Situatedness

Be wary of visions of the future that overlook the value of context and require people to give up aspects of their humanity to better configure with the technology or product.

Technology design should focus less on how to move things more efficiently and more on how to make the right local connections that would have gone unrecognized otherwise.

Work is made meaningful through shared standards of good that emerge from the context of a community of use and of practice. Environments that abstract this intrinsic good end up demoralizing the worker.

The knowledge someone uses to perform an action can live in both the head and in the world. Pay attention to the design possibilities for both.

When designing technology for a community of practice, pay attention to how action is taken, not just what action is taken. The observability and understandability of action in context, its accountability, is a necessary part of how a result is achieved.

The uncertainty of design contexts is not something to shut out. Rather, it can be both liberating (because it creates the potential for choice) and meaningful (because it means working with the forces of the real world and the intents of others).

Lo-fi architecture is shorthand for an approach to architecture that embraces everyday life, with all of its complexity and contingency, as the context of design and looks to create the space for it to unfold.