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Josh Clark at Beyond Tellerrand: "A.I. is your new design material." Photo by Stefan Nitzsche.
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A.I. Is Your New Design Material

Discover the opportunities to use machine-generated content, insight, and interaction as design material in your everyday work.
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The Technology We Deserve

Smart gadgets often abuse their trust or overreach their capabilities. A personal list of favorite fitness devices yields some principles for good product design.
Liza Kindred's Mindful Technology workshop
mindfulness

How to have a healthy relationship with tech

At Well+Good, Liza Kindred describes how to make personal technology serve you, instead of the reverse.
culture

Should computers serve humans, or should humans serve computers?

Nolan Lawson considers dystopian and utopian possibilities for the future, with a gentle suggestion that front-line technologists have some agency.
business

Do You Have “Advantage Blindness”?

Harvard Business Review considers the responsibility of those advantaged by race or gender to acknowledge that advantage—and use it to help others.
Northern lights at Juvet - Photo by James Gilyead
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The Juvet Agenda

The Juvet Agenda lays out the urgent themes surrounding artificial intelligence and machine learning—and presents a set of provocations for teasing out a future we want to live in.
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Politics Are a Design Constraint

John Warren Hanawalt writes that software design is inherently political. Make sure that your software’s politics line up with your own.
Josh Clark at Mind the Product 2017
algorithms

Design in the Era of the Algorithm

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.
Facebook virtual reality
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Climbing Out Of Facebook's Reality Hole

BuzzFeed’s Mat Honan took a world-weary view of Facebook’s boosterish view new technologies.
Xerox PARC c. 1975
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Alan Kay’s Answer to What Made Xerox PARC Special

Alan Kay describes the principles that made PARC so uniquely imaginative during his tenure there.
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Tim Berners-Lee on Everything Wrong with the Web Today

The web’s daddy is a little disappointed in how things are turning out.
Microchip implant
physical ui

Companies Start Implanting Microchips Into Workers’ Bodies

The AP reports that the convenience/privacy tradeoff is literally getting under workers’ skin.
Technology is not neutral—Cennydd Bowles
IxD17

Let's Make the World We Want To Live In

At Interaction 17, we took a hard look at the role and responsibility of designers for helping to craft a good society.
Phone vs whale
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Connected // Disconnected

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.”
Withings Activité smart watch
wearables

Smart Watches, Wearables, and That Nasty Data Rash

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.
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