“Christine Rosen notes, “You cannot ‘coshape’ an environment” — particularly a painstakingly engineered, shrewdly financed, algorithmically-tuned, master-planned environment — “designed by others to prevent you from influencing it.”” – Instrumental City: The View from New York’s Hudson Yards, circa 2019
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“In the 1990s, after many years of studying patients with brain damage, the neuroscientist Antonio Damasio put forward a hypothesis that is now widely accepted: In a healthy brain, emotional input is a crucial part of reasoning and decision making.” – Stop Saying ‘I Feel Like’
“Sometimes big data is treated as if it’s an organism. And the question is how will this organism interact with us. And we really honestly hate that. We like the idea as scientists, as activists—we are big data. We are designing big data. And the challenge is to design big data that has those positive impacts, not to wait and see.” – Your Data Footprint Is Affecting Your Life In Ways You Can’t Even Imagine
“we have a fantastic moment of opportunity where we can design our systems thoughtfully and critically, with an eye not just to functionality, but to the kinds of relationships they establish with the humans who interact with them.” – Our friends, the bots? — Data & Society: Points
“Here are a few questions to consider as you design your bots. They are by no means comprehensive, but point to the kind of thinking that is necessary in order to create nuanced systems that afford satisfying experiences.” – Our friends, the bots? — Data & Society: Points
“By designing with the disabled in mind, we can create products that are better for everyone else.” – Microsoft’s Radical Bet On A New Type Of Design Thinking
“Disability is an engine of innovation simply because no matter what their limitations, humans have such a relentless drive to communicate that they’ll invent new ways to do so, in spite of everything.” – Microsoft’s Radical Bet On A New Type Of Design Thinking
“switching from stars to hearts demonstrably works! Or it did three years ago, at least, for Airbnb, which according to a Fast Company report saw engagement climb 30 percent after a similar star-to-heart transition.” – Twitter’s Biggest Problem? Its Flawed Design