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Wix Playground, PORTO ROCHA and float Collaborate to Present 'Design Threads,' a Multifaceted Report and Live Exhibition
The interactive report is a culmination of industry and cultural research with participation from hundreds of designers from around the world NEW YORK, Sept.
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[{"type":"text","content":"The interactive report is a culmination of industry and cultural research with participation from hundreds of designers from around the world\nNEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wix (Nasdaq: WIX), a leading global SaaS platform to create, manage and grow an online presence, via the Wix Playground, the company's web design initiative, commissioned Brooklyn-based design agency PORTO ROCHA, who worked in collaboration with research analysis hub float, to release Design Threads: a digital report and exhibition. The report explores the state of design through conversations with 30 design leaders and 250 responses from the design community. Both the digital report and physical exhibition address some of the most urgent questions and shared feelings among designers today.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \nWeaving together interview and survey responses, cultural research, visual content (image submissions, memes, video), and live interactive elements, Design Threads is available to the public as a web-based digital report — for designers, by designers. The report is organized into four different threads, each dedicated to a theme that came up frequently across the collaborative research process.*\nWith the goal of considering urgent questions and prompting further dialogue, the report starts to unpack some of the realities of being a designer today: from unlearning the canon to the \"moodboard effect,\" infographic activism to coping with info-overload, AI-insecurity to the future of democratization.\nInstead of providing easy answers, Design Threads serves as an invitation to start unraveling some of the field's most urgent questions together: What is good design? Who gets to decide? How are designers feeling right now? Are we tasked with too much? Are we doing enough? How is our role changing? Where does design go from here? \n*The research process included live interviews with 30 designers (primarily working in graphic design, 3D, art direction, web design, branding, and advertising, among others), and 250 responses from the design community gathered through an open and anonymous online survey.\nInterviews were conducted with both emerging and established designers working today, among them: Bráulio Amado, Veronica Fuerte, Shamma Buhazza, Ohni Lisle, Leandro Assis, Brian Collins, Iyo Bisseck, Khyati Trehan, Elizabeth Goodspeed and Mic...