Category: The Material of Design
A series of six conversations on UX research as craft. These pieces explore the folds, silences, and resistances that shape how we learn through method — and where method breaks down. Composed with a large language model, they trace the material thinking behind design.
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Conversation VI — Titles for an Unwritten Report
We end with transition. The moment between roles, actions, meanings. This is about pace, ambiguity, and what emerges when we don’t rush to resolve.
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Conversation V — What Research Forgets
What if writing doesn’t clarify but over-defines? We examine how language can preserve nuance — and when to let the unsaid remain.
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Conversation IV — Words Before Insight
Every method has edges. This conversation explores how framing reveals some things and hides others — and how we might notice what nearly escapes.
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Conversation III — The Method is the Medium
Templates and slide decks do more than organise — they shape what’s thinkable. This exchange asks how our tools frame, reduce, or distort insight.
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Conversation II — The Researcher as Listener
We shift focus to listening as method — not for answers, but for presence. What happens when research begins with attention, not intention?
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Conversation I — On the Fold
We shift focus to listening as method — not for answers, but for presence. What happens when research begins with attention, not intention?