What if tech has plateaued, out of sheer ubiquity? What if that’s okay? What does “okay” look like?
What if there is no “next best thing?”
What if AI really is just great for transcription & shitposting?
What if tech is just something we all do in the background of the rest of our lives, rather than the focus of our lives?
What are the specific contours of tech’s impact in areas of the world that we don’t commonly hear from?
Why is design so concerned with its own irrelevance?
How has the role of design changed now that everyone is able to make design decisions?
What would satisfy the design industry to the extent that it would feel comfortable stepping into its own power & authority as a continuous practice?
This week, for paid members
- Our weekly paid lesson goes beyond Google’s structural abandonment of value-based design to cover other tools that might be useful for us going forward.
- Our design of the week covers the most interesting size guide we’ve seen in a buy box. Fun!
- Our fortnightly teardown is for fragrance brand Maison Louis Marie.
- Finally, our monthly office hours are scheduled for today at 1p CDT. Join us!
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Links
- NN/g talks about important terms in quantitative value-based design.
- How to talk about the problem with no name.
- On selling design. Design supports business, right?
- A necessary essay on the current structural role of design. Mentorship will probably remain fundamentally broken for the rest of my career; it has moved from nonexistent to low quality in the span of 20 years. But design writ large still needs to confront itself and the damage it’s done to culture & our planet. Lots of good questions being asked in here.