The art of looking sideways
by Alan Fletcher · first published 2001
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…it was that it gave you permission to take only the parts of an idea, argument, whatever that you liked, and leave the rest well alone, and form your own ideas. (The closest book to this would be The Art of Looking Sideways, by Alan Fletcher [2] which is as apolitical as you can make it, but is basically the guy's creative sketchbook distilled down. Pick what you like, and be inspired.) That sounds so simple and obvious,…
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on “Ask HN: What are some must read books?” ↗…design inspiration more than I would've thought * The Death and Life of Great American Cities * The Philosophy of Andy Warhol * Influence by Robert Caldini * Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human * The Art of Looking Sideways * Cosmos * Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth * The Theory of Moral Sentiments And just specifically for computer UX, Smashing UX Design is a pretty good crash course.
on “Ask HN: What are the best resources to learn Product Design?” ↗> Civilization has made us docile, but we’re still the same people underneath, and a change in circumstance could send us back into that primitive state. To quote The Art of Looking Sideways: “Civilization is chaos taking a rest.” I do grow tired of this idea of "primitive" people being a bunch of savages. One would think with the explosion of knowledge in anthropology we've acquired in…
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