“Touch People’s Hearts.” That’s the translated title of the Chinese edition of my book Tapworthy (触动人心), and I couldn’t be more tickled. Indefatigable translator Jason Bao sent me this copy, and it just arrived today:
Tapworthy is also available in:
Japanese (_思わずタップしたくなるアプリのデザイン, or “Applications you’ll want to tap involuntarily”)
Spanish (Diseño y usabilidad de aplicaciones iPhone, or rather dryly, “Design and usability of iPhone applications”)
English, my mother tongue… and the only one, it seems, where the word “Tapworthy” makes any sense.
Audrey Tang reframes the anxious question of what humans have left in the age of AI: not taste or ideas, she argues, but the accountability of standing behind our work.
Mural’s Aaron Sagray explores what it means to design intelligent interfaces at scale. He says the shift requires designers to reset the mental model of what design is and does.
The New York Times explores the test kitchens of People Inc. to explain the how and why of creating tons of original recipes. (What AI is and isn’t good for.)
