Criticism

Proving you're a human on a web flooded with generative AI content

Please scroll to the bottom for news on my next big project, Better Offline, coming this Wednesday! Last week, Sam Altman debuted OpenAI's "Sora," a text-to-video AI model that turns strings of text into full-blown videos, much like how OpenAI's DALL-E turns text into images. These videos — which are usually

What happens when we move beyond our screens and unleash computing power, the internet, and AI into the real world? It starts to get…

We are not minds that happen to have bodies to do their physical work. Rather, we are bodies that seem to have minds. We are bodies in motion that happen to produce a subjective sensation we call consciousness, which gives us the impression that we are something more than, or something other than, bodies. This is the remarkable illusion we call mind. — Simon Penny, Making Sense

There is a fallacy about how domain modelling works, and we need to talk about it. With software design, you're not just solving problems, you can reframe the problem itself. 🧵 /1

Pretend it isn’t there

People using computer systems naturally relate what they are experiencing to what they already know. This general cognitive process can be classified …

How do people learn how to ski? You wear boots and skis. Somehow, you get hauled up the mountain. There's snow or a snow-like surface. Other skiers and snowboarders surround you. You end up skiing—albeit slowly at first. You fall and learn how to fall safely. If you choose to take a group lesson, you join a community of similarly skilled skiers and experienced teachers. And when the class ends, invariably, you join your friends (with more diverse levels of experience) in a less formal learning environment.

The interactive report is a culmination of industry and cultural research with participation from hundreds of designers from around the world. This project is a collaborative initiative from PORTO ROCHA and Float.