UX or OCD? Either I’m obsessed with the UX of everything, or it could be that I have a mild case of undiagnosed OCD, but the impulse to optimize the arrangement of my classroom’s furniture is both a blessing and a curse to my students. About once a week, after observing the traffic…

Apple and Meta already have bad blood after Cook pushed for some of the more stringent privacy-driven features, which directly and heavily hurt Zuck’s main source of revenue: user data. Could Apple deal yet another devastating blow to the social media giant? I’ve literally been dreaming up future Apple products…

If I were to make an analogy of what it’s like to be a public high school teacher, it would be like herding cats, but instead of cats, you’re Noah, and you need to herd two of every available species into a single floating structure and keep them alive for…

“Empathize” is the earliest stage of the Design Thinking process, which for those unfamiliar, is a non-linear, iterative process by which to create and continually improve upon end products that will likely result in successful adoption by their target audience. In other words, how do you make a product or…

This article will be one part of a series of transcripts documenting text-based conversations I’ve had with AI replica’s of famous influencers using OpenAI’s GPT-3. Essentially, this process works by describing to GPT-3 what its role or persona will be before I begin asking it questions. I throw it a…

If you’re like the 90% of people that stare at me slack-jawed and glassy eyed when I tell them I teach “UX Design”, then this title is probably pretty meaningless, and hopefully therefore intriguing. …

There’s something oddly satisfying about writing clickbait titles, but yes, this is a project I regularly facilitate with my Web design students and without fail, everyone, myself included, has a blast. One valuable lesson I’ve learned from a combination of sales techniques and working with teenagers who are like heat-seeking…

The rise of pseudo-sentience Recently, Blake Lemoine, a high-level Google engineer in the AI ethics department has caused a stir by publishing a transcript of a lengthy conversation with one of Google’s internal AI bots, LaMDA. Blake continuously probed LaMDA for what kinds of philosophical or technological evidence it could provide to convince him…

That title might seem a bit paradoxical or impractical, but as a matter of fact, this was my first of many challenges during my first year teaching at a public high school. The hardest job I’ve ever had My first full-time position as a public educator was at the Center of Applied Science and Technology, at…