The second edition of my first book Glut, this revised and expanded version continues the to explore the deep history of the information age. Today’s “information explosion” may seem like a modern phenomenon, but we are not the first generation―or even the first species―to wrestle with the problem of information overload. Long before the advent of [...]
My recently completed dissertation at the Carnegie Mellon School of Design explores the barriers that UX practitioners face in trying to incorporate long-term perspectives into their work. Drawing on more than 100 interviews and workshops with working practitioners, this research explores how UX practitioners might incorporate new methods drawn from the fields of alternative [...]
This week I shared a few remarks at Belgium’s KIKK Festival on new directions in AI-enabled historical research, alongside CUNY’s Peter Aigner. Here’s a rough sketch of my talk.
UX practice stands at a crossroads, as practitioners increasingly struggle with the escalating pressures of industrial capitalism. How might we envision alternative futures for more a post-capitalist version of UX practice?
In an increasingly metrics-driven business climate, UX practitioners face escalating pressures to deliver small-scale results. Is there a better way?
Reflections on teaching a summer course in Design Futures at the School of Visual Arts in NYC.
Reflections on a ten-day course in Transition Design at Schumacher College in the UK.