Category: Stories
New stories are published every Thursday on Design.blog by Automattic.
Amy Whitaker on Art Thinking: Where Creativity and Commerce Intersect
If you are making a work of art in any area of life, you are not going from a known point A to a known point B. You are inventing point B. You are creating something new—an object, a company, an idea, your life—that must make space for itself. In the act of creating that space, it changes the world, in however big or small a way.
Mitchel Resnick: Designing for Wide Walls
It’s not enough to provide a single path from low floor to high ceiling; we need to provide wide walls so that kids can explore multiple pathways from floor to ceiling.
Alice Rawsthorn on Design and Choice
Choice will be a defining element of design in the future. As our personal identities become subtler and more singular, we will wish to make increasingly nuanced choices about the design of many aspects of our lives. We will also have more of the technological tools required to do so. Yet design practise will need to change radically to deliver those choices.
Above All Else, Authenticity: Cassidy Blackwell on Designing for the Individual
To repress what makes us unique is to artificially constrain all the potential we have to offer.
Jessica Helfand: Design and Precedent
Earlier this summer, an internet gimmick surfaced on social media where people randomly posted their first seven jobs. Implicitly, this meant that you had to be old enough to have held seven jobs in the […]
