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Web Designing, Architecting, AI-ing, by Matt Ji

Third article in The State of Design, a collection of perspectives

10 min read3 days ago

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“don’t replace me, I’m a designer”

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The Evolving Landscape of Design in 2024, by Linh Nguyen

Second article in The State of Design, a collection of perspectives

7 min read4 days ago

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The evolving role of UX designers in 2024 and beyond — Generated with DALL·E

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Of Permacrisis and Peak Design, by Marc Baumgartner

First article in The State of Design, a collection of perspectives

9 min read6 days ago

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Land of perpetual crisis. (Generated in Adobe Firefly)

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Call for participation: State of Design

We are looking for members to participate in the article

4 min readMar 22, 2024

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Angel designers falling from the sky while below rise the demons of capitalism from hell — Generated with playground.com

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Kevin Richard

A critical look at “The vanishing designer”

The article says more about the state of the profession than it intended to do.

9 min readNov 14, 2023

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$Ripple effects and fractal patterns$

$Ripple effects and fractal patterns$

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Systems Thinking in design is (sometimes) Systems-washing

A short critical analysis of “What’s the Point of AI without Design and Systems Thinking? ”

8 min readOct 24, 2023

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Detergent poured into a washing machine as a metaphor for how systems thinking is often treated in design circles

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What can designers learn from SolarPunk?

SolarPunk is relevant to designers for its optimistic hybridisation and a sense of “finding back a form of purpose and meaning”. Let’s…

23 min readOct 20, 2023

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A solarpunk green landscape with a futuristic city on the horizon, from the video “Dear Alice”

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Why “Eastern & Western Design — How Culture Rewires The Brain” is wrong

This post is a short critical response to the video titled “Eastern & Western Design — How Culture Rewires The Brain” by the channel…

4 min readOct 16, 2023

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A screenshot of John Mauriello talking to the camera during the video “How Culture Rewires The Brain”

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SolarPunk-inspired design principles

As we saw in the previous articles, SolarPunk narratives and therefore the ontologies that support them are nuanced and diverse.

7 min readOct 14, 2023

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A solarpunk green landscape with a futuristic city on the horizon, from the video “Dear Alice”

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A topology of SolarPunk stories and resources — Part 3

The landscape of SolarPunk narratives is interesting to observe. The categorisation that follows is my understanding through my own…

6 min readOct 13, 2023

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A topology of SolarPunk stories and resources — Part 3

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Kevin Richard

Kevin Richard

Senior Designer & Strategist in the🇨🇭Banking industry. Critical / UX / Design / Systems / Complexity thinker, learner, practitioner.

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