Justin Delabar
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Justin Delabar
@delabar.design
Designer, recovering political scientist, aspiring novelist and cat dad.
https://www.systemsandsignals.co/
Spider-sense blindspot.
August 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
What does this mean for the future of design?
Civic simulation. Policy prototyping. Algorithmic accountability.
It’s time to think beyond screens and interfaces.
June 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Designers are implicated in all of this.
We don’t just present data.
We shape how people perceive, decide, and act.
That means we help structure possible futures—whether we mean to or not.
June 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This is the rise of what I call the Simulation Stack—
a layered system of:

Data collection

Predictive modeling

Outcome optimization

Behavior shaping

It’s no longer just tech. It’s infrastructure for decision-making.
June 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Private companies are now simulating entire societies.

BlackRock models global finance

Palantir simulates logistics, policing

Meta and Google model attention and behavior

Governments are following suit
June 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I read “passed” as in you passed 300 discs like kidney stones and almost passed out.
June 21, 2025 at 12:56 PM