Designs for the pluriverse: radical interdependence, autonomy, and the making of worlds
"Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory by arguing for the creation of what he calls 'autonomous design'--a design practice aimed at channeling design's world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attuned to justice and the Earth"--Publisher description
On Design Thinking | Maggie Gram
By embracing “design thinking,” we attribute to design a kind of superior epistemology: a way of knowing, of “solving,” that is better than the old and local and blue-collar and municipal and unionized and customary ways. We bring in “design thinkers” — some of them designers by trade, many of them members of adjacent knowledge fields — to “empathize” with Kaiser hospital nurses, Gainesville city workers, church leaders, young mothers, and guerrilla fighters the world over.
Tynan Purdy
A design thinker and builder bringing rigor and craft to strategy and products.
Tynan Purdy
A design thinker and builder bringing rigor and craft to strategy and products.
Fundamental design principles for non-designers
By Anna 4erepawko Mészáros This one is for all the content creators out there who can’t afford to pay a professional designer, as well as for non-designers on a team where designers are always too busy to help. If you can follow these simple steps, I...
The Politics of Design: A (Not So) Global Design Manual for Visual Communication
A (Not So) Global Design Manual for Visual Communication
Product Design Psychology by Wouter de Bres
Understand the minds you design for and the mind you design with.
LukeW | The Convergence of Design
After seeing lots of posts over the years arguing that design has become homogenized, I decided to pull together historical and modern designs for a few differe...
Read the Principles — Design Justice Network
Design mediates so much of our realities and has tremendous impact on our lives, yet very few of us participate in design processes. In particular, the people who are most adversely affected by design decisions — about visual culture, new technologies, the planning of our communities, or the structure of our political and economic systems — tend to have the least influence on those decisions and how they are made.
Thoughts and Feelings around Claude Design · Sam Henri Gold
I tried Claude Design yesterday and I have a theory for how this whole thing shakes out.
Gergely Orosz on Twitter / X
What can us, engineers else learn from designers and design engineers? Turns out there’s lots, based on talking with one of the best design engineers in the industry, @Mappletons.Timestamps:00:00 Intro03:24 From anthropology to tech10:18 What does a designer do?18:23 How… pic.twitter.com/wFlNLnUdTI— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) September 23, 2026
design thingies
Design Harder by Erik Carter / Interactive Version
Imperfection – mamuso.dev
ribo.zone
Abdelrahman's playground
Bao To - Design Engineer & Product Maker
Ping! Talks on Talking Machines