Designers for the 21st Century Design for This Century throws out a bunch of fascinating ideas you want to dig in, among which are surveillance capitalism, ontological design, cyborg manifesto, decentralized storytelling, civic service design, anthropocene backloop, and cosmopolitics. Some are weird, but isn’t that exactly why you are curious to know more? The conclusion…
Month: March 2021
Weekly Learning: The Gaming Edition
A Game That Plays People A Game Designer’s Analysis Of QAnon is a mind-blowing dissection of the notorious QAnon phenomenon. At the core is the idea of “apophenia”: Apophenia is : “the tendency to perceive a connection or meaningful pattern between unrelated or random things (such as objects or ideas)” And what happens in the…
Power and Rights
In more cases than we’d like to imagine, it’s good people with good intentions end up doing bad things. Most of us intuitively know what power is about, just like we intuitively know what design is about. However, knowing is not the same as understanding. The former is about what, the latter informs how. Our…
Why Your Org Can’t Succeed at Digital Transformation
Digital transformation urges a transfer of power that powerful people never intend to do. If digital transformation is really as awesome and game-changing as some claim or agree with, then we’d expect it to be so much more than adopting digital technologies without deep impact on the purpose, culture, structure, process, and function of an…
Weekly Learning: Design Methods, Research, Blockchain, and Original Sin
Much Ado About Methods Enough Design Methods provides a spearing critic to our obsession with methods. “We seem to be more focused on pseudo-scientific, quick paths to shallow solutions, rather than an immersive depth of creative craft.” Firstly, there is a reason for that obsession: Methods reinforce that we are in control and can tame…
The Road to Transformable Enterprise: Reflective Conversations on Writing and More
NOTE: The following post is a conversation between Andrey Milchman and Noah Fang, long-time collaborators and authors, on their new book, The Transformable Enterprise: Enterprise Architecture in a New Key, which “challenges current enterprise architecture practices, which are mostly inspired by engineers seeking freedom from constraints of science, art, and architecture in both structure and…
Weekly Learning: The Future Issue
Synthetic Realities Deepfake and blockchain are twins. But unlike blockchain, deepfake is not something new. Synthetic realities have been existed for a very, very long time. Andy Polaine’s iconic post, Design in the age of synthetic realities tells fascinating stories of how “AI-generated and mixed realities are blurring the boundaries of “truth” and challenging how…
Weekly Learning: New Power, New Design, Persuasion Tricks, and the Inclusion Illusion
News and the New Power Facebook got everything it wanted out of Australia by being willing to do what the other guy wouldn’t gives you yet another instance of the challenges the establishment is facing in coping with the internet age’s unforeseeable consequences. Just for the sake of the fascinating analogy used, you should read…
