Links

1. Material Matters – Bas van Abel – Repair and conflict minerals

   Great conversation with Fairphone founder Bas van Abel about the trials and tribulations of starting a business and product focused on longevity, repairability and ethically sourced minerals.

   If consumerism was a religion we’d all be extremists.

2. Blackbox Episode 3 – Repocalypse now

   Loneliness, love, lust and LLMs… what could possibly go wrong?

3. PaperNet Boarding Pass

   A fantastic example of playful design and elevating the value artifacts based on the context of use. By Brian Suda and the creative folks at https://optional.is/.

4. The Clearleft Podcast: Measuring Design

   The smart folks at Clearleft and co. discuss what can, can’t, should and shouldn’t be measured of design and user experiences.

5. Metadesign For Murph — dConstruct Audio Archive

   John Willshire’s musings of designing for a future we can’t see from 2015 dConstruct conference.

6. One Scientist Painstakingly Establishes a Chronology for More than 100 Surviving Prints of ‘The Great Wave’ by Hokusai

   Capucine Korenberg’s astonishing scientific research study into the chronology and composition of over 100 Hokusai’s ‘The Great Wave’ impressions.

7. Anki setup

   Useful settings to make Anki SRS app more forgiving and increase learning efficiency.

   Links to context and related content:

   • Matt vs Japan livestream walkrough

8. Disrupting Japan Podcast: How to sell innovation in cut-throat, low-margin industries

   A fascinating conversation with the Elephantech startup that is changing the manufacturing of printed circuit boards (PCB) from a subtractive to additive by using ink-jet printing process; reducing waste and manufacturing costs and helping to make a much-needed decarbonisation shift in the tech industry.

   Links to context and related content:

   • Techcrunch article from 2022
   • Elephantech presentation

9. Design X Stories: Customise

   Some really unique approaches to customisation in product design to increase creativity, collaboration and create more accessible and inclusive products for a diverse range of customers.

   Links to context and related content:

   • https://vuild.co.jp/en/projects/
   • https://www.whatdesigncando.com/stories/misaki-tanaka-on-making-sustainable-fashion-more-inclusive/

10. Is the clock ticking for TicTok?

    The argument for and against banning TikTok, the staggering magnitude of data stolen by the Meta Pixel.