Tristan Cooke 

@humansindesign

I promote consideration of humans in the design of the mundane and everyday, because it's important.

Melbourne, Australia
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Joined October 2010
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    22 May 2016

    "How many pictures of trains do we need?" "For text messages?" "Yeah." "9." 🚝🚄🚅🚈🚞🚉🚊🚇🚆 "What about an old-timey one?" "Better have 10 then" 🚂

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  2. Retweeted
    Apr 10

    I genuinely thought this was a photoshopped Handmaid’s Tale meme. But no. It’s 21st century Aussie life.

    Good morning to everyone else to whom this feels creepy, chilling, terrifying, ominous, enraging, despairing and utterly, completely fucking depressing ...
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  3. Mar 27

    Provocative statements in this talk. My top 1: “Very small differences initial conditions can lead to wildly divergent outcomes. So, on a certain level, the only place you can test is production. That has really interesting implications for things like user testing.”

    A clear, thoughtful presentation on designing services. well worth the time to watch and think
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  4. Mar 24

    We need our Jacinta!

    Surely now would be time for Labor or the Greens to present us with a female leader?
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  5. Retweeted
    Mar 18

    "The future of electric cars isn’t Tesla. It’s golf carts" (Not exactly golf carts. But this is fascinating for numerous reasons)

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  6. Mar 5

    Amen 🙏🏼

    Metrics are not objective just because they’re quantitative.
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    Mar 2

    For 15 Minute City-style hyper-local planning to work, says , it must begin with "social relationships as the starting point, to become a vehicle through which you can address questions of social or environmental justice"

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  8. Mar 2

    There has to be a German word for that thought just after you wee, but before you remember you recently ate asparagus.

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  9. Retweeted
    Feb 21

    You wouldn't know it if you only followed the Aus debate, but France's response to the monopoly power of Facebook etc was to implement a 3% tax on revenue, to bypass corporate offshoring of profits. Easy to guess by News/Nine don't want to argue for more taxes, but everyone else?

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  10. Feb 20

    I’m continually amazed that Australia’s constitution names New Zealand as a state that could join if they want to. Which I understand to mean NZ could just decide, at any time, to become part of Australia.

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  11. Retweeted
    Feb 15

    Every time I get one of those auto-generated Cortana emails I think of this passage from Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. Longer source here:

    Screen-shot of a passage from Neal Stephenson's 1992 book, Snow Crash. The quote begins "YT's mom pulls up the new memo" and then describes how YT's mom will game the system that measures how long she takes to read a memo with an estimated reading time of 15.62 minutes. YT's mom thinks about how her manager, Marietta, will think about each staff member's reading length. Anyone who takes exactly 15.62 minutes will be regarded as a "smartass who needs attitude adjustment".
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  12. Feb 13

    Huge recommendation for the podcast “The Test Kitchen” (within reply all on some feeds) for the greatest detailed (and confronting for me) breakdown on the structural racism at workplaces:

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    Feb 9

    What does data look like to you?

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    Feb 8

    I can't wait for this one

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  15. Feb 7

    thanks for the 🔄

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  16. Feb 6

    🙏🏼 for the 🔄

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  17. Feb 6

    You can’t electrify geometry.

    Did you know that electric vehicles still take up the same space? So Tesla is having to urge their employees to use public transportation, run their own private shuttles, and even pay people to ride their bikes to work. Do I really have to say it?
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  18. Jan 25

    “Despite lockdown, store closures, mass layoffs, and global logistics networks that rival militaries in terms of sophistication, eCommerce was less than 1/6th of sales in the US.”

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  19. Retweeted
    20 Jul 2020

    Co-design is a transformative, community-centred design method much discussed – yet rarely practised authentically. Beyond Sticky Notes teaches you what co-design is and how to do it - with useful tips, clear diagrams, and practical frameworks

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  20. Retweeted
    Jan 19

    Oh, hello there sexism.

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  21. Retweeted
    Jan 14

    Are you a refugee or new migrant in Melbourne interested in design and fashion? If you are allowed to study here (I know it's a big if) you can apply to take this two year course for free with and

    The Social studio insta feed. Love fashion and design? Study with us
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