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What makes work meaningful, or meaningless? Exploring pathways for UX practitioners to evolve their practices towards more fulfilling, socially engaged ways of working.

UX practice stands at a crossroads, as practitioners increasingly struggle with the escalating pressures of industrial capitalism. How might we envision alternative futures for more a post-capitalist version of UX practice?

In an increasingly metrics-driven business climate, UX practitioners face escalating pressures to deliver small-scale results. Is there a better way?

Reflections on teaching a summer course in Design Futures at the School of Visual Arts in NYC.

Reflections on a ten-day course in Transition Design at Schumacher College in the UK.

Recapping a workshop on the future of design education at the 2018 IxDA Education Summit in Lyon, France.

What does it mean to do “meaningful” work? According to a recent MIT study, most of us find meaning in our professional lives in highly individual and idiosyncratic ways: one person’s tedium is another’s labor of love.

In his 1905 novel A Modern Utopia, H.G. Wells imagined a future world in which a small group of highly skilled creative workers wielded enormous power over the rest of society. He dubbed this new breed of elite professionals the “Samurai.”

Good work uses no thing without respect, both for what it is in itself and for its origin …. It does not dissociate life and work, or pleasure and work, or love and work, or usefulness and beauty. — Wendell Berry

Kevin Rosenberg, Collaborative Commons

As the global network continues to shrink the distance between producers and consumers, the global economy is also beginning to respond to a set major systemic shocks: climate change, growing income inequality, mass migration, and the rise of populist right-wing nationalism, to name a [...]