May 1, 2005

“we’re all designers now”

4 Comments

Kathy Sie­rra (my future wife) wri­tes about the impor­tance of good design in terms of it actually saving your job. She com­pa­res Japa­nese and Ame­ri­can man-hole covers to illus­trate her point.
NB: She’s not really my future wife (*Sigh*).

4 Responses to ““we’re all designers now””

  1. Thom Lawrence says:
    May 1, 2005 at 10:51 am

    I love her point that “we’re all desig­ners”. Over the last few days with the tech­no­lo­gists vs cul­tu­ra­lists stuff my brain has just been screa­ming “we’re tool users — peo­ple don’t need encou­ra­ge­ment to get exci­ted about tech­no­logy, you just have to stop using it to tor­ture them.” Of course — we’re tool crea­tors too. There are no tech­ni­cal pro­blems, only oppor­tu­ni­ties! Coolness.

  2. life (over IP) says:
    May 1, 2005 at 2:14 pm

    Good idea, bad example

    Kathy Sie­rra wri­tes (via gaping­void) about the loo­ming impor­tance of design in our work lives, refe­rring to Dan Pink’s asser­tion that, since all the left-brain work is now being outsour­ced, what US wor­kers need to get is what the…

  3. Keith Handy says:
    May 1, 2005 at 4:21 pm

    You could pro­bably have a “blo­gosphere wed­ding” that wouldn’t con­flict with anything else (i.e. reality).

  4. Keith Handy says:
    May 1, 2005 at 8:04 pm

    P.S. if you have 2.5 kids, I call dibs on being the .5 (I’ve always wan­ted to be half a kid).