At the Crossroads: EPIC, anthrodesign and the Return of Anthropology
EPIC is pausing its conference for 2027 just as the Wall Street Journal tells readers to study anthropology. Notes on the closing remarks at EPIC2026, the origins of…
EPIC is pausing its conference for 2027 just as the Wall Street Journal tells readers to study anthropology. Notes on the closing remarks at EPIC2026, the origins of…
Notes from Ted Tremper’s closing keynote at EPIC2026: how the Creators Coalition on AI built a shared vocabulary and a role-by-role map of AI’s impact on creative work.
Notes from Ovetta Sampson’s Mindful AI breakout at EPIC2026: AI models come with values built in, and researchers and designers can work upstream to shape them.
Notes from the Deploying Context plenary at EPIC2026: David Ayman Shamma and Brent Hecht on reframing the problem, the cap on cutting labor costs, and why AI is…
Notes from the Building and Evaluating Synthetic People session at EPIC2026: an AI moderator, synthetic focus groups and conversational personas, and why synthetic people are only as useful…
Notes from the Making Research Legible to Machines session at EPIC2026: from mushroom foraging to satellite imagery, why AI needs human and organizational context, and why researchers should…
Notes from the Modeling Context plenary at EPIC2026: what a map of young people’s statements, privacy-aware sensing and the market for expert AI training data show about the…
Notes from Patrícia Alves-Oliveira’s EPIC2026 keynote: what an assistive feeding robot, a creativity robot built with children, and a co-researcher with lived experience show about the role of…
Notes from the EPIC2026 Prototypes & MVPs session: a belt that senses magnetic north, the silences AI skips, and why judgment about where AI belongs in research is…
Two panels at Women’s Health Advocates in Chicago shared personal stories of breast cancer, maternal health, and fighting to be heard, plus a reminder to vote with women’s…
From Operator to Orchestrator: Automating the work that keeps leaders from customers The line I won’t cross It seems like half the posts on LinkedIn today (at least…
As I write this I have sixteen Claude threads open. They look scattered, but every one ladders up to something I’m trying to accomplish — and I’m the…
Anthropic shipped most of what was on my wish list. Here’s what the merge fixed, what’s still rough, and the one thing that’s an order of magnitude bigger…
People form a visual impression of a product in about 50 milliseconds, and after judging its credibility based on its appearance, they begin to assess the rest. Does…
It used to be that securing consensus and capacity to build a design system was hard. But today, design systems have become foundational to how software gets built…
If you haven’t heard of Heated Rivalry, you’ve either been living under a rock or spending too much time on LinkedIn. Sadly, if you’re reading this it’s probably…
On World Usability Day in 2023, I gathered my User Experience team for an AI Learning session. Members of my team had been experimenting with Adobe Firefly and…
I carried both of my sons. But in order for my wife to become their legal parent, we both had to be fingerprinted by the FBI. When Stephanie…
Before you commission a single new study, institutional knowledge and existing research can give your product roadmap a head start. In Tuesday’s post, I made the case for…
Long before “forward-deployed designers,” I spent two weeks watching enterprise sales reps. Here’s what I learned. At 9 a.m., notebook in hand, I settled in with Steve at…
I’m fifty-six, and I came out at seventeen. I’ve been a bookworm for as long as I can remember, but until a few years ago I had never…
When a company hits the scaling wall, the first instinct is usually structural changes like reorganizing, creating new roles, bringing in a senior hire. Org changes feel substantive,…
Somewhere between $20M and $150M in revenue, most technology companies hit a wall – or multiple walls – in their operating model. It doesn’t show up on the…
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