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@designcouncil highlights the ways we can take everything we have learned from designing for accessibility and broaden this to design for inclusivity so services can be used safely, easily and with dignity by all https://t.co/83dRZpXmMe #inclusivedesign #socinn #smartcities

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Would you pin a mission-critical part of your company on the back of a fast-moving, volatile company? It's the dilemma facing start-ups like Ulockd and Stackla whose offers rely on integration with Google and Facebook https://t.co/ISwNilyACc #disruption #startups #FANG

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As part of a new wave of Digital Wellbeing Experiments, @Google commissioned London design studio @special_proj to develop Paper Phone to better understand phone addiction and detoxing https://t.co/TMobJKVIqK via @FastCoDesign #wellbeing #digitaldetox #ux

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Challenges around renewables are prompting players in the “traditional” energy sector to collaborate on open source software they can modify to address their changing needs https://t.co/gXN1CsmJFA via @WIRED #circulareconomy #sustainability #transitiondesign #sysdes

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A timely piece from @TheAtlantic on Jeff Bezos’s master plan:
what the @amazon founder and CEO wants for his empire and himself, and what that means for the rest of us https://t.co/cWZlLiPZcZ #leadership #platforms #digitalstrategy

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Is designing for Instagram hurting design? Are we creating beautiful, functional spaces - or merely social-media-friendly content? https://t.co/mCHcbMdV8C via @FastCoDesign #smartcities #urbandesign #ux #socialmedia

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@bhp is replacing talk of 'social licence' with talk of 'social value', as it faces up to the existential risk that climate mitigation and adaptation pose to its business. A sign of the times? https://t.co/DCvhnhNvVb via @FinancialReview #socinn #transitiondesign #sustainability

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Nir Eyal, who wrote the industry manual for hooking people on tech, now has a recipe to free you. So, has he turned a corner or is he simply playing both sides? https://t.co/uSW0kPsT8W via @nytimes #ux #design #techdetox #darkpatterns

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Nicolas Valencia explores how automation and artificial intelligence will impact architecture and design, including how the discipline will undergo profound transformations https://t.co/5uO3ysBbGh via @ArchDaily #ai #automation #designfutures #architecture

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It's counterintuitive to think that innovation makes technological comebacks possible, but in the case of vinyl records that's exactly what's happened https://t.co/4aGdivpMfp via @ConversationUK #disruption #vinylrevival #oldisnew

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This piece on gender equality by Melinda Gates contains three principles that can extend to all inclusive design efforts: keep dismantling barriers, fast-tracking advancement, and amplifying external pressure https://t.co/YVVXcj84m9 #genderequality #inclusivedesign #designethics

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Love this redesign of inflight service to address waste by @Priestmangoode - "If we want to effect real change in the travel industry, we need to rethink products, services, and behavior" on the supply and the demand sides https://t.co/RfC6h94IxF #circulareconomy #socinn

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The reinvention of experience is supreme in the 21st century, but it can only reach its potential when liberated from its current limitations of catering solely to the individual user https://t.co/cfFPujDPB2 via @FastCompany #socinn #hcd #ux #ui

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A thoughtful report from @designcouncil and @SCIE_socialcare calling for an approach to health, housing and care systems to help people to live independently as they age https://t.co/vaEbk1MRV3 #inclusivedesign #urbandesign #hcd

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Assessing the stalled WeWork IPO - "The solution here is not exotic: Lower valuations, tighter margins, and expansion plans whose costs don’t resemble a land war in Asia. Not a venture-capital-backed hallucination. A business." https://t.co/A6zkwsWqhO #vc #startup #unicorns

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Crafting arguments or telling stories is critical to both clarify our thoughts and persuade others. How many of these six rhetorical techniques have you used recently to persuade others? https://t.co/SjxHeRQPiO by @bespokespeeches via @TEDTalks #stories #persuasion #leadwell

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"Physicists tend to treat quantum mechanics like a mindless robot they rely on to perform certain tasks, not as a beloved family member they care about on a personal level." A provocative interview with physicist Sean Carroll https://t.co/yrVXmelywF #quantumcomputing #manyworlds

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What do you do when waterfall principles sneak back into agile workflows? For a start, refocus conversations on outcomes, not reports https://t.co/p4d0tlLz4t via @HarvardBiz #agilefall #agile #lean #leadwell

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Love this summary of Gareth Morgan's eight metaphors for organisations - it's so useful for going beyond the, now clichéd, "we're an organism, not a machine" conversations with leaders https://t.co/eRA91713z9 via @WorkNOBL #leadwell #orgmetaphors #sysdesign

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In the era of Big Data, we’ve come to believe that, with enough information, human behavior is predictable. But number crunching can lead us perilously wrong https://t.co/DkpOL7T4cK via @NewYorker #bigdata #socialphysics #ux #hcd