Corporation-centered Design
We hear a lot about user centered design, and human centered design, and occasionally about post human centered design: Ways to shift the thinking of designers to the…
Category: digital life
Twitter Reset
As part of revisiting my information diet, and prompted by this Twitter thread with Scott Jenson and Anil Dash, I embarked on a clean-up I had been putting off…
New remote meeting timing etiquette: Start on the hour, cap it at 45 mins
If you read this, chances are you spend a significant amount of your day in meetings — these days, likely video meetings. During the first lockdown, it seemed like…
Better Social Networks
We’ve been seeing regulators around the world taking a strong stance against Big Tech. From China blocking one of the world’s largest IPOs to the anti-trust moves against…
Living in the New New Normal
Please note: This post veers a bit outside my usual topics for this blog, so you can read the post in full on Medium. It’s the year 2019.…
Visiting Casa Jasmina
We lived in the open source connected home of the future. And survived. When I learned about Casa Jasmina (CJ), a connected open source home of the future…
Edison’s phonographs and the Internet of Things
When the first Edison phonograph recordings came out – so the story goes – many were freaked out. You could here the voices of the dead, speaking, singing.…