Video of last week’s Ryan Singer lecture, “Designing with Forces: How to Apply Christopher Alexander in Everyday Work” is up. Thanks to our audience for an intimidate evening of lecture and discussion and Roland Lazarte for filming.
….(What) I think we should get out of design theory is that it should help us whenever we as designers are creating—user interface, a piece of software, something—we need to be able to point to any element of our design and say “why is that there, why does that work, what were the different pressures that led us to that, and why is it continuing,” instead of saying “well, it kinda looked good.“–Ryan Singer
