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• Social Design is...

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  response to  Morgan Clendaniel's post Design 21 Contest Giveaway

  Notes On Social Design (From a Non-Designer)

  After writing the title and brainstorming some thoughts on social design, I realized that perhaps I too am (or could be) a social designer (sans any formal training). That being said,
  Here are my notes on social design:
  thought-provoking,
  proper perspective,
  intelligent,
  challenges assumptions, provoking of double-takes, resource-moderate (not resource-intensive),
  with intention,
  more than a modicum of forethought to its externality costs,
  of value to society (not only a select few),
  fun (whimsical at times)...

  We are (or have the ability to be) so much smarter than the majority of what human beings design, but the gravity of the regression to the mean pulls us toward mediocrity.

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  Commented on April 19, 2007 by - dmill