Erica Silver

... I can’t treat this pandemic as an opportunity to “explore the digital realm” or to find “radical creativity” as the school’s heart-wrenchingly inspiring email blasts suggest. The perpetual circulation of Design Thinking solutions is irresponsible, and does nothing but prove designers’ incurable self-importance. If revolutionary leader is an oxymoron because the leader isn’t important in a revolution, design solution is also an oxymoron because the design isn’t important in a solution. But the industry’s obsession with innovation has taught designers to be clever all the time and now we don’t know when to shut up. Why can’t solitude and silence be a solution for once?

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“14 Day Detox for Designers: The Ultimate Weight Loss Guide for Your Ego"

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... I realize that I’m criticizing the thing I love most—the design community. But Mr. Baldwin told me that I get the right to do so for that very reason. So consider this writing and the following guide a proposal. I propose that we stop the ego-filled making-for-the-sake-of-making, echo-chamber-concert, and overcompensation-turned-cannibalism.