defining hackable architecture

Hackable Architecture

How do you make architecture that is adaptable?

Think of platforms, not solutions - overbuild infrastructure, underbuild features

Build with an architecture of layers; enable fast layers to change rapidly (learning); slower layers enable stability

Create seamful experiences, based around behaviour not aesthetics; often includes modular design

Undesigned products, or rather not overdesigned; to invite the user in, to encourage evolution

Define vocabularies, or basic patterns of interaction

Leave space to evolve (if physical/spatial, build with modular shapes which can extend easily

Enable users to manage the at-hand information and interactions; the surface layers

Create an aesthetic of ongoing process

This process implies that the designer provides support, engagement over time etc.