SLOW Thinking vs FAST Company//: good creative friction

Sketchbook spread from Spring 2021 documenting the tension between slow creative thinking and fast company culture - exploring how art and science intersect in design practice.

Coming from a farm, the slow food movement fascinated me. The tension in farming was this learned corporate vertical model that Slow Food disrupts simply by reconnecting humans to the experience of understanding where their food comes from to the table.

I'd been feeling something similar as a UX designer in the modern "What would Google or Amazon do?" enterprise space. Then Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow" gave me language for what I was experiencing.

How might my sketchbook help me achieve a flow state within a fast-paced company culture? That insight unlocked a science and art approach to my human-centered medium - software.

The curiosity on these pages seeks a healthy space of objectivity where art and science can both thrive. Most people see software as a tool. I've spent over a decade exploring it as a human-centered medium.

🌊 How do you create slow notes inside fast companies?

#SlowFood #UXDesign #GoodCreativeFriction #HumanCenteredDesign