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Care Without Clinging
Care deeply, but don’t cling. Detachment keeps you adaptable, trusted, and in the game longer than any single design.
Craft or Code: Perspectives from Designers at Every Stage
Design is evolving fast. Here's what designers and design leaders are saying about where you should put more effort.
EPC Dialogues: Invisible Effort, Career Reflections, and Impact vs Mastery
Designers from nine diverse organisations came together to reflect on invisible work, career paths, and the balance between impact and mastery.
Seeking Before Solving: A Designer's Path to Deeper Impact
The best designers slow down. They observe, ask better questions, and notice what others miss. They don’t just solve problems, they seek truths. Design is not about speed or cleverness, but about seeing clearly and making sense of what truly matters.
Tiny Boxes, Mighty Stories
A tiny matchbox became a powerful design story, blending art, culture, and commerce in just two inches of space. From freedom-era propaganda to global aesthetics, it demonstrates how even seemingly disposable objects can carry lasting meaning and creative impact.
The Seven-Mile skill: A full altitude approach to design
Experience design earns its stripes when things break
Delusion is a Design skill
Start where you are, design what can be.
Great designers work patiently with the present, while imagining better futures. Real change starts by understanding the company as it is, with all its constraints, people, and processes. Design what exists today, while patiently shaping what could be tomorrow.
Polyvocality: When multiple truths shape better outcomes
From Skateboards to Spaceships: Gall’s Law in Design
Gall’s Law states that complex systems that work usually evolve from simpler ones that already function well. For designers, this means starting small, testing often, and letting complexity emerge from real use. Simplicity is not a shortcut but the foundation of something great.
What Comes First: The Design or the Data?
EPC Dialogues: Between Function and Feeling: Problem-Solving and Poetic Vision
Designers from the Extended Pack Collective explored whether design should solve problems or shift perception, and if the chase for “impact” comes at the cost of poetry. This excerpt captures the essence of that rich, reflective conversation.