DUp 164 🌏️ 5 Future Roles, Kings of Tech, De-Manufacturing, Tools & Toolkits

Apple hopes that e-waste will become a thing of the past thanks to its Daisy family of specialist break-down robots that will transform old iPhones into raw materials.

To provide value, designers will need different skills and mental models. Jose Arango outlines some possible roles for designers in a world where our object of focus isn’t stuff happening on screens.

Big tech is driven not only by scientific and technological progress, but the imperfect and unprofessional emotions of VCs - so studying VCs also helps us understand some of the systemic issues better.

Great UX happens when you exceed what users expect from your product and what customers say they need from you. It’s when you deliver something even better than their expectations, says Jared Spool.

To design great enterprise products, you need a solid, iterative UX design process that can help you to deal with the uncertainties and complexity that often come with these projects. Plus, being able to handle ambiguity is essential for UX designers in this dynamic, fast-changing industry.

Graphic Designer Ariane Spanier reconnected with her hometown of Weimer through a series of sculptural typography installations she created in public spaces, to illuminate the power of language through design.

Muhammad Fatchurofi translates the dappled, grainy textures of the printing press into his vivid illustrations.

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