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7 Must Watch TED Talks About Design
For the people that are creating the future
Designers are essentially the people that we have charged with creating the human experience in our world. There are few professions that deserve more respect and admiration. Designers have the ability to bring to life experiences that are efficient, positive, just, and joyful. Likewise, bad design has the ability to ruin the human experience. Here are 7 TED Talks for designers that are creating an efficient, positive, just, and joyful future.
1. Justice by Design — Antionette Carroll
“If design is shaping our culture in our world and has been doing it for centuries, then why are we not inviting designers to the table to address these social justice issues that are embedded within our culture?” — Antionette Carroll
2. The genius of the London Tube Map — Michael Bierut
“Harry Beck was a 29-year-old engineering draftsman who had been working on and off for the London Underground. And he had a key insight, and that was that people riding underground in trains don’t really care what’s happening aboveground. They just want to get from station to station — “Where do I get on? Where do I get off?” It’s the system that’s important, not the geography. He’s taken this complicated mess of spaghetti, and he’s simplified it. The lines only go in three directions: they’re horizontal, they’re vertical, or they’re 45 degrees. Likewise, he spaced the stations equally, he’s made every station color correspond to the color of the line, and he’s fixed it all so that it’s not really a map anymore. What it is is a diagram, just like circuitry, except the circuitry here isn’t wires conducting electrons, it’s tubes containing…
