Designing Design vs. We Are Not Users
An AI-Powered Thematic Analysis
The Core Connection
Designing Design
Kenya Hara
We Are Not Users
Eswaran Subrahmanian
A Bridge of Ideas
Despite their seemingly disparate foci within the design realm, 'We Are Not Users' and 'Designing Design' forge a profound connection through their shared critique of object-centric approaches, acting as conceptual bridges across how we perceive both the act of creation and the nature of user interaction. Both books implicitly challenge the reader to move beyond superficial functionalism towards a design that acknowledges a deeper, more emergent human context, mirroring a potential trajectory in your own thinking about intentionality in creation.
What does BRIDGES mean on Hikara?
A BRIDGE is a cross-domain connection — two books that look unrelated on the surface but transfer ideas between fields (e.g., biology to economics, art to engineering). Reading them together unlocks new applications.
Hikara's AI labels each connection it finds as one of three types, ECHOES, CHALLENGES or BRIDGES, and scores its strength from 0 to 100. This pair's type is BRIDGE, with a strength of 66 / 100.
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Designing Design
We Are Not Users
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