Machine learning, who to trust, additive writing
At MicroConf this past week, someone remarked to me that I tend to write books as a way of marking the ends of eras – implying that Store Design’s release happening at the same time as our repositioning isn’t really an accident.
I don’t know if this is true! I feel like the books are more accretive. I had to write Cadence & Slang I’m still talking about value-based design in everything I do. What happens is that the work discussed in our books becomes additive to the practice. One expands the practice to encompass new work;
Applied here, our prior work on stores is going to infuse our whole design process when we work for more structurally nourishing industries. The Draft Method, devised between 2019 and now, isn’t going away – or even changing much.
What is happening is a comprehensive shift in who we serve, and how we serve them. And we’re doing that with everything we’ve learned & shared over the past 17 years. MicroConf taught me a lot about how we must move. And for now, that must be enough.
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- Our weekly lesson is all about who to trust in contemporary ecommerce. Hint: it’s not where most people look.
- And finally, our design of the week takes note of a rather interesting pull-down.
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- This is objectively correct. If any stakeholders claim that machine learning is an appropriate replacement for value-based design activity, leave.
- Speaking of machine learning, most pieces on this topic are bad, but when Don Norman speaks, one pays attention.
- Visualizing colorblindness.