Experiential Design For The Tik-Tok Generation

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Since its creation in 2016, TikTok has become the fastest-growing social media application with 1.65 billion downloads. With a tagline of “Real People. Real Videos,” TikTok is on a mission to inspire creativity and bring joy through short-form mobile videos. Of no surprise, the user demographics show that Generation Z – also called Zoomers – are the target for TikTok’s viral video challenges. Today’s design world has already taken on influences from other social platforms, like Instagram, so how do we see design evolving for this new generation of TikTok users? 

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The Spread of Coronavirus is Our Fault

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The Role of Design in a World of Perpetual Pandemics

Call it a panic. Call it a pandemic. It doesn't matter whether you believe this year's novel Coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, is just a small bump in the road or will indeed be the end of us all. The fact remains that pandemics will, and already are, becoming as commonplace as severe weather events and other natural disasters. The rapid rise and decline of SARS in 2003 may have just been a warning. COVID-19 and it's swift, seemingly inevitable march across the world is a sign that globalized diseases are here to stay. Indeed, I believe that we now live in an age of perpetual pandemic. Governments and tech billionaires probably won't save us, but the architects and designers of our shared built environments and cities just might - if we can get our act together.

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