Dave Vondle

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Dave Vondle

Dave Vondle is a director of experimentation and publishing at IDEO, I gravitate toward integrating technology with physical devices. You can reach me at dvondle@ideo.com.

Experiments by

Dave Vondle

Emerging Technology

An LLM-mediated manifesto

How we got an LLM to facilitate group authorship of a manifesto about AI tools.

Emerging Technology

An LLM-mediated manifesto

How we got an LLM to facilitate group authorship of a manifesto about AI tools.

Coding with AI: Reflections on making my first native MacOS app.

Coding with AI: Reflections on making my first native MacOS app.

Figproxy: A free and open tool to connect Figma and Arduino.

Figproxy enables rapid prototyping of tangible user experiences by allowing Figma prototypes to talk to the external world. This article dives into what it is and why I made it.

Figproxy: A free and open tool to connect Figma and Arduino.

Figproxy enables rapid prototyping of tangible user experiences by allowing Figma prototypes to talk to the external world. This article dives into what it is and why I made it.

Design for a cooler tomorrow: Combatting climate change with a next-gen refrigerator. (Part 2 of 3)

In the future our appliances will be able to work together and work differently, supplying us with greater functionality with a much smaller impact on the environment. This installment is about one way this might play out.

Design for a cooler tomorrow: Combatting climate change with a next-gen refrigerator. (Part 2 of 3)

In the future our appliances will be able to work together and work differently, supplying us with greater functionality with a much smaller impact on the environment. This installment is about one way this might play out.

Design for a cooler tomorrow: Why haven't refrigerators changed? (Part 3 of 3)

If you compare a refrigerator from 100 years ago to today, things don’t look that different. In part 3 we address the barriers to novel refrigerator design and share our process.

Design for a cooler tomorrow: Why haven't refrigerators changed? (Part 3 of 3)

If you compare a refrigerator from 100 years ago to today, things don’t look that different. In part 3 we address the barriers to novel refrigerator design and share our process.

Design for a cooler tomorrow: Combatting climate change with a next-gen refrigerator. (Part 1 of 3)

This series starts with the challenge: How might we help balance the load on the electrical grid to reduce carbon emissions?

Design for a cooler tomorrow: Combatting climate change with a next-gen refrigerator. (Part 1 of 3)

This series starts with the challenge: How might we help balance the load on the electrical grid to reduce carbon emissions?

Designing a video game on a very, very small scale

When’s the last time you had to design for something as small as a pixel? In recent years, with the advance of retina displays on computers, tablets and phones, it’s easy to forget that pixels are still the building blocks for everything you see on the screen. (These new displays still use pixels; they’re just so small they can’t really be seen.) In the past, user interface designers had to build to pixel-perfect precision to avoid blurry aliasing effects and issues with displaying fonts on lower-resolution screens; today, this is all but a thing of the past.

Designing a video game on a very, very small scale

When’s the last time you had to design for something as small as a pixel? In recent years, with the advance of retina displays on computers, tablets and phones, it’s easy to forget that pixels are still the building blocks for everything you see on the screen. (These new displays still use pixels; they’re just so small they can’t really be seen.) In the past, user interface designers had to build to pixel-perfect precision to avoid blurry aliasing effects and issues with displaying fonts on lower-resolution screens; today, this is all but a thing of the past.

Emerging Technology

Integrating AI into immersive interactive fiction

At a nondescript payphone booth in Chicago, at the corner of California and Fullerton, there’s a strange payphone that allows you to talk to a robot from the future.

Emerging Technology

Integrating AI into immersive interactive fiction

At a nondescript payphone booth in Chicago, at the corner of California and Fullerton, there’s a strange payphone that allows you to talk to a robot from the future.