Lab

Essays

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  2025

  Beyond Vibe-Coding: A Strategic Framework for AI in Design

  How AI can strengthen design influence, and practical methods for applying it in our process.

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  2018

  Exploring the Future of HCI at Dynamicland

  Reflections on visiting Bret Victor’s interactive experiment in Oakland.

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  2017

  An Experiment in Personal Healthcare Protocols

  How can healthcare plans be managed more easily?

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  2017

  Envisioning Change in Science Communication

  Thoughts on iteration, phase shifts, and stasis

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  2017

  Known Unknowns and Unknown Unknowns

  How do we describe what we don’t yet know?

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  2017

  Blended Systems in Design & Biology

  What can designers learn from chloroplasts?

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  2017

  The Soul of a Design

  Is it possible for design to have soul?

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  2017

  Visualizing Levels of Confidence in Science Communication

  How much do we really know?

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  2017

  The Languages of Chemistry: A Review

  We live in a chemical world. How are we currently describing it?

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  2017

  Living, Breathing Products: Thoughts on Organic Design

  Lately I’ve noticed some trends converging into a larger trend that might aptly be described as Organic Design.

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  2017

  Coping with Complexity: A Design Perspective of Biotech and Science

  The biotech world is a fascinating place to be right now.

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  2017

  Aesthetic Biotech: Petunias, Iridescence, and Flamethrowers

  For centuries, plant breeders have dominated the aesthetic plant domain, mostly through hybridization. Orchid breeders, the interesting…

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  2016

  CCL Plant Bio: A space for plant biotech in the Bay

  Around February 2016, I came across a WSJ article about a guy named Sebastian Cocioba, a self-taught biohacker in New York. It explained…

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  2014

  Design Principles in Nature

  What design principles lead to Nature being so incredible?