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To those that present themselves as great thinkers by using complex & important sounding ideas:
"Don't mistake scale for importance or ambition for significance"
"The ordinary is the extraordinary" - Wang Xiangzhai
"Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication" - Da Vinci
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The Sigil of Lucifer VS Google Playstore Logo
The Google Gmail logo VS the Masonic Apron symbol
The Google G logo VS the Masonic G inside the Square and Compasses Logo
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Especially when dealing with shinny new technological tools/toys, today's systems designers tend to neglect doing a thorough and honest Cost-Benefit Analysis. The "Anything that can be done, must be done" philosophy is highly wasteful and destructive.
#Design #Economics #Technology #Infrastructure #Philosophy #Comment #Ideas
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Great advice: "Don't mistake scale for importance or ambition for significance. "
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Emoji People
Many science papers have been written about Emoji's (such as "Dark side of a smiley - Effects of Smiling Emoticons on Virtual First Impressions") researching level of competency & trustworthiness of people that heavily communicate with Emoji. TL;DR? 💩💩💩
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Mindful Digital Experiences?
There are countless sites/apps online (hello twitter) that entice people to endlessly scroll - resulting in mental fatigue, emotional numbness and stress.What sites/apps that you often use have the opposite effects on you? I'm genuinely curious!
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Illustrations from the presentation "Why are they not on the paper?" - by Mafalda Gamboa
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"We build our computer systems the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins." - Ellen Ullman.
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The Gospel of A.I Tool Makers
The promise of A.I tool makers: "Use our hyper complex machine, you don't own or understand, that reduces agency & disrupts everything & your life will improve, maybe"
What many want: "A simply tool i understand & enjoy, that will improve my life today, with minimal disruption"
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Interesting thread on organizational blindness in tech product development
Comment: Likewise, the entire technology sector has massive hypocrisies and dark Blindspots, that are obvious but nobody is allowed to mention.
"All engineering projects develop their own cultures over time" - Comment: Very true. In my experience, teams that are dominated by engineers tend to develop (subconscious) hostility towards all non-engineers, including their own customers (which they call users, akin to drug user)
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Slide from a presentation i gave in 2019 at the Helsinki design week, on "life centered design"
