chrisnoessel

chrisnoessel, 2 days ago to Stockholm

#LivePrompting #stockholm and #FromBusinessToButtons #FBTB2024 spinning it all with #HilmaAfKlimpt

chrisnoessel, 10 days ago to random

Happy mothering day to you, everyone you mother, and everyone who mothers you.

chrisnoessel, 11 days ago to random

It’s small and pedantic and arguably sour grapes, but thinking through the difference between “agentive”—the word I established in 2017 for agent-related design—and the more recent “agentic” word for the same thing, I note that “agent” is Latin in origin, so it’s a better fit for “-ive”, which is also Latin, rather than “-ic” which is Greek.

Festive not festic.
Geographic not geographive.
Agentive not agentic.

chrisnoessel, 15 days ago to random

I just heard an advertisement for the Monopoly app that encouraged users to “begin their billionaire journey" and I could literally feel Elizabeth Magie rolling furiously in her grave. I can't imagine a greater betrayal of the intent of her invention. #enshittification

chrisnoessel, 21 days ago to random

My usual interest in sortilege and Tarot is semiotic, but the interaction design on https://moonlight.world/ is notable, awesome, and worth sharing.

chrisnoessel, 22 days ago to random

chrisnoessel, 26 days ago to random

“House Republicans” in headlines is starting to sound like “Florida Man.”

chrisnoessel, 1 month ago to random

Noodling on ideas for SF Design Week, I made a thing.

Miniver, 1 month ago to random

Fate TTRPG idea:

Scene-setting should include a handful of situational Boosts.

Any character can use them, including NPCs. When they are gone they are gone.

This encourages leveraging the environment early in the scene to get things rolling.

Ultramundane, 1 month ago to random

When the winds picked up, my husband spirited me off to the Wind Harp Tower in Sourh San Francisco to make some field recordings. He had a good mic with a wind guard—my recordings were way too scratchy with noise. But I did get some good pictures.

https://www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/the-wind-is-music-in-south-san-francisco/article_2d16e8cf-b13e-59e4-a8e6-ea04ba395ee1.html

Shot looking up on of the four pillars of the Wind Harp
Wind Harp silhouetted against threateningly cloudy skies
Looking up at the harp from the center, seeing the four steel bar “sails” that help catch the wind

chrisnoessel, 2 months ago to random

Today I went back to Bainbridge’s seminal “Ironies of Automation” and realized that she was writing about “deskilling” all the way back in 1983. (!)

The screenshot of page 2 of the paper, in which the following sentence appears, “If the job is ‘deskilled’ by being reduced to monitoring this is difficult for the individuals involved to come to terms with.”

chrisnoessel, 2 months ago to random

The Design for AI guild at IBM had the good fortune to have Zana Buçina (Harvard PhD candidate) present to us last week about her team’s recent paper discussing the limits of simple, explainable AI (SXAI) in the context of user-goals and user Need for Cognition (NFC) scores. The results suggest…

SXAI most of the time, except…
…low-NFC people should just see an explanation when learning is the goal.
…high-NFC people should get no assistance when the AI is low-confidence and accuracy is the goal.

chrisnoessel, 2 months ago to random

The two Maats—OG classifiers, babeeeee.

apolaine, 2 months ago to random

I have two inventions for you today:

• A brunch closer to breakfast time is a luckfast.

• Waffles made with coffee in the batter are coffles.