Horizontal or vertical perspectives on history?

It was lovely to meet Jason Mesut again at PaperCamp on Saturday. This is a quick diagram from our chat about how the tech industry orientates its sense of history. The horizontal view makes everything seem likes a coherent linear process. A timeline of development of tools and methods that pass from one generation to […]

Building a better relationship with AI?

I spoke yesterday at the Content Design Club meetup about accessibility and humane design. There is one part of the talk I want to highlight in this post. It is about borrowing and lending. Technologies borrow human capacities to create capabilities that they then present back to human users. Reciprocation as society Borrowing and lending […]

Prototypes anchor experiences

Prototyping matters to the design of new products and services because of the way prototypes anchor research and understanding to human experiences and perception. The prototype helps to solve research problems when dealing with the extraordinary vastness of humans. Human consciousness can move thru time and space. It can access the past thru memories and […]

How the Age of the Consumer became a corporate judo move to avoid responsibility and regulation

This week in the UK, the government has advised citizens to delete cloud-based data so as to save water. Meanwhile, there are stories that more huge data centres need to be built to support AI development. The citizens are being irresponsible. The corporations are being reasonable This is clearly an inverted narrative. It is a […]