What design research can learn from Socrates’ sneakers

Design research meets Greek philosophy.

Vincent Baas
UX Collective
Published in
6 min readApr 20, 2021

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Design research and Greek philosophy have more in common than you think.

Statue of Socrates holding a Sharpie and a book
Can you imagine Socrates as a designer?

In high school, I skipped the philosophy elective and in university philosophy of technology wasn’t necessarily my favorite subject. I also dropped classical Greek in favor of Latin (duh!). So Greek…

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