#pacelayers
When nature is moving faster than culture (i.e. language)_
/cf. #PaceLayers by @stewartbrand.bsky.social
July 23, 2025 at 9:53 AM
🌈 ‘#PaceLayers in experience design — Stabilise innovation by understanding people’s needs’ by Duncan Stephen.

duncanstephen.net/pace-layers-...
Pace layers in experience design — Stabilise innovation by understanding people’s needs
Innovation falls flat when it doesn’t respond to a human need. Use human-centred approaches to understand people’s fundamental motivations and needs. These are the stabilising forces for innovatio...
duncanstephen.net
November 3, 2023 at 11:37 AM
A decade ago, I started weaving together the diagrams from @stewartbrand.bsky.social's 'How Buildings Learn' and 'The Clock of The Long Now', creating a socio-material playspace that really helped examine the nature of *things*.

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL9O...

#pacelayers #strategicdesign
Do The Next Right Thing - John V Willshire
YouTube video by willsh
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November 26, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Just released a new post: Do I Need This Node Dependency?

Wherein I step by step highlight a bunch of new features released on the Node.js project, and wrap up with a longer narrative about open source pace layers.

brianmuenzenmeyer.com/posts/2024-d...

#nodejs #opensource #pacelayers
January 2, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Just read your recent post, really interesting perspective and a great prompt for doing more considered work in our industry. 👍

Reminded me of the concept of #PaceLayers I've been reading a lot about recently (jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/issue3-b...). 🤔
Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning
Pace layers provide many-leveled corrective, stabilizing feedback throughout the system. It is in the contradictions between these layers that civilization finds its surest health. I propose six signi...
jods.mitpress.mit.edu
January 8, 2025 at 11:34 AM