{"id":15859,"date":"2014-08-10T04:19:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T04:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/he-asserts-that-increasingly-effective-design\/"},"modified":"2014-08-10T04:19:01","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T04:19:01","slug":"he-asserts-that-increasingly-effective-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/he-asserts-that-increasingly-effective-design\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>He asserts that, increasingly, effective design means engaging with the messy politics \u2013 the \u201cdark matter\u201d \u2013 taking place above the designer\u2019s head. And that may mean redesigning the organisation that hires you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><em>&#8211; Blurb for Dan Hill\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strelka.com\/en\/press\/books\/dark-matter-and-trojan-horses-a-strategic-design-vocabulary\">Dark Matter and Trojan Horses<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A lesson I keep relearning: the type and quality of work an organization produces is entirely a function of how it is set up internally.<\/p>\n<p>All the good intentions in the world cannot withstand processes optimized for a conflicting outcome.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What outcome do we say we want?<\/li>\n<li>Is our current system optimized for that outcome?<\/li>\n<li>If not, what new muscles must we build to be able to effect that outcome? What skills must we learn or unlearn? What prosthetics must we acquire?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/emmanuelquartey.com\/\">quartey<\/a>)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/elmerseason.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">elmerseason<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He asserts that, increasingly, effective design means engaging with the messy politics \u2013 the \u201cdark matter\u201d \u2013 taking place above the designer\u2019s head. And that may mean redesigning the organisation that hires you. &#8211; Blurb for Dan Hill\u2019s Dark Matter and Trojan Horses A lesson I keep relearning: the type and quality of work an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-47N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}