Americans go to Disney Land because they’ve all been punished but can visit a walkable functioning city, as a treat
— Dan Hon
Breaking up (with) the office
The real value innovation is in separating efficiency and socialization from one, single, centralized physical space. Decoupling space from what’s happening in it effectively changes the meaning of “office.” Instead of the “office,” there is a decentralized network of offices.
— Ana Andjelic
Reminds me of Mark Charmer’s Five Kinds of Space (which has disappeared from the internet).
What is a TikTok Video?
A TikTok video shouldn’t be thought of as one piece content, but as a series of inputs to be analyzed by the platform’s artificial intelligence — the caption, the hashtag, the length of the video, the audio, the filters used, the comments, the accounts the commenters follow, the accounts you follow, etc. All of it creates branches of recommendations to offer you.
— (Garbage day, Websites are just places to talk about TikTok)
What is designing?
John Chris Jones “comprehensive definition of design”:
thoughts and actions intended to change thoughts and actions
The article is a phenomenal example of what I’m going to call “business-dude lorem ipsum.” It is filler language that is used to roleplay “thought leadership” among those who have nothing to say: the MBA version of a grade-school book report that starts with a Webster’s Dictionary definition.
Maybe grids are not always helpful?
Why do designers always talk about grids? Simple answer: they work brilliantly in print design. But the moment you have a screen that can change size, throw your grid system out the window.