Designing in an Age of Acceleration

How designers can keep up and still do good work

Christian Beck
Modus
Published in
7 min readJun 15, 2018

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Photo by Haythem Gataa on Unsplash

II recently finished Thomas Friedman’s Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations. I found it to be one of the most impactful books I’ve read in the last few years. I highly recommend reading it yourself, but I’ll cover some of the highlights and how they pertain to our future as…

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Christian Beck
Modus
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By day, executive designer at Innovatemap where I help tech companies design marketable products. By night, co-founder of UX Power Tools.