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we should all be designing tech like victorian scifi writers
on the joys of pre digital scifi, big tech scifi propaganda, the crisis of adaptation, an app that steals your memories (literally)
Sep 17
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lou millar-machugh (they/he)
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you’re not addicted, you’re devout:
why is apple’s tv adaptation of Asimov's Foundation everywhere right now? this installment dives into techno-mysticism, AGI, ux opacity, and why…
Sep 5
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lou millar-machugh (they/he)
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7
August 2025
your favorite sci-fi show hates poor people
UX analysis of The Expanse and how science fiction trains you to accept surveillance, hate welfare, and love your own exploitation
Aug 25
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lou millar-machugh (they/he)
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July 2025
you can't hide child slavery with liquid glass (but apple's sure trying)
On moving towards an understanding of the designed interface as complicit in neocolonialism. And why I hate Liquid Glass.
Jul 4
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lou millar-machugh (they/he)
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2
May 2025
on critical interface literacy & the history of the designed object
critically-informed co-design, the GUI as a political invention, and building the history of the interface into the collective imagination
May 30
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lou millar-machugh (they/he)
12
April 2025
your video essay could have been a tiktok
On prosocial short-form content, collective knowledge building potential of short form social media, and why your video essay could have been a tiktok
Apr 2
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lou millar-machugh (they/he)
28
7
February 2025
against the paved web (or, why we can't have nice things)
a ux-informed look at the next generation of persuasive technology, how ‘artificial serendipity’ disguises data exploitation, and what desire paths …
Feb 13
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lou millar-machugh (they/he)
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1
January 2025
the psychology of repost warriors
(or, collective knowledge building in the algorithmic age and how the algorithm makes activism a capitalistic competition)
Jan 19
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lou millar-machugh (they/he)
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December 2024
the children yearn for buttons, we should listen to them
a ux design-focused investigation of techno-nostalgia in it’s latest form: the yearn for the buttons and the yearn for the days of social media past…
Dec 13, 2024
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lou millar-machugh (they/he)
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4
November 2024
being performative is good, actually
why you shouldn't post videos of yourself crying online, the economy of affect and the allure of authenticity culture
Nov 20, 2024
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lou millar-machugh (they/he)
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2
October 2024
the plauge of overdesign
why smart devices make us want to throw them out a window, and why anyone thought that they were a good idea in the first place.
Oct 8, 2024
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lou millar-machugh (they/he)
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9
September 2024
in defence of naps
a ux perspective on time screen control apps & the reinforcement of regimes of self control, and an exploration of re-evaluating the way we rest as an…
Sep 15, 2024
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lou millar-machugh (they/he)
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