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the children yearn for buttons, we should listen to them
a ux design-focused investigation of techno-nostalgia in it’s latest form: the yearn for the buttons and the yearn for the days of social media past…
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against the paved web (or, why we can't have nice things)
a ux-informed look at the next generation of persuasive technology, how ‘artificial serendipity’ disguises data exploitation, and what desire paths …
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The Autobiography of No One
Algorithmic Fragmentation, Tristram Shandy & Reclaiming the Self.
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The Theft of Narrative Freedom
The Constant Present, Slaughterhouse-5, Chosen Non-Linearity, Algorithmic Time, and the Theft of Narrative Freedom
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Why “Research” Feels Everywhere
On the Taylor Swift Dubai Chocolate Labubu Industrial Complex, Knowledge Influencing, and the philosophy of mediaton. And why what appears as expansion…
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We Should Have Listened to Taxi Drivers
The loss of socially grounded ways of knowing, and how “navigation” was an early warning signal we ignored because the people raising it didn’t have…
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