When I started this blog in 2010, the first article was called “Form follows Function – or does it?”.
I’ve been fascinated by the idea of form following function ever since – and have been trying to work out what might follow function itself.
And so, earlier this year, I played around with the idea with a few friends that there might be a sequence:
- Form follows Function
- Function follows Flow
- Flow follows Focus
- Focus follows Foresight
I presented these ideas at a recent workshop that I was running and Brian Condon, a good friend and one of the participants said that the one “F” word that was missing was feedback!
Now, feedback is different. It can follow anything. So here is a diagram that shows these six ideas: