Being as the World

This is the wiki realm of Devin Halladay, a product designer and writer based in Manhattan.

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Featured Essays

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Long-form writing on topics ranging from design and technology, to political theory, to art history, and beyond.

How to Exchange Critique

May 20219 min readDesign Critique

Learn to give better design feedback, discover your critique style, and get more comfortable receiving feedback.

Why Critique?

May 202111 min readDesign Critique

A deep dive into what design critique is for, why practitioners should care, and different ways of framing the idea of criticism.

Into the World of Images

January 201924 min readImages Technics Dialectics Aesthetics Semiotics (Structural)

What does it mean to be as an image?

The Aesthetics of Efficiency

December 201850 min readAesthetics Capitalism Ideology

Automation produces efficiency culture, with its own distinct ethics and aesthetics

Recent Notes

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Rolling, work-in-progress notes, images, clippings, and threads.

08.06.2021

Address red flags early on and with candor.

Communication Client Relations Disagreement Building Alignment
08.06.2021

Clients are cats. You can't herd them.

Building Alignment Communication Client Relations
12.31.2021

Course Marketplaces

Online Learning Education History of Online Education 2000s 2010s
08.06.2021

Critique is important, but not always from clients.

Critique Design Review Feedback Design Process
08.06.2021

Design is a sense.

Design
08.06.2021

Everyone's a specialist with their own style.

Generalists General Specialists Specialization Teamwork