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Speculative Calendar Events

Designing tentative calendar events to solve complex scheduling problems.

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Ambient Co-presence

Creating a subtle, peripheral, and synchronous sense of shared space and context on the web

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Squish Meets Structure: Designing with Language Models

Slides and transcript from my talk on the challenges of designing with language models

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Language Model Sketchbook, or Why I Hate Chatbots

Sketchy ideas for interfaces that play with the novel capabilities of language models

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The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI

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

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Command K Bars

Command line bars you can quickly summon with a keyboard shortcut.

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Programming Portals

Small, scoped areas within a graphical interface that allow users to read and write simple programmes.

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UX Pattern Catalogue

A catalogue of UX patterns and observations for software, tooling and interface design.

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Spatial Web Browsing

Adding spatial affordances to the experience of browsing the web

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Metaphors We Web By

A history of our metaphorical understanding of the web.

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Visually Workshopping the AWS Cloud

Rather than treating our illustrations as a shiny add-on made by one person, I wanted to directly involve our course instructors.