As a student of anthropology interested in linguistics and big fan of the work of George Lakoff, I built this prototype with the help of AI (Figma Make) to help me understand sentiment, framing metaphors and splitting language being used by both conservative and liberal media sources. Understanding the language of news is to me, as important as understanding the news event itself. In language, we find community and others like us. It’s where we confirm our biases. Becoming more cognizant of language – especially language meant to split us, seems to be a useful skill in today’s media environment. I used ChatGPT to do the research and brainstorming. Then asked it to help me write up the use case, scenarios and product requirement document – which I reviewed carefully – and then I fed a condensed version to Figma Make and designed from there.
