Going to print on prototype 1! 🖨️

Meet Rafael, Rapid.

The prevailing mood amongst product designers right now is - Annoyed - Bored - Considering leaving the profession The current mood is putting off a lot of young designers from entering the industry and pushing existing designers out. What do we do?

A snippet of my work, and collected readings, sightings and watchings.... russbrown.design/basement-files…

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Reading Walking as InactivityCommonplace Newsletter #115The CommonplaceThomas J BevanEnterprise Philosophy and The First Wave of AIThe first wave of successful AI implementations will probably look more like the first wave of computing, which was dominated by large-scale enterprise installations that eliminated jobs. Consumer …Stratechery by Ben ThompsonBen ThompsonInventor of the

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Every good designer is part artist, part scientist. A sensitivity for the emotional feel of a product Combined with the curiosity to solve complex problems.

Two methods I use when working through a problem: Go Wide - the scouting mission. Go Deep - more like map making. Going wide is useful for early exploration, going deep is much more useful later on when ideas are more solid.