Almost nothing is actually designed.
Almost nothing is actually designed
7 tweets · March 2021 · 95 likes · 7 retweets · read on Twitter
I used to lament that things were so poorly designed. (I have the eye—I can't not see it. It's a gift and a curse.) But then I realized that it's much more accurate to say that most things weren't designed at all.
Even your computer, and software you use every day, that had dozens of designers supposedly working on it. Sure, some *elements* of the app were designed. But on every level of abstraction, nondesign crept in with hundreds of unquestioned assumptions.
As Jonny points out, it's unworkable to question the assumptions 1-by-1, conceptually, with logic & left-hemisphere. 🤔💭❓ But you *can* question many assumptions on many levels all at once, perceptually, with metaphor & right-hemisphere. 🤯🤩🧙♀️
For more on what I mean by that, check out my writing on Metaphor Design:
Ahhhhh this is a very good article that resets your impressions for how awesome things can be and in the process highlights how little is getting designed under ordinary circumstances. uxdesign.cc/what-would-be-…
moooooood