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UX Lead @Google | @fwa Judge | ex @AKQA

San Francisco, CA
Joined September 2011
Great thread on the 'glory' years of smartphone design...
After the early bricks but before smartphones, there was a stretch where phone design went absolutely catshit bananas (1/?)
Great insights and learnings on developing and launching products with fatal flaws
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Chengdu reveals "futuristic" stations for its first fully-automated metro line dezeen.com/2021/02/01/line-9… via @dezeen
Lovely idea: The Science Museum’s Never Been Seen website shows you objects with zero views itsnicethat.com/news/science…
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Saudi Arabia announces plans for a 100-mile, car-free linear city called The Line dezeen.com/2021/01/13/line-s… via @dezeen
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Amazing use of technology and delight
Introducing Blob Opera 🎶 a machine learning experiment by @daviddotli which you can use to create a song with 4 opera voice types. Share your composition with friends - no music skills required - or get inspired by a festive carol performed by the Blobs. g.co/blob-opera
Stunning visualisation
If you could watch the sky long enough, you'd see that all of the stars are alive with motion. This marvelous @ESAGaia animation shows the actual star positions for the next 1.6 million years. esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Video…
BIG's Incredible Amager Bakke waste-to-energy station combines energy generation with ski slope and nature: dezeen.com/2020/10/21/big-am… via @dezeen
NYC’s new subway tool settles the biggest debate in maps fastcompany.com/90566212/nyc…
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Nice idea: Window Swap - Look through someone else’s view window-swap.com/
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Mind blowing AR:
Automatic holograms from photos can talk now 😉 Adding Facemesh model to the Bodypix and realtime homography to make people out of magazine feel more alive. #WebXR #AR #AI @threejs_org @TensorFlow
Watch an AI Art bot do live sketching...
I made a new thing called "Sketchflix". Based on @mrdoob's multiuser-sketchpad I let an #aiart bot do the drawing using #BigGAN images as its inspiration. And you can watch live and scribble along (until it breaks). Here you go: sketchflix.glitch.me/
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