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We're engaged in a major IA redesign effort at Tailscale and as part of that I've been refreshing what we know about information architecture design.

The future can exist only in terms of events.

The brilliant Nichol Bradford (from the Transformative Tech Lab) invited people online to name the current moment.

Here's an example of why it's important to be present in the actual environments where users use your product.

Here follow some propositions making parallels between the two and why there is a case for governance and politics to draw from the toolkits of user/human centered design.

Consider the following stupid machines: machine that runs into corners at high speed and yelps upon impact goes up against a person’s leg, looks up at them, and smirks same as above, but sprays water at a leg accelerates towards raised edges and falls off…

Propositions on sensibly making use of metrics when designing things: (for mathematically minded people) Axioms: Those metrics matter, which matter to the people the metrics are supposedly helping serve Those metrics matter, which represent the fitness of…

A friend forwarded me these 10 questions from an ad agency that runs a 'global scout network', soliciting opinions on '10 key elements of Culture' (to be answered, btw, in 10 minutes).

As a researcher, I create a lot of PowerPoint documents - apart from its ubiquity in the professional knowledge worker world, it has decent visual editing tools and its one-page-at-a-time format helps structure narratives and data.

Just realized if that the 6 degrees of separation hypothesis is true, someone like me is only 6 links away from my polar opposite person (e.g. a militaristic rural religious fundamentalist).

I was binge-listening to that most fabulous of design podcasts, 99% invisible, and came across this analysis of San Francisco's flag and how terrible it is.

Having spent nearly a year in San Francisco as a resident, I started talking with my friend Purva, a long-term San Franciscan, about the difference between her understanding of the city and mine.