Cognitive Debt and ChatGPT

Maggie Appleton

Maggie's digital garden filled with visual essays on programming, design, and anthropology

DeepSeek

Maggie's digital garden filled with visual essays on programming, design, and anthropology

The Garden of Maggie Appleton

Maggie's digital garden filled with visual essays on programming, design, and anthropology

Tools for Thought as Cultural Practices, not Computational Objects

On seeing tools for thought through a historical and anthropological lens

Thoughts on Cyberpositionality: The Construction of Digital Communities in Digital Spaces, Damien Patrick Williams

I found Rebecca Monteleone, Martin Perez Comisso, and Elma Hajric’s “Cyberpositionality: Sociotechnical Location in the Digital Age” (2024) to be an extremely timely and important article which can…

The Politics of Design: A (Not So) Global Design Manual for Visual Communication

A (Not So) Global Design Manual for Visual Communication

Notes from my Beginner Computer Literacy Class Part 1 - Alex’s Writing Journal

Helping the uninitiated navigate this brave new digital world

Resonite

A novel digital universe with infinite possibilities. Whether you resonate with people around the world in a casual conversation, playing games and socializing. Or you riff off each other when creating anything from art to programming complex games, you'll find your place here.

High-Tech Anthropology® Process Tour

Come learn about the benefits of observing end users, creating and mapping personas, and assessing iterative designs. Additionally, see the other tools we use and visuals we create to capture and distill information that will help us mitigate the risk of a failed end product. These steps build the foundation for user-friendly designs tailored to target persona(s) – for products that are actually adopted (and even enJOYed!) rather than tossed to the side or treated like paperweights.  

Embodied Experience Design: Thinking Through Tree Apprecation

Bringing together place-based technologies, embodied experience and trees

Emergence: the connected lives of ants, brains, cities and software

In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point…

digital garden

A digital garden is effectively an interconnected set of publicly available notes. You can think of it as a highly personal wiki, except its objective isn’t ...