Living in Information Quotes

“We live today not in the digital, not in the physical, but in the kind of minestrone that our mind makes of the two. —Paola Antonelli”
― Jorge Arango, Living in Information: Responsible Design for Digital Places

“Designers and stakeholders can’t predict with certainty the context in which their products will exist a year or two in the future. We’d be better served by creating up-front structures that support continuous change and adaptation.”
― Jorge Arango, Living in Information: Responsible Design for Digital Places

“much rides on the people responsible for managing the environment: • The team must have a healthy attitude toward change. They should embrace change as natural and expectable and have the willingness to respond by altering the environment accordingly. • The team must have awareness of what is happening within and without the environment. They can only respond appropriately to change if they can perceive it. • It may be that the team sees what needs changing, but lacks the resources or political support to respond. Thus, the team must be empowered to respond to changes. • The team must have a clear vision of the purpose and essential character of the whole and how people use it. Understanding the whole is important if the team is to respond without compromising the environment. • The design of the environment must accommodate change gracefully. Some do this better than others; much depends on the environment’s structural configuration.”
― Jorge Arango, Living in Information: Responsible Design for Digital Places

“I always like to keep in mind Gall’s law, which states: A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a simple working system. 7”
― Jorge Arango, Living in Information: Responsible Design for Digital Places