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Research is when the act of looking starts producing ideas. You are making connections across unrelated fields, noticing patterns, and building a visu

The opportunity is in moving curated content feeds away from their never-ending-now orientation and towards more goal-oriented interfaces. People shou

The actors of the attention economy use also techniques that promote addiction such as Variable Schedule Rewards. It is the exact same mechanisms as t

People who work in and around climate don’t all believe the same things. Instead, they inhabit a parallel, mirror world that looks a lot like the non-

We have made so much progress over the past few decades, but recent cuts in international funding have disrupted parts of the system supporting HIV te

Agents need a completely different foundation. Instead of visual interfaces like forms, buttons, and dashboards, they need machine-readable interfaces

I had the honor of delivering the graduation address to UW's @hcdeUW class on using our design tools to help us figure out what living a successful li

We become ourselves by helping others become themselves. I became me by helping my brother become him

The great paradox of this remarkable age is that the more complex the world around us becomes,the more simplicity we must seek in order to realize our

despite being concerned about climate, she realized she “couldn’t go back [to] university, spend time to ramp up, become a scientific chemist.” Instea

a world of complex systems in which nobody feels responsible for the outcomes (which can include severely disabled people losing access to the healthc

Working on AI ethics takes many forms, including: founding tech companies and building products in ethical ways; advocating and working for more just