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  • Feb 12, 2022

    Overcoming the Scarcity of Context

  • Sep 23, 2021

    Wikimedia's New Leader on Preventing Misinformation

  • Aug 26, 2021

    Jimmy Wales on Constraints for Bad Behavior

  • Feb 13, 2021

    Book Notes: “The Revolt of the Public”

  • Jan 23, 2021

    Privacy and Metadata

  • Jan 11, 2021

    The Assault on U.S. Democracy

  • Dec 12, 2020

    Making a Scene

  • Oct 28, 2020

    Structural Antidotes for Misinformation

  • Aug 1, 2020

    Software and Dematerialization

  • Jul 9, 2020

    The Electronic Whole Earth Catalog

  • Jun 4, 2020

    Addressing Systemic Racial Injustice

  • May 28, 2020

    Design in the Post-pandemic World

  • May 19, 2020

    Five Lessons From the Pandemic

  • Apr 4, 2020

    Nostalgia for the Future

  • Apr 3, 2020

    A Tune For These Times

  • Mar 27, 2020

    Banning Targeted Advertising?

  • Mar 18, 2020

    Come Together (in Information Environments)

  • Mar 17, 2020

    Efficiency and Redundancy

  • Mar 14, 2020

    The Dynamics of Remote All-hands Meetings

  • Mar 9, 2020

    The Quality of Impromptu Online Work

  • Mar 6, 2020

    Legislating the Structure of Information Environments

  • Mar 3, 2020

    Coronavirus and Remote Collaboration

  • Jan 17, 2020

    Reid Hoffman on Language, Big Tech, and Society

  • Jan 9, 2020

    The Pull of the Present

  • Jan 3, 2020

    How Social Media Warps Democracy

  • Dec 31, 2019

    The Golden Age of Learning Anything

  • Dec 19, 2019

    You Are Being Tracked

  • Dec 13, 2019

    Mind Your Manners Online

  • Nov 27, 2019

    Preserving Open Source Software for the Long Term

  • Nov 16, 2019

    Causes of (and Remedies for) Bias in AI

  • Nov 3, 2019

    Being Open to Unsettling Changes

  • Oct 30, 2019

    Binge Faster

  • Oct 25, 2019

    Quantum Supremacy

  • Oct 22, 2019

    TAOI: Facebook’s Electoral Interference Changes

  • Oct 18, 2019

    Paola Antonelli on the Role of Designers

  • Oct 16, 2019

    Perspective on “Digital”

  • Oct 8, 2019

    TAOI: Facebook Hiding Likes

  • Oct 2, 2019

    Collaborating by Default

  • Sep 7, 2019

    The Synthesizers In Charge

  • Sep 3, 2019

    Are Dating Apps Making Marriages Stronger?

  • Aug 26, 2019

    Table Stakes

  • Aug 22, 2019

    Ethics and Patience in Design

  • Aug 14, 2019

    Progress Studies

  • Jul 27, 2019

    Neal Stephenson on Social Media

  • Jul 20, 2019

    Apollo 11 at Fifty

  • Jul 17, 2019

    Designing for Density and Sequence

  • Jul 3, 2019

    The Treachery of Deepfakes

  • Jun 26, 2019

    Design for Long-Term Relevance

  • Jun 17, 2019

    On “Content”

  • Jun 16, 2019

    Information Metaphors

  • Jun 15, 2019

    The Optimism of Design

  • May 27, 2019

    TAOI: YouTube Subscriber Counts

  • May 19, 2019

    Proudshamed

  • May 3, 2019

    Informing and Persuading

  • Apr 3, 2019

    A Change of Mindset

  • Mar 27, 2019

    Daniel Kahneman on Framing and Incentives

  • Mar 26, 2019

    Designers as Advocates of Respect

  • Mar 24, 2019

    EPCOT

  • Mar 21, 2019

    Introductions in the Age of Social Networks

  • Mar 8, 2019

    From the Digital Town Square to the Living Room

  • Feb 22, 2019

    The Cognition Crisis

  • Feb 1, 2019

    Brexit Explained

  • Jan 29, 2019

    Bertrand Russell’s Advice for Future Generations

  • Jan 11, 2019

    The Role of Structure in Digital Design

  • Jan 8, 2019

    A Bold Example of Semantic Pollution

  • Dec 31, 2018

    Book Notes: ‘The Evolution of Everything’

  • Dec 29, 2018

    An Economy of Deception

  • Dec 23, 2018

    A Community In Search of a Home

  • Dec 20, 2018

    Facebook’s Reverse Halo

  • Dec 15, 2018

    The Role of Advertisers in Shaping Digital Ecosystems

  • Dec 3, 2018

    The Eponymous Laws of Tech

  • Nov 28, 2018

    Digital Nutrition

  • Nov 27, 2018

    Kranzberg’s Laws of Technology

  • Nov 16, 2018

    Is It Time To Leave Facebook?

  • Nov 8, 2018

    The Mother of All Demos at 50

  • Oct 27, 2018

    Innovation and the Test of Time

  • Oct 13, 2018

    Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview

  • Oct 8, 2018

    How Do You Know What’s True?

  • Sep 20, 2018

    A Human Queue

  • Sep 3, 2018

    Unfriending the Baby With the Bathwater

  • Aug 31, 2018

    Where Are the People?

  • Jul 30, 2018

    Resilience

  • Jul 24, 2018

    What is a Healthy Society?

  • Jun 24, 2018

    The Purpose of Computers

  • Jun 12, 2018

    Enabling Transactions

  • Jun 7, 2018

    The End of Engagement

  • Mar 28, 2018

    Why Doesn’t the New York Times Have a Digital Design Critic?

  • Mar 8, 2018

    Responsibility

  • Mar 1, 2018

    Book Notes: "Enlightenment Now"

  • Feb 13, 2018

    Growing Your Area of Concern

  • Feb 2, 2018

    The Stream

  • Feb 1, 2018

    The Call

  • Jan 26, 2018

    A Call for a More Holistic Approach to Business

  • Jan 25, 2018

    Prescriptive and Descriptive Labels

  • Jan 17, 2018

    Corporations and the Golden Lotus World

  • Jan 9, 2018

    Invisible Technologies

  • Dec 11, 2017

    Self-image Ideals

  • Dec 10, 2017

    Third Places

  • Nov 23, 2017

    Towards a More Resilient Internet

  • Nov 21, 2017

    Form and Context

  • Nov 13, 2017

    Book Notes: "Technically Wrong"

  • Nov 11, 2017

    Listening to Women

  • Nov 4, 2017

    The Problem Is Not Social Media per Se

  • Nov 2, 2017

    Book Notes: "WTF?"

  • Sep 10, 2017

    Move Fast and Brake

  • Jun 27, 2016

    Of Molders and Dancers

  • May 27, 2007

    Sad for Venezuela

  • Mar 12, 2007

    Deep Context

  • Sep 25, 2006

    Architecture as Cultural and Location Grounding

  • Mar 20, 2005

    The IA Meme

Jorge Arango is an information architect, author, and educator based in California. Read more about me or get in touch.

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