We are not only "users" of life. But it is still interesting to view life through the lens of user design (UX), and to think about...

The title comes from a Vox podcast interview with Jenny Odell, which also talks about Danah Boyd's notion of "context collapse...

Once upon a time when I went to Ravenna, I did not take a camera. I was lent binoculars and told to not be embarrassed about sitting on the ...

The title is from Horace's Epistulae ( 1.17 ). It is a contested poem - Fraenkel thought it entirely ought of character for Horace, cal...

Let's invoke Shelley. In his "Defence of Poetry" he wrote that learning how to feel another's pain can aid the imagination...