Breaking Silos (and Metaphors): Adrian Secord, ‘Roving Engineer,’ Google
The complexities of large-scale design systems and how designers and engineers can find common ground.
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Stories that involve “artificial intelligence” and its application to our work—as a philosophical provocation, as a collaborator, or as an independent agent.
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Unpacking “Craft” in the Software Interface
The more I see craft mentioned as a power of design, the more I feel that a working definition is urgently needed.
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📚 Read This: “Neural networks & the architectural imagination” on Recessed Spaces
A piece of architectural criticism focused on the role of generative AI in the imagination of architecture and the ways that the technology elides questions about whose work went into the image.
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✨ AI-generated Screens and Matters of Taste ✨
Figma has added the sparkle emoji to our design tools. What does it really mean?
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Generative AI and the Urge to Transcend “Human Error”
In some AI discourse, “error” can be anything that’s open to multiple interpretations. In other words, error can be seen as subjectivity itself.
Facing Our Interfaces: Matías Duarte, Google
Matías Duarte on why the interface's only limitation is imagination... and battery life.
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Reshaping our expectations for generative design
From Le Corbusier to Figma, “design is, at its core, a permanently subject-oriented discipline.”
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The Future of Design is Still Personal
Connecting historic conceptions of adaptable design with contemporary visions, looking toward a truly adaptive future.
The Surprising Poetry of AI: BJ Best, ArtyBots
Poet BJ Best on teaching computers to do what humans can’t.
AI, Identity, and Storytelling: Stephanie Dinkins
Stephanie Dinkins unpacks why we should engage with AI, and her experience befriending the AI robot Bina48.
When Buildings Get Bored: Molly Wright Steenson, “Architectural Intelligence”
Designer and professor Molly Wright Steenson on lessons from the early foundations of AI.
How Games Taught Us to Teach: Luis von Ahn, Founder, Duolingo
Talking Turing Tests and gamifying education with Luis von Ahn, co-founder and CEO of DuoLingo.