A reconceptualization of the AAC using lessons learned from Ron Suskind’s “Affinity Therapy” and technological interventions that create more comfort, autonomy, and empathy for children with autism.

AI as Normal Technology and the management processes that need to evolve

Using AI to lighten the load of community care, strengthening the threads that hold us together.

Grishma Rao and Jenna Fizel reflect on their SXSW talk where they had participants make a book using a suite of custom AI tools.

Is a city a skyline or its subtext?

Rediscovering the power and ethics of craft

We spent two weeks researching how dating could feel more social, intentional, and community driven.

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

Decoding the essence of memory with AI in scent replication

The idea of “Folk AI” has been around for awhile. What happens when anyone can create their own personal AI applications? So, here's an AI Chrome plugin that reveals the subtext of websites

These parrots get shit started.

What if you could learn everything you wanted to know about a product just by asking it directly? What would you ask for a pair of jeans, if these pants could talk?

In June, the National Eating Disorders Association decided to shut down an AI-powered chatbot called Tessa. “She” was supposed to serve as a 24-hour counselor for people dealing with eating disorders. Instead, psychologists and activists found Tessa was offering dieting tips.

How we brought a beloved technology back from the dead with AI-generated imagery to envision the future of downtown Washington D.C.

Getting AI to pronounce names correctly.

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.

Everything that surrounds us tells a story, from architecture to the furniture we use to the utensils we eat with and the fashion we wear. Materials help shape those stories, communicating how it’s meant to be used and how it needs to be cared for. Industrial Designers must consider material properties, colors, function, lifespan, and cost-effectiveness when bringing a physical design to market. And digital creators must think about the physical properties as if they were in the real world. At the moment, the only creative constraint is we’re limited to using the materials we know exist. But what if we could wave a creative “I-wish-wand” and design a material first?

So, what would a physical AI camera look like, anyway? Would it have a lens? How would you interact with it? How might AI play a role in the design process? Could it design itself?

Accessing Knowledge Beyond the LLM (aka Grounding an LLM)

Answer: To Be My Sycophant and Publish a Book

Capturing vibes, not photons

How To Use GPT-4 To Improve Your Personality

The Importance Of Explicit Prompts And Generative AI

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Or How Generative AI Can Make Ted Lasso Your New Chat Moderator

A design researcher, a business designer, and a data scientist were sitting at a bar. It sounds like the setup of a joke, but the conversation was actually quite serious.

We’re in the midst of a revolution. Intelligent machines are able to augment our humanity in ways that seem lifted straight out of science fiction. Self-driving cars, bipedal and quadrupedal robots, and even our thermostats learn from us and get smarter over time.

In the top floor of London’s Design Museum, as dozens of visitors walk by and the rain hits the windows, a woman speaks with an AI bot called Spirit. It asks her how many partners she would like to have if she can live until she is 150. She giggles and answers. “Just one—and that is because my husband is next to me.” According to Spirit’s analytics, her answer is 33% sad and 12% joyful.

The chaos began the day we moved into our new building. A little plot of land outside was the scene of the terror. Not only was our Cambridge parking lot too small for the number of people in our office—21 spots for about 60 employees—getting spaces for clients was a pain, there was a pile of poop in spot 16 that even a car couldn’t clear, and a neighborhood transient liked to sleep in spot 20. Instead of managing the workings inside the office, our employee experience team was suddenly tasked with assigning parking spots. It got so bad they were often working as a valet service in addition to their day jobs. So we built a bot to do it for us.