The WI helped me remember who I am. It showed me what women can do when we come together. Now I want us to bring that collective power to AI so that we don’t repeat the mistakes of technology’s past.
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Tag: human-computer interaction
What Do You Need? From Grassroots AI to HCI Research
A grassroots AI community built around one simple question — “What do you need?” — has led to a full research paper in Interacting with Computers. We all need to be seen and heard. We all matter. The spaces we build outside academia and industry are the real deal. The only deal. They are real life.
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Performative UX: Coding at the Circus in 2026
I am currently coding a small language model (SLM) – basically I am coding some AI to chat to me and use it to demonstrate how AI works – and it should feel fantastic, or it would if all the IDEs were so unnecessarily complicated. UX has ruined coding.
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You Can’t Fall Off: From Social Media Burnout to Buzzing New Designers and AI for ourselves
Well… it happened. Just one week into promoting my AI course and I hit complete social media burnout and spent
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Fresh Perspectives: New Designers 2026
A spontaneous visit to New Designers 2026 became an unexpectedly inspiring evening, prompting me to highlight five standout emerging designers exploring sustainability, wellbeing, multifunctional design and storytelling with creativity, care and joy.
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