{"id":1165,"date":"2020-03-21T16:52:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T23:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2020-03-21T16:52:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T23:52:04","slug":"sense-making-what-doesnt-make-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/?p=1165","title":{"rendered":"Sense-making what doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make sense"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I often joke that Friday is when I can finally catch my breath after a hectic week at work, and survey the damage. With so much context-shifting and decision-making \u00e2\u20ac\u201d it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a head-holding moment of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153what the hell happened\u00e2\u20ac\u009d? Well, these last couple Fridays (and perhaps into the foreseeable future) this joke has taken a more dramatic and serious note, with various covid-19 (novel coronavirus) global pandemic impacts upon markets, societal norms, sports, school schedules, travel\/tourism, office work\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and especially upon healthcare systems. This has become a once-in-a-century situation that almost nobody alive today has dealt with before at such spread and speed, prompting a range of emotions, generally in the zone of anxiety \/ dread \/ fear \/ panic.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My next few posts will try to tackle this with a designer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lens, especially the impact upon what it means to go fully self-isolated and virtualized when doing the work of design. Aside from \u00e2\u20ac\u0153top tips for working at home\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plenty of those already! \u00e2\u20ac\u201d there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an abundance of interlocking nuances & issues worth pointing out when work (or design) is virtually conducted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For now, however, I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help but recall my own 2020 New Year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Resolution of selecting three interrelated keywords to focus on for the year, as a fresh way to commence a new year and decade, described in a post here<\/a>. Indeed, we are in some trying times where those three words I picked \u00e2\u20ac\u201d ambiguity<\/em>, synthesis<\/em>, and resilience<\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d are now kinda paramount! Who knew?? These words, as I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m realizing now, could possibly serve as a framework for making sense, or at least offer guidance, on how to navigate these anxious, uncertain times. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an attempt at articulating that below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n