#designphilosophy

Mr Tech Kingmrtechking
2025-05-09

Jony Ive reflects on Silicon Valley's early human-centric drive, now feeling joy is missing in tech (and it's not trivial). He also shared how tiny design details impact millions and his team's weekly breakfast bonding.

Jony Ive Shares Apple Design Insights and Techs Missing Joy.
2025-02-09

Why did Dieter Rams and UNIX walk into a bar? To debate aesthetics, innovation, and how many cryptic commands it takes to open a beer. Cheers to timeless design in tech and life! πŸ»πŸ€“
eliza-ng.me/post/herearetwosfr
#DesignPhilosophy

Joseph Lim :mastodon:joseph11lim
2024-10-17

@HollandJim Good call!πŸ†
Am sorry to opine that, since Steve Job's passing in 2011, successive iPhone models have repeatedly failed to raise its cost-performance (or innovation..) ratio, with the latest generation being probably the worst.
The last great iPhone model, imho, that still carried the , was the black .

Sal Mediasalmediausa
2024-02-01
Reuben Walkermobileatom@me.dm
2023-05-15

Here's a good web design resource -> Utopia: Fluid responsive design. utopia.fyi/ #WebDesign #DesignPhilosophy

Utopia logo
2023-04-13

Like, in my opinion, our particular media of data, light, attention would require developing an instinct about how information flows from computer to computer [data], to display on an interface that takes advantage of quantum sorcery [light] to render as information that a human brain [attention] can attempt to parse.

Willgasple
2023-02-09

Design is not just about aesthetics, it's about creating experiences for people. People ignore design that ignores people - a wise words by Frank Chimero πŸ’‘

Karsten Schmidttoxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2023-02-05

Excuse me for waxing poetically a little about some #ThingUmbrella #DesignPhilosophy... πŸ˜… But since questions about it do come up fairly regularly and the design does somewhat seem divergent from (dare I say) the majority of other JS tooling in the frontend dev domain, I'd like to quote (as a clarification) what I just wrote in some GH issue:

"As for the auto-tracking & 'everything reactive by default' - that's exactly why all of these other tools require their enterprise-scale elaborate/complex pre-processing/transpilation tooling, something I've been strictly & fundamentally avoiding with all projects in this repo. In thi.ng/rdom, there's no "magic" reactivity or any form of centralized/auto-managed behind-the-scenes coordination and all reactivity and other control flow is forced to be explicit (by design). This not only provides super fine-grained control (see thi.ng/rstream & thi.ng/transducers for various reactivity/transformation building blocks), but also allows rdom to be absolutely nimble, components to be super simple, mix & match declarative/imperative updates, perform minimal updates without any need for diffing, and IMHO is just easier to reason about. I'm well aware this approach is not popular in the wider JS/frontend community, but in other language camps (e.g. #Clojure, now also #Zig) this 'no magic' and 'no hidden control flow' attitude is seen as one of the main design principles & net positives, even if it makes some parts more verbose (one can always build some cheap abstractions around that, if needed)...

As a more general comment about the design of umbrella packages: Most of the provided packages here started out as relatively low-level building blocks and basis for (slowly) building up higher level tooling/convenience layers, to experiment with different techniques & approaches. For years, I've been doing that myself, but also was always kinda hoping/relying that other people would do so too (and then maybe even share/feedback some of those results πŸ˜‰ - not so much, yet...).

This design approach & focus on composability is totally counter to the much more popular all 'batteries-included' or 'zero-conf' myths and their constant re-invention of the wheel... To me composability and reasoning is 1000% more important!"

Itamar Medeirosdesignative
2022-11-24

⁦Bruce Mau who spoke recently at , talks to ⁦⁩ about his , how he defines the role of a , why isn’t enough, and makes a case for optimism in dark times creativereview.co.uk/bruce-mau

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