Design & Critical Thinking

D&CT aims to build shared understanding, collective knowledge & sensemaking through a community of professionals from different backgrounds. @KevinRichard_CH

[Vy ⚡ Alechnavicius @va_experience]

I'm on a lookout for 2 engineering managers. Tech for good. Pets, people, planet. Fully remote in UK. https://t.co/bUeF1gAI2R

[Kevin RICHARD @KevinRichard_CH]

“When will the realization come that design isn't fading away, but the very meaning we attach to it does?” - State of Design CfP

https://t.co/sQVCqnfwq9

[Vinish Garg 🎗 @vingar]

'Design & Critical Thinking' has an open call for participation—"State of design 2025".

Interesting themes for this year—broad, deep, and thought-inspiring.

https://t.co/8jLkQlh8dO

PS: I contributed to it in 2024 (link) it was a joy. h/t @KevinRichard_CH

[Vy ⚡ Alechnavicius @va_experience]

What a remarkable year 2024 was. I had the privilege of diving deep with visionary research and design leaders who are reshaping our industry. Each episode unearthed fascinating insights on innovation, user experience, and the future of design.

Incredibly grateful to have explored the minds of these brilliant change-makers, whose perspectives continue to inspire and challenge our thinking about design's role in shaping tomorrow.

[Vinish Garg 🎗 @vingar]

Mindful and Emotional Interfaces: Imagining a future of human-machine interactions—“Stories are prototypes of potential near futures, drawing likely connections between unevenly distributed weak signals.” @KevinRichard_CH https://t.co/PyQDq56HRw

[Vy ⚡ Alechnavicius @va_experience]

Mindful and Emotional Interfaces: Imagining a future of human-machine interactions via @KevinRichard_CH https://t.co/v2iJNm5kk8

[Vy ⚡ Alechnavicius @va_experience]

"It is like being paid to write in sand. Even if our words could make a dent, we wouldn’t ever be able to recognise it." Fascinating piece on the Guardian about people contributing and outworking themselves out of their own job (pertinent to all in at CH not just writing) via @KevinRichard_CH https://t.co/L0BPJBH4Xs

[Vy ⚡ Alechnavicius @va_experience]

Recovering lost design direction:
"The premise of A Sense of Rebellion is that this is one of the most important alternative digital tech directions that no one has heard of" via @KevinRichard_CH https://t.co/W8W73IYUx5

[Kevin RICHARD @KevinRichard_CH]

Design Sociology and New Materialism philosophy

#design has a granularity issue, and why we need to move towards a new design #philosophy & #practice. 👇👇👇

https://t.co/VA8cvCDvgl

[Vy ⚡ Alechnavicius @va_experience]

"Benchmarks used to rank AI models are several years old, often sourced from amateur websites, and, experts worry, lending automated systems a dubious sense of authority" https://t.co/KCpkXSTkJ8 via @KevinRichard_CH

[Vy ⚡ Alechnavicius @va_experience]

The future of yesterday. Websim AI for Win95 apps via @KevinRichard_CH https://t.co/FKAxG86lCy

[Nathan A Curtis @nathanacurtis]

I'm starting to play with the Specs plugin outputting the component specs as data, commensurate with what you see visually.
The refactor to do this well is effortful, and I wonder how valuable folks would find this...

[Vy ⚡ Alechnavicius @va_experience]

Abrassive but sobering read on the widespread and blind adoption of gen AI...

"Most organizations cannot ship the most basic applications imaginable with any consistency, and you're out here saying that the best way to remain competitive is to roll out experimental technology that is an order of magnitude more sophisticated than anything else your I.T department runs, which you have no experience hiring for, when the organization has never used a GPU for anything other than junior engineers playing video games with their camera off during standup, and even if you do that all right there is a chance that the problem is simply unsolvable due to the characteristics of your data and business?

This isn't a recipe for disaster, it's a cookbook for someone looking to prepare a twelve-course fucking catastrophe."

via @KevinRichard_CH
https://t.co/qhCWsnWgDr

[Marcus Bösch @m_boesch]

Here is a term that finally encapsulates all recent phenomena i have been interested in. A thread

[Dan Hill @cityofsound]

Themes at @MSDSocial include integrating architecture and construction via hands-on understanding of embodied carbon, moving from carbon calculators to hand-made adobe bricks, in context of Rwandan social infrastructure (Studio leaders: Francesco Stassi + Secil Taskoparan)

[giulio quaggiotto @gquaggiotto]

At @2121DESIGNSIGHT, an exhibition dedicated to prototyping for discovery and innovation https://t.co/RYhwS36iJv

[Dan Hill @cityofsound]

"A building that had to be erected quickly and which could also be taken down within ten years: the criteria for the Rigot Collective Dwelling Centre, a two-building complex providing housing for 370 refugees in Rigot Park in Geneva, Switzerland" https://t.co/05lUX924Dy

[Design & Critical Thinking @SkepticalDesign]

Web Designing, Architecting, AI-ing, by @jisifu
https://t.co/QITNf46DLu

#design #designers #ux #uxdesign #productdesign #webdesign #servicedesign #ethicaldesign

[Design & Critical Thinking @SkepticalDesign]

“Attention is a valuable scarce resource to the user; but to the provider, it is a commodity that serves as the platform to alienate, isolate and rectify an individual and transmute it into a unit of exchange
This is the sad current state of UX today.”
https://t.co/QITNf46DLu

[Vy ⚡ Alechnavicius @va_experience]

"What if designers could evolve from just pleading for someone in a boardroom to notice the value of design, to becoming initiators of projects that demonstrate design's impact?" and other interesting thoughts on tackling design stuck in a perma-crisis mode: https://t.co/lZVHSkmRsn