Making Design Tools Like a Weaver: Four Rules
Laura Devendorf, Shanel Wu, Mikhaila Friske · XRDS Crossroads The ACM Magazine for Students · 2023
What would happen if we designed CAD systems like a weaver designs cloth? Drawing from our ongoing collaborations with weavers, we suggest four rules to bring these qualities to your own practice: follow the materials, privilege the present and personal, form kinships with the past, and design systems of notations.