As a millennial who is mostly grossed out by fiction and short-format content, YouTube is one of the most important parts of the internet for me. If all of the streaming platforms were shut down tomorrow I’d be perfectly fine with that. I could even accept a world...
BOOKS
‘The laws of simplicity’: Why is information architecture treated as an afterthought?
After years in my backlog I finally read The laws of simplicity by John Maeda. I was so ready to dive into what I thought was a product design classic on achieving simplicity. It wasn’t. The book consists of mostly personal musings on random topics, most of them...
‘Building a Second Brain’: Reconnecting consumption with the doing
I used to think the only way out of information overload was avoidance: if only I could turn off my phone for days and block the stream to focus on the important. Maybe if I didn’t lose myself on YouTube to indulge in the fine curatorial work of its algorithms that...
‘AI and UX’: Why UXers are key to AI
Just finished reading 'AI and UX: Why Artificial Intelligence Needs User Experience'. It does not talk about Chat GPT –it’s from 2020– but it makes for a decent reading on the not-so-fortunate history of artificial intelligence and a good case for designing it in a...