Product design at ought.org
Makes visual essays about UX, programming, and anthropology.
Adores digital gardening 🌱, end-user development, and embodied cognition
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Dug through an old external drive last week and found a long lost gem!
In high school I went through a phase of elaborately redesigning my desktop and keeping a screenshot record each time.
Much skeuomorphism. Many novelty icons. I miss this time.
Personal communication when we all have personalised language models embedded in email.
OG idea not mine. Saw something akin to this on twitter last week but can't find it now! Recreated for @[email protected]
Point me to the original if you know it.
Mislabeled tools for thought on http://hive.one. (Almost) everyone on this list is pursuing collaborative TFT and collective intelligence over personal.
Which rogue LLM card sorted these community categories?
Finding the right people to follow on Twitter can be tricky. Our algorithm tracks Twitter communities and who they pay attention to – creating intuitive ranked lists to help you choose who to follow
A small but beautiful project by Rauno Freiberg: https://uiplaybook.dev/
Pattern library of common UI components. With a detailed breakdown of expected functionality, best practices, accessibility concerns, and implementation tips for each.
Great example of 💯 design docs
Speculative near future search results: certified humans vs. language model generations.
Almost impossible to imagine us developing a system where this is really enforceable or feasible. But I'm sure we'll see a few attempts.
The Christmas reading haul:
Atlas of Anomalous AI - https://ignota.org/products/atlas-of-anomalous-ai
A social history of truth - https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo3626633.html
Supersizing the mind - https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/3697056-supersizing-the-mind
The empathy diaries - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/585731/the-empathy-diaries-by-sherry-turkle/
What did you get?
Speculative designs for LLM-powered tweet generators feel like dire premonitions.
Never have to form your own opinions or takes. Just rely on banal remixes of existing tropes and egregores to pump that view count.
Finally adding Webmentions (http://indieweb.org/Webmention) to the garden. Long overdue!
Still in the janky "just get things on the page" stage of designs, but thrilled it's working
Using http://brid.gy to pull in from Twitter + Mastodon
