50. “look at the similarities shared between artists and scientists”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=75&v=ilFAjSMQFEM
51.
52. Paperback
ISBN: 9780262526708
296 pp. | 6 in x 9 in
102 figures
August 2014
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/design-way-second-edition
https://medium.com/@estolter
66. Wikipedians
Currently 37,309,540 registered users,
only a minority contribute regularly:
130,700 have edited in the last 30 days.
The vast majority are young, college-
educated males.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedi
a:Wikipedians
Currently, out of the 5,944,232 articles
on Wikipedia, 30,227 are categorized as
good articles -about 1 in 197.
67. https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/8/20793793/uber-5-billion-quarter-loss-profit-lyft-traffic-2019
• The ride-hailing giant reported
losing a whopping $5.2 billion
in the last three months. No,
there isn’t dirt on your screen.
That’s billion with a “b.”
• None of the ride-sharing
companies around the world are
profitable. And none of them can
convincingly articulate a path to
profitability aside from vague
references to improving the
bottom line and reining in ride
subsidies and driver incentives.
68. • Michael Barbaro
• So for the super-wealthy early investors, it isn’t necessarily a problem that Uber has
never made money. Those investors did make a huge amount of money from the I.P.O.
And I wonder if you think that that fact, that reality of how things work out there in
Silicon Valley, has contributed to the kind of growth that Uber experienced, which was
this kind of heedless, subsidized investment into profitability that never materialized?
• Mike Isaac
• Yes, that’s common out here. And I think that’s just going to continue occurring,
because that’s how the model works.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/29/podcasts/the-daily/uber-profit.html
69. Founded in 2003 by then-19-year-old Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos raised more than US$700 million from
venture capitalists and private investors, resulting in a $10 billion valuation at its peak in 2013 and 2014.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos Listen to: https://abcaudio.com/podcasts/the-dropout/
70. “I think if we made the oath to
first do not harm as designers,
we would likely never do
anything new. I think that would
be unfortunate.”
“I would hate for designers to feel like
we can’t ever engage with something
that’s unknown, because we’re worried
about what the outcomes might be.”
71.
72. The “Silicon Valley”* tech entrepreneur
• “Visionaries”
• “Change the world”
• “Embrace failure”
• “Fake it ‘till you make it”
• “Self-made”
• “Innovation”
•Greed and delusion
•Media business model
•Hype, viral feedback loops
•Naïve, uncritical public
•Outdated regulations
•Techno-determinism
* not exclusive to Palo Alto
74. http://www.designdriveninnovation.com/
http://www.theeducationist.info/paulo-freires-pedagogy-oppressed-book-summary/
Definitions of “Innovation”:
1. Business: “Companies are ranked… on the educated
hunch that the company will continue to come up with
profitable new growth i.
2. Technology: “We reserve the superlative title of innovator
for those bright few who have transcended the
traditional labels of engineer, scientist, or inventor” ii.
3. Design: “To radically change the meaning of the
experience customers have when they use an offering iii.
4. Humanities: To transform the socio-technical structures of
power that impede the development or fulfilment of
one's potential (self-realisation) iv.
i) https://www.forbes.com/sites/innovatorsdna/2018/05/29/how-we-rank-the-most-innovative-companies-2018/#65d739131e3c
ii) https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/silicon-revolution/innovation-magazine-and-the-birth-of-a-buzzword
iii) https://hbr.org/2011/10/designing-breakthrough-products
iv) http://www.theeducationist.info/paulo-freires-pedagogy-oppressed-book-summary/
75. The goal of design is to make the world better
80. “Humans need to be acknowledged as
being more complex than marketing’s
notion of consumers” (and design’s notion
of users)
Design for Transitions - from and to what?
Cameron Tonkinwise