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Some rambling thoughts on our tendency to intervene 💊 Has anyone seen a design case study where subtraction was the focus? marcastbury.com/intervention-g…
Intervention ≠ good - Marc Astbury
Michel de Montaigne, in his ‘Essays,’ recounts the story of a friend who fell sick. Despite consulting doctors and trying different treatments, nothing worked. Resigned to his fate, the friend finally gave up all treatments and stopped eating. Surprisingly, this led to an improvement in his health. This incident illustrates the concept of ‘improvement through […]
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Had this collection of notes/ thoughts about prototyping in obsidian for a while. Tried to polish it up as a post🪴 Curious to hear what value you place on prototyping? How do you frame it? What value does it deliver? marcastbury.com/wtf-is-prototy…
WTF is Prototyping? - Marc Astbury
After speaking to PM’s and designers over the holidays I was surprised to learn how scarcely prototyping is used in product development. Of my small sample size (+/- 10 people) only 1 designer regularly prototyped before sending a design ‘over the wall’ to engineers. Note: For scoping this post, ‘prototype’ will simply refer to an […]
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I usually keep annual reviews private but seeing as I’m trying to work with the garage door up, here is 2023’s 🎉 marcastbury.com/annual-review-…
Who else is interested in discussing Christopher Alexander’s ideas and contemplating how we might apply them to software design? DM open, would love to chat to people about these wonderful ideas.