10 quotes about the design future from European trend-watchers
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The design is over here not to look like something; it’s here to do something. Objects can do something ethical.
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It's not only about the relationship between a designer and a user, it’s also about the one between the society and a user.
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User-friendly design in our world is an exception. Most of the time design is actually trying to tell users what to do.
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The way we can change and shape our society is the architecture of choices.
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Take design tools and apply them to the way people interact. If you want people to live healthier, design a cafe the way it’s easier to grab a carrot than soda.
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Users don’t always know what problems they have. Designers should think about those problems for them and solve it.
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The world will change more in the next few decades than it had in the previous few centuries. But also the word ‘change’ is too soft, it is ‘the disruption’.
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If you want to know what is the future of the market you're working on, you have to make it yourself. If you're not making it, you're simply copying it.
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Eastern European countries should understand their luxury, they still have many things that Western Europe doesn’t have.
- Anything is possible in this world of VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity).