I believe designer is the prophet of our time, we predict and manifest the future through our tangible creation.
As a reflection of my design practice, I create and write about absurd artifacts to predict where the future of technology is taking us to.
Toilet paper scroller (2020)
IRIS AI Wearables (2020)
Notification toaster (2021)
Spooky Technology (2020)
We wrote Spooky Technology thinking about the uncanny edge where objects stop feeling inert — the moment a thing seems to know something, want something, or watch back.
I didn't anticipate how quickly that edge would become everyday life. With the trend of agentic wearables, AI is giving hardware a nervous system. Your device doesn't just execute commands anymore; it interprets, responds, and in some cases, initiates. The spirits that animist traditions always attributed to objects aren't metaphor anymore — they're real products now.
Algorithmic Cooks (2020)
Algorithmic Cooks is a cookbook of ChatGPT2-generated recipes that my friend and I actually made and ate. Cotton Candy Sushi, Evaporated Milk Cheeseburger, Pineapple in a Can — AI authored them, we cooked them, and then rated them honestly. What unsettled me wasn't that the recipes were bad — it's that they were almost right.
