Metaphor and Transformation in the Interface
The way metaphor permeates the interface points to a continued struggle to live with the complexity introduced by the very media we’ve created to manage it.
Theory
Design at its intersections with sociology, philosophy, and cognition.
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☕️ Doubleshot • Reframing Design Rationale
The first doubleshot newsletter, with practical advice on reframing your design rationale and a bit about the theory of metaphor in the interface.
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📚 Read This: Jarrett Fuller on Simple Tools
The irony of recommending this essay on Interface Café, which is hosted on Ghost, a CMS platform, is not lost on me.
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📚 Read This: “What Things Do” by Peter-Paul Verbeek
A quick book recommendation: What Things Do, Philosophical Reflections on Technology, Agency, and Design by contemporary philosopher of technology Peter-Paul
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Reshaping our expectations for generative design
From Le Corbusier to Figma, “design is, at its core, a permanently subject-oriented discipline.”
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View Counts and the Detotalization of Social Media
On an infinitely scrolling, algorithmically generated list, scrolling past something is about the least intentional thing one could do.
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The Future of Design is Still Personal
Connecting historic conceptions of adaptable design with contemporary visions, looking toward a truly adaptive future.
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Experiencing the next mutation: user characteristics, defining success, and a new way to research mutative patterns
I’ve talked to designers, developers, users, coworkers, and strangers about the theory and the practice behind mutative design and Selene’s nascent mutations.
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Mutate More: Digging Deeper Into UI That Evolves With the User
Project Phoebe Phase 2: Dynamic contrast, and a mutative engine.
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Meet Project Phoebe: A Moonshot Concept for Mutative Design
Design shouldn’t just adapt to screen size. Context isn’t all about adding more information.