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“The same diagrams are useful for the everyday person who wants to keep informed but not by having to delve deeply into the detailed technical jargon and details. This is where the tool known as a dashboard comes into play. Information Dashboards In an automobile, the driver needs to know a few critical pieces of information. Over time, the displays in front of the driver have evolved to present critical, important, and sometimes simply useful information: the display is called a “dashboard.” The point of an automobile dashboard is to make information readily available at a glance, without distracting the driver. In the field of information technology, dashboards summarize in a simple and clear form the key variables that are essential for decision-making. For example, decision makers need quick and authoritative assessments of conditions, allowing them to know where their attention should be focused.”
― Design for a Better World: Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered
― Design for a Better World: Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered
“My purpose for this book is to provoke you, to inspire you, and to challenge you to make the world better. Ultimately, we are all confronted by our purpose in life, what the Japanese call ikigai: the convergence of one's personal passions, beliefs, values, and vocation.112 We must all decide on that which influences our career plans and our everyday actions, that which gives us satisfaction and a sense of accomplishment and meaning to our lives. In that personal quest, I hope you will find this book useful, and perhaps, apply what you learn, along with your own passion, purpose, and values, to design a better world.”
― Make the World a Better Place: Design with Passion, Purpose, and Values
― Make the World a Better Place: Design with Passion, Purpose, and Values
“Our studies suggest that when the world gets better, we become harsher critics of it, and this can cause us to mistakenly conclude that it hasn’t actually gotten better at all. Progress, it seems, tends to mask itself.”133”
― Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet
― Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet
“One philosopher, Karl Popper, contended that the limitations of the inferential, experimental method, which characterized science since Bacon, could not establish the truth of a proposition; it could only eliminate the alternative explanations that were tested.13 Thus, “truth” was tentative, waiting to be modified or even upended by the next set of experiments. The other, Thomas Kuhn, contended that, in fact, scientists were not objective seekers of truth, but rather, engaged in confirming the current “truth,” what Kuhn called the prevailing “paradigm” in the discipline. In the practice of what Kuhn called “normal science,” scientists were merely elaborating on this paradigm or using it to explain away any anomalies in their findings. It was only when anomalies accumulate to the point of crisis, when the current paradigm can no longer hold up, that the science opens to new, revolutionary ways of thinking that replace the old.”
― Make the World a Better Place: Design with Passion, Purpose, and Values
― Make the World a Better Place: Design with Passion, Purpose, and Values
“As mentioned, this conceptual knowledge, generated through the Scientific Tradition, has come to be used in the creation of designs in practical fields, such as mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, medicine, clinical psychology, social work, and education. It is easiest to measure the impact of scientific research on the economy. A study looked at the impact of research on economic growth in 65 countries over the period 1980–2016.19 They found that the amount of research output in a country increased economic growth, primarily through structural changes favoring the industrial sector. They found that academic knowledge was applied in a broad set of industries and that social and physical sciences impact economic growth the most. The impact of the research output of clinical and health sciences, and arts and humanities was characterized by low levels of applications, although they also led to positive economic growth.”
― Make the World a Better Place: Design with Passion, Purpose, and Values
― Make the World a Better Place: Design with Passion, Purpose, and Values
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