Featured Writings

Featured Writings

Featured Writings

Not Losing Ourselves to the AI Storm

Exploring how AI lives in the past and dreams of the future

Not Losing Ourselves to the AI Storm

Exploring how AI lives in the past and dreams of the future

Not Losing Ourselves to the AI Storm

Exploring how AI lives in the past and dreams of the future

Not Losing Ourselves to the AI Storm

Exploring how AI lives in the past and dreams of the future

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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