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Dave Karpf's re-read of the entire WIRED corpus has me thinking about predicting the future.

A deeper understanding of the relationship between seeing and thinking is necessary to designing for sustained attention.

Make it bigger. (18 images)

Image ecology and my top 10 science fiction films.

On my computer is a file named “unpublishable.txt”. Its content is right there on the label: Fragments of unworthy ideas have accumulated there for

Working Spaces and Profound Reads

How details, focus, time, and taste elevate craft.

Current debates* about artificial intelligence circle endlessly around questions of capability, economic impact, and resource allocation – not to

We have only 5 years left to do something about climate change. Depending upon how you define “do something,” we have even less time, possibly only

Relative Dormancy (09 images)

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Technology functions as both mirror and lens — reflecting our self-image while simultaneously shaping how we see everything else. This metaphor of

A few notes and lists from the year 2023.

If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance much less. (19 images)

On the connection between time, skills, ideas, and what makes us truly human.

Persuasion is never one thing. It’s at least two: first, persuading someone to pay attention, and second, persuading them that your thing is worth

scottboms.com is a beautifully-designed personal website.

When I advise that a webpage — like a service detail page — have a maximum main body word-count of 150 words, I’m really recommending that it ask a

If the human eye suffered the same burn-in effect that some screens do, this would be the image now set against everything else for me. For the last

wove.co is a really nice website.

Bots use the internet more than we do; use shapes design.

vasanthayogananthan.com is a beautifully-designed artist's website.

We navigate digital spaces as if they were physical ones. We “visit” websites, “go to” pages, get “lost” in apps, and find our way “back” to...

“We don’t know what people want. We don’t even know what they do.” This confession — which so many clients never truly say but should — drives an

No interface operates in isolation. Everything we make, however contained we may think it is, actually has porous, paper-thin walls between it and

We’ve spent more than two generations and trillions of dollars building the internet. It is, arguably, humanity’s most ambitious technological

A lifelong fascination with technology begins with a single object. Think back to when you were a child, to when you first encountered something

Shapes are mysterious. They are basic, rudimentary forms — simple ideas upon which we build more complex systems of understanding. They are also

I wrote this shortly after the 2016 election. Though it exposed deeper divisions among Americans than were commonly acknowledged beforehand, I

In 2005, I lived high up on a hill in Penang, from where I could literally watch the tech industry reshape the island and the nearby mainland. The

I’ve been thinking lately about friction — not the physical force, but the small resistances we encounter in daily life. The tech industry has made

Ideas don’t stand on their own. When a good idea turns into a good thing, it’s because structure and systems — ones that existed before the idea —

Happy Thanksgiving! Here in Durham, it is close to perfect. Clear skies and heading toward 57°; the aroma of holiday fireplaces is drifting

Every other Tuesday, a few friends and I get together in the evening for what we jokingly refer to as “Church.” We’re all formerly of the fold, so

johannesklingebiel.de is a really nice personal website.

Eric is a Canadian designer, who is passionate about ideas and experience. He studied at the Emily Carr Institute and worked as a painter prior to

We briefly dabbled with smart-bulbs in our house. It did not go well. Why we make these things, I do not know. Why is controlling a lamp with your

When things don't turn out as they were designed, it's because of gaps in collaboration skills, not technical ones.