Provenance
of Design.

Atlas

Ideas have neighbours.

Concepts, terms, references, and connected ideas—a way into the language that runs through this collection.

Design provenance

Chain of Authorship

Why did we make this design decision—and what would someone need to question it or carry it forward? Chain of Authorship is my developing framework for keeping the evidence, interpretations, and choices behind design work connected.

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Authority & accountability

Chain of Ownership

As a product grows, the knowledge needed to shape it becomes distributed. Chain of Ownership asks how decision authority should relate to relevant expertise, responsibility, and consequence.

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The Timeline of Provenance of Design

An interactive archive experiment exploring connections between words, frameworks, and projects.

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