|||
All sections
All in Essays → Latest in Essays
My Reverse Time Capsule We Live in the Uncanny Valley Now What Eyes Want Are We Ready for This? There Is No Digital World What We Do When We See What If Phones Were Actually Designed for Hands? Can a Robot Do a Designer's Job? A Pep Talk for those Who Work Bullshit Jobs The Last Time Move Slow and Preserve Things Less Doesn't Have to Be More. It Can Just Be Less. From the Desk Of Systems Design is Not Enough Books We Have Eight Years Left First Principles Why I Am Still A Designer Turn It All Off We Write, Therefore We Are Cyborgs The Internet is a Bad Name The World is Crowded and That is Natural The Luddites Were Right We Don't Need More Information The Problem With Design is Designers Think About the Future's Past Encapsulated Experiences 73 Ideas that Should Provoke You Progress Jams The Power of Small Images Other Ways Future Objects Your Phone is Destroying the World The Circle of Now The Riddle of the Square Attention Stewardship This Is Not Good Design Search Engines Don't Work and They Are Not Good The Biggest Dream is of the Small, Simple Life Cross-Examining Coincidence in the Courtroom of Technology That Coincidental Advertisement is Not Just a Coincidence Good Prophecy Doesn't Have to Be Right We Have A Reality Problem Success Mysticism The Place Where We Shelter Active Erasure We May Be at the End of Progress Computer Nostalgia and Malignant Doppelwelts Want to Resist? Delete Your Facebook Account Unexpected and Realistic AI Headlines Introducing The Liminal Facebook Is Not necessary Talking to Machines Behind Every Robot is a Human Unearthed Time Capsules Words Matter Design is Art with Rules A Solution that Doesn't Exist We don't fear the future… A Slice of Life How to Design a Different Future The Magic of Ordinary Objects When the World Around You Shook Unchecked Attention Avarice How to Think About the Future Sympathy for the Sim The Most Difficult Thing About Design Technological Luxury is Powered by Oppression Beneath the Interface Layer How to Get Your Time Back We Are What We Watch Upgrading Our Way Out Time's First Principles Until They All Have Faces Back to the Real Future The Fit Filter Street Ritual The Gift in Our Work Sabbaticalifragilisticexpialidocious! The dream of the Nineties is alive… It won’t be interesting until we can’t see it anymore. Step aside, keep quiet, and listen. Greetings from the Rubbish Patch The Last Thing We Need Enter the Void Perceiving the Machine Where are you, Digital Le Corbusier? Randoposto Keeping the Fire Lit The Power of Perspective Emails are the new blogs. What is an idea worth? We Always Start Now The Designer Stands Firm Etc. Etc. Etc. Advertising is an Anachronism A 200-Word Mixpost The Cost of Cognitive Surplus A.I. is U.I. The way to make good things is to make many things. Neighborhoods, the Anti-Algorithm Everyone is someone else’s marketer… Don't Think About the Future Through the Looking Glass Futures of Making and Being Liner Notes for a Lifetime Mix Thirty-Four (a lifetime film list) Thirty-Four (a lifetime mix) We'll get there fast and then we'll take it slow. The information is not entirely online. "I just want something real to happen." Blackfridaycore We are all working for different futures. Hyper-local NIMBYism (and Other Easy Critiques) The Inexorable March of Convenience 21st Century Simulacra Something Wetter than Pixels A cup of tea and a crowbar materialize in space... Truth and Ditto Take Time Flesh and Machine Going Postal Independent Brains The Disappointment of Now Time-Collapsers, Great and Small On Expertise and Control How to Tell the User's Story Remote Viewing Maybe that acquisition is just good advertising. "Disruption" Guts This Mediated Life Groupthink There’s a person at the other end. More destabilizing ideas, please. We don't solve real problems anymore. Detroit Being Online in 2014 Loves and Resolutions Don't Be So Linear Stuck in Idle Several Things I Have Learned Playing with Data On Digital Davids and Goliaths: Why the Design We Trust Usually Comes from the Little Guy Future Daydream Ethical Technology, 5 Ethical Technology, 4 Ethical Technology, 3 Ethical Technology, 2 Ethical Technology, 1 Smarter, Better Cyborgs How Should We Contain the Cloud The Folly of the Flock We are Latently Enslaved by Our Own Ingenuity Interview with John Maeda Can Any Problem Be Solved? 21st Century Skillset The End of Solitude Time Definitely Has Value The Great Equalizer In Real Life Respond Interview with Silas Munro Interview with Eric Karjaluoto
All in Log → Latest in Log
Sub-Second Orientation Friction Can Be Good Sunk Costs for Spite Dada, Sit Here Mind and Body Design in a Vacuum Clocks You Are Here Quietly Discoverable