1. Design is a dialogue in making, where designer proposes ways of living for people to take on and respond.

2. The designer must inquire into ‘character’ in any given problematic situation. Character emerges once a user’s actions are defined by her practical, ethical, and intellectual virtues, and vice versa.

3. Harmony is the driving principle of all design. Design must harmonize the new – the changing — with the old – the unchanging—through artful ways.

4. Products are transitive in nature; they help the individual to connect and relate herself to her roles and environments.

5. Products are resources of actions for people to compose experiences.

6. The designer creates frames for experiences, by defining focal points, affordances, and constraints.

7. An experience is a layered plot, interwoven with simultaneous role enactments and permeable environments. Experience is thus composed of sub-plots, from routine and performances, to narratives and rituals.

9. People can navigate an experience through dynamic agency, with character. They can change their modes based on their priorities, and build up their agency in the situation through dialogue between the self, the product, and the environment.

10. Products make people strategically aware of the complexity of experiences. Through interactive and service products, a person can assess, judge, make moves, and resolve the problematic situation.

11. Products are more than embodiments. they contain symbolic power that can help the self to transcend situations with ritual moments. Products are affordances for meaning making.

*A Manifesto can be defined as a provocative strong statement to express certain ideas, thoughts, emotions and states . I like the sharpness and rigor of  sociopolitical, and elegance and thoughtfulness of artistic manifestos. A design manifesto should carry both these strengths, good argumentation and good representation.