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Design books

Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton

ellenlupton.com/Thinking-wit...

#Boosky #design #books #designbooks #type

November 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM

patternmind.bsky.social

@patternmind.bsky.social

Design books

Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights by Steve Portigal

rosenfeldmedia.com/books/interv...

#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #UX

November 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM

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Steven Forth

@stevenforth.bsky.social

2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.

Coding

#Booksky #2books #data #computation #coding #Knuth

November 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM

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Steven Forth

@stevenforth.bsky.social

2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.

Coding

#Booksky #2books #data #physics #Feynman #computation #coding

November 8, 2025 at 1:13 PM

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Steven Forth

@stevenforth.bsky.social

A wonderful interactive exploration of strange attractors, I would like to internalize the deeper patterns here.

blog.shashanktomar.com/posts/strang...

Strange Attractors | Shashank Tomar

A visualisation of Strange Attractors using a Threejs particle system. In this post, I will try to explain the basics of dynamical systems, chaos theory, attractors and the butterfly effect.

blog.shashanktomar.com

November 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM

patternmind.bsky.social

@patternmind.bsky.social

Design books

Evil by Design: Interaction Design to Lead Us Into Temptation by Chris Nodder

evilbydesign.info

#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #UX #antipatterns

November 8, 2025 at 1:31 PM

patternmind.bsky.social

@patternmind.bsky.social

Design books

Chair Anatomy by James Orrom

Many designers are obsessed with chairs.

www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/chair-...

#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #chairs

November 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM

patternmind.bsky.social

@patternmind.bsky.social

"Humans must move up the food chain to exhibit agency and strategic management, while letting superior AI systems operate without human interference to avoid introducing bias and error." Jakob Nielsen

jakobnielsenphd.substack.com/p/humans-neg...

#AI #design #humanintheloop

When Humans Add Negative Value: AI Alone vs. Human–AI Synergy

The prevailing “human in the loop” paradigm for AI use must die or be drastically reduced.

jakobnielsenphd.substack.com

November 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM

patternmind.bsky.social

@patternmind.bsky.social

Design books

Who owns the water by Lars Müller, Klaus Lanz, Christian Rentsch, and René Schwarzenbach

www.lars-mueller-publishers.com/who-owns-water

#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #water

November 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM

patternmind.bsky.social

@patternmind.bsky.social

Design books

Design requires thought, tools for thinking help.

Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel Dennett.

www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/404481...

#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #tools #thought

November 5, 2025 at 12:52 PM

patternmind.bsky.social

@patternmind.bsky.social

Design books

Summa Technologiae by Stanisław Lem translated by Joanna Zylinska

An engaging and caustically logical philosophical treatise about human and nonhuman life in its past, present, and future form.

#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #future

November 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM

patternmind.bsky.social

@patternmind.bsky.social

Design books

Darwin Among the Machines by George Dyson

www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/georg...

#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #evolution

November 3, 2025 at 11:40 AM

patternmind.bsky.social

@patternmind.bsky.social

Design books

Helen Oxenbury: A Life in Illustration by Leonard S. Marcus

www.candlewick.com/author/helen...

#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #illustration

November 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM

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Steven Forth

@stevenforth.bsky.social

2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.

Visual language

#Booksky #2books #data #design

November 1, 2025 at 10:31 AM

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Steven Forth

@stevenforth.bsky.social

2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.

Computable visualization

#Booksky #2books #data #design #Tufte

November 2, 2025 at 2:09 PM

patternmind.bsky.social

@patternmind.bsky.social

The Long Now Foundation

asks us to expand our temporal badnwidth.

longnow.org

#duration #designthinking #scenarioplanning #longnow

Long Now

The Long Now Foundation fosters long-term thinking. Our work encourages imagination at the timescale of civilization — the next and last 10,000 years — a timespan we call the long now.

longnow.org

November 1, 2025 at 10:37 AM

patternmind.bsky.social

@patternmind.bsky.social

Design books

The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility by Stewart Brand

www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/stewa...

#Booksky #design #books #designbooks #duration #time #longnow

November 1, 2025 at 10:36 AM

patternmind.bsky.social

@patternmind.bsky.social

Design books

How Buildings Learn by Stewart Brand

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/320919...

#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #architecture #evolution #adaptation

October 27, 2025 at 10:37 AM

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Steven Forth

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Brian Eno on What Art Does and AI - Ezra Klein interview

'Children learn through play, adults play through art.'

youtu.be/AfYY9v0Q0X4?...

#Eno #ambient #music #Art #AI

Brian Eno on AI, Art and What Makes Us Human

YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show

youtu.be

October 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM

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Steven Forth

@stevenforth.bsky.social

Claude is powerful, but real work requires procedural knowledge and organizational context. Introducing Agent Skills, a new way to build specialized agents using files and folders.

www.anthropic.com/engineering/...

#AI #Claude #agents #KM