Writing

A personal weblog in 2025 is both shouting at clouds, and a statement of intent. This site is to catalogue my interest in research, interaction design, and personal thought bubbles that need to get popped somewhere or other.

A line in the sand

June 02, 2025

How do we, as UX researchers, feel about the irony unfolding in our discipline currently? As AI platform CEOs and proselytisers promise a revolution in how companies engage with their users, the more we use the tools they promote, the more we discover that - maybe to our surprise? - the human element has never been more critical.

Notes on the Atlas of AI

April 23, 2025

I enjoyed reading Kate Crawford’s Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence last year.

Plotting the family

January 30, 2025

This is an attempt to run a script on my site that shows the relative heights of all the younger members of my family. I’m hoping that as few people as possible see this, so that I don’t get anxious about putting this info in the public domain.