Our interfaces have lost their senses

Close to the Metal — Real Life

The value of reintroducing friction into our interactions with computers

an elegy for the pencil

how computers changed the way we write

Design outside the computer

Your digital UI can come from the physical world.

Feeling of Computing — Conversations

Desktop, Touch, Browser, Now AI? The Next OS in Computing

Explore how AI is reshaping human-computer interaction, from command lines to modern SaaS. Key insights on the next computing paradigm for startups and tech leaders.

All that is solid melts into code

More computer, rather than more human.

Telepath: building a new kind of computer

So, we made a thing: Let’s back up: for as long as I can remember, I’ve been obsessed with computers, fascinated not just by what they can do but what they could become. Like many, I took my early inspiration from science fiction. I dreamed of someday having something like the Enterprise’s computer. And why not? Science fiction has always driven scientists, engineers, and inventors to create real things that change the world.

Feeling of Computing

Feeling of Computing is an online community with a welcoming, cooperative, and revolutionary spirit. We are unified in the belief that the computer is tragically less humane than it could be. There’s a world of possibilities that get more beautiful the further away from the norm you go. We’re here to explore this world together, to discuss ideas about theory and practice, and to champion and support our members’ research and development efforts to reimagine the computer.

AI Agents Will Become the New UI, and Apps Take a Backseat

For decades, screens, keyboards, and structured applications have shaped our relationship with technology. People learned how to interact with computers

Thought as a Technology

Have you ever felt awe and delight upon first experiencing a computer interface? An interface that surprised you with its strangeness, with a sense of entering an alien world?

Alexander Obenauer

Exploring new and renewed ideas for how personal computing and the interfaces we think with can better serve people’s lives – expanding opportunity, agency, curiosity, and creativity.

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

A mere fifteen years ago, computer nerds were seen as m…