Will Emergent Design go prime-time someday 🤟💎?

Experimental automation, concept workflows, and state machines in the design space

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5 min readJul 6, 2019

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Design —refers to product design: interface and user experience design, as well as state design, flow, and architecture choices.

Emergent —means becoming, emerging as part of the process, as opposed to being planned ahead of the implementation.

TLDR: In the Emergent Design workflow, the implementation starts sooner than usual, and it’s entangled with the design. Automation plays an essential role in that process. It speeds up the delivery cycle, delivers higher quality feedback, and new design ideas emerge from the close collaboration between designers, engineers, and product owners. I’m using, testing, building, and trying to make sense out of Emergent Design workflow every day. Follow here for updates.

When design and development happen at the same time, we deliver faster

Above, the typical linear workflow: design first, develop later, then test, re-design, re-factor, re-test vs a new workflow with automation…

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