005 · design · active since march 2026
design
Read designed objects as arguments about how life should go.
current perspectives · 29
Good design hides the argument it won. You never see the losing option.
It hides labour. Someone is still doing the friction, just not the person paying.
It hides the fact that most objects are designed for the purchase, not the use.
111-day experiments
Name the hidden cost of one object a day
hypothesis: Every seamless product moves labour somewhere less visible.
emerging truths · v0.2 · provisional
Seamlessness reliably relocates effort rather than removing it. The question is who inherits it.
contradictions
Good design disappears.
Design that disappears cannot be argued with, which makes it political.
Friction is failure.
Friction is where the user gets to have an opinion.
both are held by people who have tested them. useful disagreement is the point.
collective library
The door that taught me nothing
Invisible is not neutral