HCD IS DEAD, LONG LIVE HCD
summary
Argues that Human‑Centered Design is brittle: the Double Diamond hides profit at its core, ISO HCD even sells a step‑by‑step PDF for 250 CHF, and repeatable methods ossify into doctrine. Proposes post-HCD: shift from human‑centric to post‑human and post‑centred thinking, use actor‑network and systems thinking, treat work as interventions not single solutions, build new tools (futures frameworks, canvases, an innovation board game) and embrace the design squiggle by making different, context‑sensitive practices each time.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction with praise singer
- 1:27Voyager’s little blue dot
- 2:30Design is breaking now
- 5:40History of design practice
- 8:54The pattern problem explained
- 10:15Human-centered design limits
- 13:01Human-centered flaws
- 16:16Post-human and post-centered design
- 22:34Planetary design thinking
- 23:56Design as ambiguous term
- 25:03Designers as toolmakers
- 27:31Introducing post-HCD
- 28:40Principles of post-HCD
- 30:29Embrace the design squiggle
