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Mauricio Mejía @mejiando.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

One of the best things I have done this week: actually using the shortcut I created in Word for pasting un formatted text.

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Mauricio Mejía @mejiando.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Trust. In my work session today, many people talking about it. I am thinking trust and automation are placed in extremes. We should focus on and rely more on human trust for all we do.

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Mauricio Mejía @mejiando.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Design scholars do a disservice to the field when the papers they write have very little use for design practice.

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Mauricio Mejía @mejiando.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Design Empathy or Design Tastemaking? [Alert: controversial take] Design empathy based on gathering insights is rarely how good designers work. While I wish good designers were empathetic and worked to deeply understand people and their needs, it has never been a primary design approach.

Two graphics. Left, design empathy: Designer in a rounded box on the top, and people in a rounded box on the bottom; an arrow connects people with designer with the phrase “insights about people,” and another arrow connects designer with people with the phrase “proposal based on insights.” Right, design tastemaking: Also, a designer in a rounded box on the top and people in a rounded box on the bottom; a dashed arrow connects the people with designer with the word“intuition,” and another arrow connects designer with people with the phrase “proposal based on the designer’s vision.” A label at the bottom, Graphic: Mauricio Mejía.

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Mauricio Mejía @mejiando.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

AI-bot teachers only make sense if there are AI-bot students who pay tuition.

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Mauricio Mejía @mejiando.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

When talking about designing, it is better to say proposal-making rather than problem-solving. Designing suggests desirable futures combining intuition/imagination with evidence/theory. Other practices typically suggest an expected output based mostly on evidence/theory.

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Mauricio Mejía @mejiando.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

“Transdisciplinary design” is a redundancy. Transdisciplinarity is the nature of design; design practitioners must integrate knowledge to make compelling and effective proposals.

Text in a solid background that reads: "When designing, practitioners integrate multiple disciplines."

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Mauricio Mejía @mejiando.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

In ideal co-design activities, facilitators give participants the power to (1) define the design process and (2) make design decisions.

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Mauricio Mejía @mejiando.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Some designers want to enjoy crafting visual communication, products, or spaces… …they might not want to be strategic designers — not participating in decisions about creating and capturing business and social value.

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Mauricio Mejía @mejiando.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I often hear designers say things that suggest designing is done after framing and defining the situation. For example, "We are ready to design the product." This communicates that designers are only good at coming up with ideas and creating pretty stuff.

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Mauricio Mejía @mejiando.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

"Co-design sessions" are not real co-design. These are just sessions that are part of a longer and more complex design process where experts and leaders are likely to keep holding power.

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Mauricio Mejía @mejiando.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Design is a practice that defines and influences how we live, play, and work. Good designers need solid foundations in critical thinking, ethics, politics, and business.

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Mauricio Mejía @mejiando.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Design is a series of activities in a process. These activities are conducted iteratively and differently in every process. For this reason, it is not possible to identify *the* design method. The design method is no method.

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Mauricio Mejía @mejiando.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Designers tend to laser-focus on the features, characteristics, and forms of the products and services they are creating.

Two graphics compraring designing features and designing strategy. In designing features, a gray circle with the words organizations, strategy, and technology; then, an arrow connecting two other grouped orange circles (a) understand people and (b) design products and services. In designing strategy, three grouped blue circles (a) understand people and organizations, (b) design value proposition, and (c) design products and services.

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Mauricio Mejía @mejiando.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Data-driven approaches conflict with systemic approaches. Measuring will narrow the view of the system. In a systemic approach, observing and assessing emergence is more meaningful.

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 29/01/2025

They plagiarized our trillion dollar plagiarism machine!?

General Ripper from Dr. Strangelove on the telephone with a concerned look

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Mauricio Mejía @mejiando.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

It is insufficient to tell design students and designers that there is a lot of power in designing. We also need to tell designers who hold power and what types of design practices and approaches have power. Designing "end-user" artifacts is the last element in the chain of power.

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Mauricio Mejía @mejiando.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

The most meaningful and impactful Thing we can design for today is public opinion. The challenge is understanding the ethical and political responsibility that involves designing for public opinion.

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Mauricio Mejía @mejiando.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I am skeptical that AI will help us with the boring, administrative, repetitive tasks we do in design and other professions. While it is possible that AI can actually help with that, it is not probable.

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Mauricio Mejía @mejiando.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Hey, I also miss the days when we, designers, felt that we could develop a unique style and dream of becoming famous designers.

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Mauricio Mejía @mejiando.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I try hard not to use the term “non-designers.” Design is a human ability, and professional designers have no right to exclude people from the design activity. I prefer “non-professional designers.”

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