Diagram: a chaotic squiggle line on the left (research & synthesis) becoming straighter and more coherent (concept / prototype) toward a straight line on the right (clarity / focus / design)

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1. joey castillo (joeycastillo@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 02:15:27 JST joey castillo

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   @mntmn I think it's also a fetishization of the “new” and a chronic undervaluing of design that works. Even putting AI aside: if you redesigned a writer's typewriter every two or three years, they'd never get anything written. If you redesigned carpenters' table saws on the same schedule you'd see a surge in missing limbs. I'm suddenly reminded of the design squiggle diagram. Living with technology today feels like we're stuck on the left side: endless exploration, clarity always out of reach.