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Being Designerly 104 turns 4! It still has curated content to boost your creative mindset. This issue has designerly content about AI art, getting good feedback, field work, most innovative countries visualization, de-siloing design, Don Norman's take on Apple design, and FTC's "Click-to-cancel" rule
CREATIVITY
AI art: The end of creativity or the start of a new movement?
Artificial intelligence is being used to generate paintings, images and even sculptures, with some selling for thousands of dollars. Do we need to reframe our definition of creativity & art?
bbc.com
CURIOSITY
How to get really good feedback
As a designer, it is your job to figure out how to get the useful feedback you need to do your work. This includes feedback from peers, leaders, fellow designers, engineers, customers, anyone. If you don’t take ownership of feedback you will be a feedback victim.
substack.com
EMPATHY
Home Depot Plans to Make Every Employee, Including Executives, Work in Stores. It's an Absolutely Brilliant Move
In a recent memo to employees obtained by Bloomberg, Home Depot announced that all employees—including executives—will have to work a full eight-hour shift in a store once per quarter. This is brilliant, and how all businesses should operate when the core functions of the business differ substantially from the corporate office.
inc.com
VISUAL
Visualization: The World’s Most Innovative Countries in 2024
For the 14th consecutive year, Switzerland was named the world’s most innovative country. Read on to see how other other countries were rated...
visualcapitalist.com
COLLABORATE
De-Siloing Design: McCann Reimagines Collaboration in the Creative Process
In today’s rapidly evolving creative landscape, the importance of collaborative teams and de-siloing design departments is becoming increasingly clear. As agencies seek to break down barriers between creative, strategy, and design, the role of design has shifted from a final aesthetic touch to a core driver of the entire process.
printmag.com
UX
Don Norman: ‘Apple has fallen prey to the most disastrous part of design, which thinks it’s about making something beautiful and elegant’
Norman: "Sure, I want it to be attractive and I want it to be nice, but more important than anything else is that I know I can use it freely and that it’s easy to learn and that it doesn’t keep changing. Apple believes that words are ugly, they try not to use them, and you have to memorize all these gestures, up and down, left and right, one finger, two fingers, three fingers, one tap, two taps, a long tap, starting from the top of screen, the middle of the screen. Who can remember that?”
elpais.com
TOPICAL
"Click-to-cancel" subscriptions rule finalized by FTC
The Federal Trade Commission recently released a final rule called "click to cancel," which says online subscriptions should require the same number of clicks to end as they do to sign up. Good for us!
npr.org
Industry groups are suing the FTC to stop its click to cancel rule
Didn't take long - that article above about the Federal Trade Commission saying online subscriptions should require the same number of clicks to end as they do to sign up? Industry groups are suing to not let that happen... Bad for us!
theverge.com
