A couple of good design articles I recently read. Transforming the world: by design “Look at landfill sites,” says Pepijn Zurburg, co-founder of Dutch nonprofit What Design Can Do. “At one point, someone designed all that trash that’s in them. Everything that we made eventually ends up being a problem for us. Pepijn Zurburg and Richard van der Laken started a one-day conference, inviting experts to talk about how purpose drives design. Their inspiration: redesign everything. Read Tran...| Design & other obsessions by Silvia Maggi
Of the few articles I read the past couple of months, the most memorable are about smartphones use and the ways modern tech can make us miserable. The smartphone kids are not all right So it’s not until 2010–2011 that you have this thing in your pocket, which is not a digital Swiss Army knife that you pull out when you need something. It is now a portal that millions—millions—of companies now can use to get to you, as a child. Without your parents’ permission or knowledge, they can ...| Design & other obsessions by Silvia Maggi
This issue marks the beginning of a different type of series, where I mostly share blog posts from people writing on their personal websites. Digital design is conflicted UX is conflicted. I’m conflicted. I’m conflicted between pushing to go fast and fighting to slow down. I’m caught between fixing things and breaking things. I’m forced to compromise between caring and causing harm. James Royal-Lawson wrote an essay I wholly support. In it, he describes the many conflicts designers ar...| Design & other obsessions by Silvia Maggi