@mejiando

Strategic Designer, Professor @ASUDesignSchool Design thoughts, tweets are not papers #DesignForChange #StrategicDesign #Research #ServiceDesign

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Joined August 2009
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Mauricio Mejía retweeted
David Sirota
@davidsirotaSep 23
Sam Altman is warning the world about Sam Altman, and says we need to stop Sam Altman because Sam Altman can’t stop Sam Altman.
CSPAN
@cspanSep 23
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on potential dangers of AI: "First, we could lose control of the future to AI. The risk is that it moves so fast that people can no longer follow what's happening or intervene when needed."
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Mauricio Mejía@mejiando18 Jul 2021
I am considering to include 10% in my academic load for the task of identifying, ignoring, and deleting unsolicited emails to publish in predatory journals
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Design Empathy or Design Tastemaking? [Alert: controversial take]
Two graphics. Left, design empathy: Designer in a rounded box on the top, and people in a rounded box on the bottom; an arrow connects people with designer with the phrase “insights about people,” and another arrow connects designer with people with the phrase “proposal based on insights.” Right, design tastemaking: Also, a designer in a rounded box on the top and people in a rounded box on the bottom; a dashed arrow connects the people with designer with the word“intuition,” and another arrow connects designer with people with the phrase “proposal based on the designer’s vision.” A label at the bottom, Graphic: Mauricio Mejía.

ALT Two graphics. Left, design empathy: Designer in a rounded box on the top, and people in a rounded box on the bottom; an arrow connects people with designer with the phrase “insights about people,” and another arrow connects designer with people with the phrase “proposal based on insights.” Right, design tastemaking: Also, a designer in a rounded box on the top and people in a rounded box on the bottom; a dashed arrow connects the people with designer with the word“intuition,” and another arrow connects designer with people with the phrase “proposal based on the designer’s vision.” A label at the bottom, Graphic: Mauricio Mejía.

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Design tastemaking can better describe how designers consider people. Good designers are tastemakers who rely on intuition and have the ability to get people to desire their proposed artifacts.
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In other words, designers have intuitive or lived experience sensibilities to propose visions (tastemaking). Human-centered design research (empathy) is secondary.
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AI-bot teachers only make sense if there are AI-bot students who pay tuition
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Human-centered ≠ benefits for all humans.
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We design products that solve problems. Products typically generate other problems. Some new problems are systemic and can’t be solved with more products.
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Then, designers must consider the future consequences of their work—a significant challenge in contemporary design that receives very little attention.
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Traditional designers align, arrange, and balance #form. Strategic designers align, arrange, and balance #power.
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We need to transition from designing artifacts to helping people enact artifacts in different ways. #DesignAfterDesign
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We should focus again on learning meaningfully not on learning rapidly.
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If you design for emergent consequences, there are no unintended consequences.
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Mauricio Mejía retweeted
DRS@thisisDRS11 Oct 2023
The DRS Special Interest Group Designing Change is pleased to announce that Mauricio Mejía and Luca Simeone have accepted to take the role of Co-Convenors. Read more about the SIG and its new Convenors here: designresearchsociety.org/ar…
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Considering longer-term futures would help design for immediate futures.
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New issue online, including a paper by @mejiando inderscience.com/info/inarti…
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Fresh from the oven. Our systematic review about how designers engage with sustainability. We found that designers are aware and interested. However, other priorities defined by business and policy strongly reduce their ability to act. Existing sustainability tools appear naive.
Journal of Design Research@JDesignResearch11 Jul 2023
New issue online, including a paper by @mejiando inderscience.com/info/inarti…
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Smart low-tech non-touch handle to exit a restroom. Spotted in Bogotá ⁦@ArqDisUA⁩ ⁦@Uniandes⁩
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Sometimes designing nothing is the best proposal. But a designing-nothing approach is not design.
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