principles

Machine learning is technology’s new frontier, and designers have a crucial part to play. Josh Clark explores our new roles and responsibilities when we design for the machines.

BuzzFeed’s Mat Honan took a world-weary view of Facebook’s boosterish view new technologies.

Alan Kay describes the principles that made PARC so uniquely imaginative during his tenure there.

The AP reports that the convenience/privacy tradeoff is literally getting under workers’ skin.

At Interaction 17, we took a hard look at the role and responsibility of designers for helping to craft a good society.

The best technologies disappear into the environment to minimize distraction from the content or experience at hand. Yet we design for distraction, and we call it engagement. When you say "engagement," I now hear "theft of attention."

The real luxury of wearing information is not in exposing ourselves to every passing data point but in filtering that data in ways that deliver insight and amplify our humanity.