Digital Undercurrents
Questions and distributions: an exploration of important personal topics, problems, and debates, and the act of issuing materials into the world. A removable cartridge or disk, each idea functions as portable storage—something that can be inserted into different contexts, carrying structures of perception the way a color wheel carries relationships between hues. Systems appear when engaged and dissolve when removed. The judgement of the eye may be checked by the hand; perception invites verification. Some assembly may be required.
A collection of evolving notes—exploratory, loosely linked, and unconcerned with chronology. Thoughts are published mid-process, expandable and provisional, with additional materials added over time. Less polished than a traditional personal website, it operates as working media: removable, revisable, and in circulation.
Design Finally Has a Solution to the Global Financial Crisis: More Design Thinking
Late last year, management consultancy company McKinsey & Company published a widely read report extolling the business value of design. Now digital product design platform InVision has followed suit with a design and business report of its own. McKinsey’s tracks the design practices of 300 publicly listed companies (in the fields of physical goods, digital products, and services) over a period of five years; InVision’s takes a broader view, covering 24 industries and 2,200 companies in 77 countries. Both came to similar conclusions: businesses that invest in design are likely to increase revenue and shareholder returns at nearly twice the rate of their competitors—but only if design is really integrated into the core of the work, from top to bottom.