Archive - yemshi yemshi

Not Losing Ourselves to the AI Storm

Exploring how AI lives in the past and dreams of the future

Jan 4 •

October 2023

Digital serendipity: who are we without our algorithms?

How to cope with the downfall of social media

Oct 10, 2023 •

July 2022

Using design fiction to reimagine the future of surveillance

Can a user experience be too frictionless and hands-off?

Jul 6, 2022 •

February 2022

Why mimicry in digital experiences and the Metaverse turns us off

The rise of 90s aesthetics, imperfection, and simplicity

Feb 20, 2022 •

September 2021

The radical elegance of memes for hard-to-describe feelings

Meme creators are just modern-day collage artists.

Sep 28, 2021 •

June 2021

Home Depot’s controversial in-store music reflects a shift in suburban ideals

How their paradoxical 90s pop music disrupts the story we tell ourselves

Jun 11, 2021 •

March 2021

Using MoMA’s collection dataset to visualize whose stories are missing

How art impacts our reference points for marginalized communities

Mar 26, 2021 •

December 2020

Reasons to eat the damn cookie (book review on Anxious People by Fredrick Backman)

The perils and liberations of every day being the same.

Dec 31, 2020 •

The Direct-to-Consumer aesthetic: how minimalism obscures our identities

What happens when an aesthetic begins to obscure culture & design possibilities?

Dec 1, 2020 •

August 2020

How “standing still” can make you a more empathetic designer

Embracing bioregionalism in an attention economy.

Aug 9, 2020 •

June 2020

Warnings from Andy Warhol on resuming life during a pandemic and time of civil unrest

It’s still hazy on where we stand on the progression of COVID-19 cases, but the country is beginning to re-open. Andy Warhol’s Death and Disaster series…

Jun 14, 2020 •

May 2020

What if Amazon’s Alexa was a plant-pot?

Designing to disrupt AI assistants.

May 2, 2020 •

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