A late 2025 series aiming to break down the technologies that underpin generative AI, Large Language Models, Natural Language Understanding, and Information Retrieval. Featuring absolutely no math, minimal technical jargon, and lots of pop culture.
10.7.21: The last time I'll ever write about Facebook + the third and final installment of UX/UI reviews
Century-old media behemoths are the disruptors of streaming tv, adding intriguing new possibilities to the consumer experience of self-guided television. Surprisingly, they've used their deep media company pockets to serve up some truly delightful UI and advance the medium.
Projector is an alternative to Canva to create images for social media, presentations, web graphics and other impermanent visuals.
9.30.21: Newsies, the Blues Brothers, ghost tv and a graphic design program for the current era.
Powered by Hollywood's priorities of intellectual property rather than Silicon Valley's focus on user experience and innovation, the shifts in smart tv interfaces are palpably different than those on a desktop. Here's how prominent film-focused channels stand up.
What are the conventions of streaming tv interfaces? How do they reflect the content within each streaming service?
How to understand tokens and vector embeddings, for word people.
Even in the face of "black box" algorithms, the history of artificial intelligence—natural language processing, more specifically—has left plenty of clues. While we can't understand the full equation, we can see how building blocks create common patterns in how current algorithms process language.
Infrastructure, no matter how solid or planned or continuously improved, gets messy. Observing humanity in July feels like the ultimate UX research experiment.
July is prime chart-making season. July 2025 is one more chartmaking season that will not be powered by artificial intelligence, and here's why.