Design is Destruction
Making requires a lot of forward and backward movement. You make something, trash it and then start again. The next version creates new questions and the cycle continues. Fifteen iterations later you might have more questions than answers but if things are going well–you’ve learned a lot. Every step in the process is killing an assumption, a bad design or ignorance. Solutions are a compromise between time, quality, and priorities and there are no easy answers–but that’s another story. Links to the rescue.
Architecture
This origami-inspired shelter is designed for fast post-disaster housing
Unemori Architects Designs House Tokyo With a Compact Footprint
‘Home Depot architecture’: How one developer is turning farm storage into sleek apartments
Schemata Architects Designs a Modern Chalet on Powder Mountain in Utah
Web Design/UX/UI
Frustrating Design Patterns That Need Fixing: Birthday Picker
UX Design and Product Design are Twins. Why?
Is the Google UX course any good?
Design Work
PM and UX Have Markedly Different Views of Their Job Responsibilities
Before design thinking, we need design therapy
Industrial Design
The spectacular failure of One Laptop Per Child
Your sneakers are polluting the planet. Adidas and Allbirds unveil an ultra-green alternative
Technology
Quick, Draw: Can a neural network learn to recognize doodling?
Typography
How does typography behave under extreme conditions? New book Teasing Typography explores
18 of the Most Influential Typefaces and the Design History Behind Them
Random
57 Product Ideas Qualify for the First 2021 LEGO Ideas Review