Ethos Archives | David Yarde

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Design Manifesto II: The Architecture of Intention

The human advantage lies entirely in meaning.

Years ago, I wrote that designers bear a dual duty: contractually to their clients, and morally to the later users and recipients of their work. …

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Eleven Weeks Inside the Machine

Most of our biggest challenges aren’t capability problems. They’re a wicked mix of coordination, infrastructure, trust, and narrative.

The past 11 weeks have been a wild ride through data science, history, ontologies, cleaning data, mapping creative, business and financial supply chains, and recognizing …

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Memento Mori: Borrowed Time, Infinite Meaning

It’s pretty arrogant to think that tomorrow or even the next moment is promised. In the silence between heartbeats, I pray daily we remember what …

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Filling the Gaps with Creativity

If you see a constructive way to fill a gap, do it. You can either be a gap filler or creator. Both serve a purpose, …

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Branding, Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), and Santa Claus

The original version of this article appeared on a site I used to run over a decade ago called “HowsYourBlog”. While the site and clever …

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Just Keep it..

Most people will agree that short and sweet is the way to go. Others may argue that having something long and detailed is where you …

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That 2001 Style Blogging with a 21st Century Twist

So it started with a random moment of nostalgia reflecting upon the joy of just creating and sharing things in between the sometimes unpredictable “fail …

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