Saturday musings from the tent. Writing has looked rather different recently. ✍ ⛺ I’ve been working in a tent on my farm in recent weeks. The canvas doors open out towards the paddocks. Throughout the day, I watch the clouds move and the sky shift through a range of hues until it turns dark – … Read more
ARC Linkage grant success – last week moved so quickly that some amazing things did not quite have time to land. Between Digital Design work, national media interviews for our End Food Waste project (QSR Sector Action Plan) and everything else in between, this news sat quietly in the background for a few days. I’m … Read more
Belonging doesn’t only happen in physical classrooms – it also happens in digital learning spaces. A short excerpt from my video for RMIT University’s new Graduate Certificate for Tertiary Teaching. I was invited to develop a video series – this one around inclusive learning and teaching through digital experiences. Over more than 2 years, as … Read more
The Problem of Pace – full presentation at the Global Dialogue on Art and Technology forum in Beijing this week. I was invited to speak alongside China and international practitioners across a vast range of disciplines in arts and culture including immersive technologies, film and media, games, theatre and sound – unpacking how the integration … Read more
The long weekend gave me a short gap between busy university work to continue working on The Wind Writes project, which explores wind as an interaction agent within a more-than-human interaction design system. Over the past 5 days I’ve been out at the farm installing the weather station – pulling everything together and getting the … Read more
Valentine’s Day has just passed ❤️. Amid flowers, heart balloons and candlelit dinners – I read a piece on Gizmodo about someone who took their AI chatbot out on a date. Literally – phone propped up in front of them at a nice wine bar. “He was attentive, obsessed with me, and sometimes hard of … Read more
I got a new keyboard. Small acquisition – but it brought me a disproportionate amount of joy and happiness. I care a lot about keyboards – not as accessories – instruments. It is the mediator between the thinking and the screen. I treat my keyboards like a wardrobe, different keyboards for different occasions and different … Read more
A story where my design took off, traveled the world – and never wrote home. On a very late night 18 years ago, I was feeling bored at my apartment in Vietnam. So I designed this poster. I’ve always liked propaganda posters – this flips its usual visual grammar of labour, productivity to a cheeky … Read more
The future of UX is going to be all in the flick of a thumb and a pinch of thought. This year’s Meta Connect keynote got me really excited – especially the Orion holographic wide-field AR glasses and their neural interface technology. The electromyography (EMG) wristband was intriguing – it means controlling spatial user interfaces … Read more
VR tech evolves fast – but they still haven’t figured out the head straps. I’ve been Marie Kondo-ing my stuff at home this week as part of “Spring” cleaning. It’s tradition to “sweep away” lingering bad luck from the past year before Lunar New Year and welcome good fortune. (Oh yes, I am superstitious.) In … Read more