Foundations
Featured
When the Map Starts Giving Orders
Hertz billed a Tesla renter $277 for fuel, then cited the closed contract as grounds to refuse a refund. The awkward question for AI is what an assistant inherits when the record it trusts is the thing in dispute.
You're Not Using an App. You're In Its Loop.
McLuhan's slogan still bites, but the medium has mutated. Today it's the adaptive loop of ranking, predicting, and mirroring that shapes what gets said and what survives.
Everything Is Skimmable Now
The internet trains attention toward skimming. Carr said so in 2010. The research caught up. Here's what designers do about it.
Calm Design Dies in Engagement Metrics
Calm design is necessary. It is also not enough. A quiet interface inside an engagement-maximizing system is a lie the product tells itself. Real humane design requires both interaction patterns and incentive alignment.
Featured
Five Papers Before You Argue About Screen Time
The research that cuts through folklore. Better instruments, clearer mechanisms, sharper ethics.
