Agalia Tan

Anthropic’s sponsoring of and installation alongside “Monet and Venice” is the latest in a litany of attempts by AI companies to purchase cultural cachet. Typewriters, stationery, fine-art museums, the quintessential impressionist painter—these are all associated with taste, beauty, and craft, as well as with intentionality and care, the opposite... See more

I have learned so many things from music about writing. I think there are three important elements: rhythm, harmony, and free improvisation. I learned these things from music, not from literature. And when I started to write, I tried to write as though I were playing music.

We might call what’s going on now “taste-washing,” an attempt to give anti-humanist technologies a veneer of liberal humanism. The Times perpetuated this mythmaking when it launched a poll last week asking users to read passages drawn from well-known works of literature, and passages generated by A.I. , and choose which they preferred... See more

personal data itself became fodder for designers. Long before the era of Spotify Wrapped and Strava PRs, information designer Nicholas Felton’s Feltron Reports (2005-2014) tracked his meals, conversations, music choices, and much, much, much more to create multi-page, one man “annual reports.” Dear Data (2015), by Stefanie Posavec and Giorgia Lupi,... See more

Interviews are much more interesting in longer formats where you get a better sense of the person. I think people have a sense of what feels genuine and the more we experience that (or a semblance of it) the more the canned laugh and prepared question feels uncanny.

Many hours are spent debating the following:

Positioning, Company vision, Company mission statement, Core belief, Brand truth, Brand archetype, Brand map, Brand strategy, Tone of voice, Manifesto to demonstrate the tone of voice, Brand attributes, User personas, Key insights....

Even when agreement is reached on any of the above, the problem with... See more

Groceries have become the next status symbol, given the rising cost of living crisis where everyday spending becomes the new (and likely, only) surface area to flex your status and cultural capital.

In a way, groceries have become accessory.

Following in the footsteps of makeup, beauty, wellness, your grocery basket becomes the reflection of who

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You may be creating a series of moments which will be scripted, but as an experience designer, the experience you create will be what matters most. Your diagram should assist in that process. It lists every scene, and gives vital data about those scenes, but the first thing you notice is the overall intention behind each part - what is more... See more