Amara Hulslander

“It matters that we recognize the very large extent to which individual human thought and reason are not activities that occur solely in the brain or even solely within the organismic skin-bag. This matters because it drives home the degree to which environmental engineering is also self-engineering. In building our physical and social worlds, we build (or rather, we massively reconfigure) our minds and our capacities of thought and reason.”
― Andy Clark, Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension

“It motivates us to care so much about the challenges of another person that we’re driven to action. Empathy is the ultimate form of understanding.”
― Tom Greever, Articulating Design Decisions: Communicate with Stakeholders, Keep Your Sanity, and Deliver the Best User Experience

“I was horrified, but this was just as well, because step by step we had to become accustomed to a terrible and immense horror.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“That’s where we find ourselves today. In a meeting with people who have no idea how to do our jobs, yet consistently find it their place to tell us how to do it. It’s enough to drive any designer insane.”
― Tom Greever, Articulating Design Decisions: Communicate with Stakeholders, Keep Your Sanity, and Deliver the Best User Experience