Weeknotes 2

Beyond Twitter, Design Visions, Ethics of AI weapons and more curious finds!

Nov 11, 2022

Here’s my dose of curious finds this week. Enjoy :-)

Design and Product Visions

I came across this brilliant article by Eleanor Mason Reinholdt this week and I thought it was super topical. Eleanor describes the reasons why to create a vision, how/when, and what could be the form it takes. For many this might not be anything particularly new, but still this is in a sense very core to what is one of the superpowers of design: to imagine what’s next beyond word docs / post-its / spreadsheets and decks, to make intangible tangible and to provoke the whole company with what is possible.

Going beyond Twitter

Musk’s antics lead people to look beyond Twitter. Although the landscape beyond the birdcage feels undiscovered and rough, it also is full of opportunities and interesting things to discover and experiment with.

Algoramus

Going beyond Twitter

Some background Twitter has been my social network of choice since 2009. I have met people there who I became friends with and whom I learned from. I encountered career opportunities there, was swamped with inspiration and silly jokes. I used Twitter for news: it became my main news and (political) opinion channel during the aftermath of the Brexit refer…

3 years ago · Jiri Jerabek

Ethics of AI robotics

Here’s a really good thread on ethical considerations / implications of autonomous robots / weapons. Really topical considering how drones are used in Ukraine

Nicholas Drummond @nicholadrummond

The ethics of robotic weaponry is becoming a major concern as science fiction becomes science fact. So what are the military and ethical issues that will impact their usage? A thread. 1/

Affinity 2

I’m a big Affinity fan and so the announcement of the v2 apps got me really excited. The new UI is way better, more intuitive and makes the tools and tool settings easier to access (I use Affinity Photo and Designer primarily on iPad Pro).