Designing for scale

I ran a workshop at the RCA last week on the topic of scale. I’ve been thinking about this for Continue reading →

Sensitive Abstract

In response to the call for sensitising concepts in the form of designerly abstractions suggested by Yang and others as Continue reading →

Designing machine learning

The relationship between user experience (UX) designers and machine learning (ML) data scientists has emerged as a site for research Continue reading →

Design and AI/ML

The accumulation of enormous quantitative data sets, via digital social media and other systems, paired with recent developments in neural Continue reading →

Cultural Probes

I ran a session on cultural probes with Caroline Claisse last week with some interesting outcomes. My part was to Continue reading →

Ethics and materials

I’ve been making a prototype this week for exhibition in a ‘work in progress’ exhibition and thinking about the moral Continue reading →

Designing with people

Design research is usually understood to be about developing some kind of new artefact. These artefacts can be objects like Continue reading →

What is design for?

I ran a seminar session this week based on Ken Friedman’s well known Design Studies article of 2003 – Theory Continue reading →