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When Tools Shape Thought: Designing with Awareness in the Age of AI

I’m working on designing and developing Songlines, my GPS enabled sound generation app, and I gave each one of these platforms a shot. Same prompt. Different interpretations. The one that came the closest to my own interpretation of how the…

When you’re just starting out in design, it’s easy to equate craft with skill. You think it’s about pushing pixels perfectly, mastering Figma, or knowing every shortcut in the book. But here’s the thing: craft isn’t just skill. It’s the…

Using ElevenLabs to create my own conversation agent. Source documents include my resume, various personality tests and portfolio. I thought it might be a nice way for folks to get to know my work style, what I value and to…

Written in collaboration with ChatGPT and Perplexity Listen to this (recorded using my own voice and ElevenLabs) Why this matters I’ve been a big fan of the sociologist and philosopher, Zygmunt Bauman, for a number of years. His concept of…

So I asked ChatGPT to tell me about the potential impact of AGI on magazine publishing. With the release of ChatGPT 4 yesterday (described here by the team at OpenAI and here by AI Explained) these answers are probably already…

As I was working with The Wall Street Journal last year on their redesign I started to question why and how people interact with the news. When we read the news, what do we do with it? Is it just…