DesignShift: From Speed to Market to Slowing Down
What can we gain from 🐌 slow? That is a question I’ve been asking myself as I’ve taken some time to slow down.
For so many years, I was moving at the speed of the industry. Always pushing myself to do a little more, try a little harder, and create a little more. This chase for more made me feel less. Less happy with the work I was doing. Less motivated to create change. Less able to dream about a better future. Guided by the speed of the market, the love I felt for design faded. Creativity lost its magic. And everything started to feel like a task to be completed, rather than an experience to be enjoyed.
Through slowness, I’ve been able to rebuild, recenter, and respark my love for design and social impact. In moments of slowness, I’ve started to see things clearer and feel things more deeply. I’ve experienced what slow feels like when designing my own life. Now, I want to explore what slow can mean for the practice of design.
DesignShift: From speed to market to slowing down.
What would it look like to shift the focus from designing for the speed of the market to designing for the speed of trust, nature, and our hearts and minds? 🐌
What does slow design look like? What would it mean for our processes, our outputs, our teams? 🐌
What would it look like to design not for the next quarter of a year, but for the next quarter of a century? 🐌