mickeymcmanus.bsky.social
Maker/teacher/student/stumbler, author of Trillions, thriving in the information ecology. http://trillions.civium.net
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Best book I’ve read in last year was Building Sim City, which isn’t really about sim city but the history of sim and agent based cellular automata and systems dynamics.
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We wrote about the challenges of running a society on URLs instead of some sort of sane massively distributed approach like DNA uses in our book Trillions.
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Remember: Just like your appendix, you might think design is vestigial right up until it kills you. Unlike your appendix, we come with a satisfaction guarantee and significantly less internal bleeding.
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Warning Signs You Need Us:
- Your user interface is causing more trauma than a burst appendix
- Your customer support team has developed PTSD
- Your product's survival rate is lower than appendicitis in 1850
- Your design debt has become septic
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*Vestigial Studios: Because when design goes septic, "Move Fast and Break Things" becomes "Move Fast and Break Your Company."*
Let’s move slow and heal things!
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We're here to prevent your design decisions from becoming a medical emergency that requires explaining to shareholders why you lost 30% market share because your checkout flow was "good enough."
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Our Promise:
Just like an inflamed appendix can drop you to your knees in screaming agony, bad design can bring your billion-dollar company to the emergency room faster than you can say "our users will get used to it."
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2. Preventive Care: Building design antibodies before your users revolt and your brand ends up on the operating table
3. Corporate Gut Health: Maintaining a healthy balance of innovation bacteria while fighting off the parasites of "We've always done it this way"
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How to Win:
1. Emergency Design Surgery: Rushing in when your product experience has ruptured and is poisoning your entire customer base
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- Wherever executives say "Design is just making things pretty"
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Where to Play:
- In the inflamed spaces between "Ship it now, design it later" and "Why is our churn rate exploding?"
- Within organizations experiencing acute design appendicitis: symptoms include customer rage tweets, plummeting NPS, and employees quietly updating their LinkedIn profiles
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We're that "unnecessary" organ that suddenly becomes the difference between life and death when your competitor's seamless user experience starts eating your market share alive.
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I think this is a multi level challenge too. Bioengineering at the composite level beyond dna/rna/protein towards meso and macro level structures for assembly and disassembly of real world places and things. Silk chitin composites etc like silk lab does but with ai sensors and scalable sim.
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