Favorite pieces I've written
Not Losing Ourselves to the AI Storm
Exploring how AI lives in the past and dreams of the future
Digital serendipity: who are we without our algorithms?
How to cope with the downfall of social media
The Direct-to-Consumer aesthetic: how minimalism obscures our identities
What happens when an aesthetic begins to obscure culture & design possibilities?
Why mimicry in digital experiences and the Metaverse turns us off
The rise of 90s aesthetics, imperfection, and simplicity
Design + Art + Pop Culture
The radical elegance of memes for hard-to-describe feelings
Meme creators are just modern-day collage artists
Home Depot’s controversial in-store music reflects a shift in suburban ideals
How their paradoxical 90s pop music disrupts the story we tell ourselves
How “standing still” can make you a more empathetic designer
Hey, I’m still here. I’ve been here all along
Using design to question normalcy: nothing will be the same
New imaginaries for the world we live in
Projects
Using design fiction to reimagine the future of surveillance
Can a user experience be too frictionless and hands-off?
Using MoMA’s collection dataset to visualize whose stories are missing
How art impacts our reference points for marginalized communities
What if Amazon’s Alexa was a plant-pot?
Designing to disrupt AI assistants
What if Amazon’s Alexa was a plant-pot?
What a Kindle streamlines (and what it doesn't)
Misc.
Warnings from Andy Warhol on resuming life during a pandemic and time of civil unrest
Meme creators are just modern-day collage artists
Reasons to eat the damn cookie (book review on Anxious People by Fredrick Backman)
Meme creators are just modern-day collage artists
The Side-Eye: Hands-On Crafting Makes You a Better Designer
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