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The New York Times just published a very personal essay I wrote. After seeing a video from Gaza of Dr. Ali Alhaj Salem, standing over incubators without electricity, without formula, without breast milk, I’ve thought a lot about NICUs, how they differ, and how they reflect on humanity. Fourteen years ago, my son was born
I just published a piece I’ve been struggling to write for months:Unlearning Helplessness: Violence and the Collapse of Political Imagination It comes from a place of deep frustration—with the violence, with the paralysis, with how easy it’s become to accept the unacceptable. We’re stuck in survival mode. Fight, flight, freeze. Again and again. This isn’t
MapFutur.es is an online map that gathers fragments of imagined futures: “future screenshots”—speculative visions shaped as tweets, chats, maps, protest signs, or headlines. They’re not predictions. They’re provocations. They ask: what might still be possible? What futures are already taking shape in how we grieve, resist, and imagine? The Futures Map is nonlinear. It’s organized
Visit the exhibition at the Jewish Museum in Amsterdam from 19 June 2005—11 January 2026 The installation Imagining Futures. The power of futures thinking in uncertain times explores how people, in times of crisis, can and dare to imagine different futures and what that can mean for them. The installation presents several people who live in the
In the aftermath of October 7th, the future between the river and the sea has felt increasingly illegible—narrowed by grief, fear, and polarized certainties. Future Screenshots is a response to that closing horizon. It’s an invitation to imagine again. The project collects speculative glimpses into possible futures—captured as if from social media, protest signs, maps,
Over on UX Collective, I recently wrote about something deceptively mundane: the rage click. You know the move — that frantic, repeated tapping on a button or link that just won’t do what it promised to. It might seem like a small moment, a minor user error, a frustration spike. But when you zoom in,
Why binary partisanship in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is hurting both sides, and what to do about it. This is our darkest hour, for me, for my children and for my loved ones. We, Israelis and Palestinians who believe in a shared equal society are grieving, we are violently attacked by the warmongers on both sides,
Infinitely scrolling down alternative feeds is getting us nowhere. To reinvent social media, we must imagine new socials. In the past few years, we’ve been experiencing a rough fallout from our prolonged honeymoon with social media. The imminent decline of Facebook and the chaos in Twitter opened the appetite for something different. Many of us
I was excited to return to Re:publica to talk about why I think we ve been optimizing technology towards teleportation. Check out the video documentation and the talk description: Your GPS app directs you, turn-by-turn, on the quickest route from A to B. At the same time, it also defines time as the single, non-exchangeable currency
I was super excited to keynote RISD Brown s 2022 Better World X Design conference this year and to present my Friction Flow research on stage for the first time. In the talk I explore many of the topics I am currently researching towards a book. I expand on interaction topics like friction, flow,