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In praise of slow thinking in the internet age
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Playgrounds over Paths

Today's standard design wisdom focuses on the design of linear paths. Sometimes they may branch, but they're ultimately a sequential set of steps towards a desired outcome.

Within complex systems, these paths often lack the flexibility to adapt to emergent conditions - users acting outside the "designed boundaries".

Instead of designing explicit paths, APD is oriented towards the design of playgrounds - limited spaces where the boundaries are defined by the mechanics of the system. Within these playgrounds, desire paths will naturally form based on different factors: cost, convenience, bounded rationality, etc.

Instead of designing the "center" and scripting how activities within it must unfold, it designs the periphery instead, leaving the center alone. It hopes to create a free space, that can accommodate the emergent behaviors of its users.

Playgrounds over Paths
Exam and Syllabus Database
Exam and Syllabus Database

Frank Lloyd Wrights: Apprentice Manifesto

  1. An honest ego in a healthy body.

  2. An eye to see nature

  3. A heart to feel nature

  4. Courage to follow nature

  5. The sense of proportion (humor)

  6. Appreciation of work as idea and idea as work

  7. Fertility of imagination

  8. Capacity for faith and rebellion

  9. Disregard for commonplace (inorganic) elegance

  10. Instinctive cooperation

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