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The New York Times just published a very personal essay I wrote. After seeing a video from Gaza of Dr. Ali Alhaj Salem, standing over incubators without electricity, without formula, without breast milk, I’ve thought a lot about NICUs, how they differ, and how they reflect on humanity. Fourteen years ago, my son was born … Continue reading A Tale of Two NICUs @ New York Times
Visit the exhibition at the Jewish Museum in Amsterdam from 19 June 2005—11 January 2026 The installation Imagining Futures. The power of futures thinking in uncertain times explores how people, in times of crisis, can and dare to imagine different futures – and what that can mean for them. The installation presents several people who live in the … Continue reading Imagining Futures: The Power of Futures Thinking in Uncertain Times @ The Joods Museum, Amsterdam
In the aftermath of October 7th, the future between the river and the sea has felt increasingly illegible—narrowed by grief, fear, and polarized certainties. Future Screenshots is a response to that closing horizon. It’s an invitation to imagine again. The project collects speculative glimpses into possible futures—captured as if from social media, protest signs, maps, … Continue reading On Future Screenshots and Political Imagination [article]
Over on UX Collective, I recently wrote about something deceptively mundane: the rage click. You know the move — that frantic, repeated tapping on a button or link that just won’t do what it promised to. It might seem like a small moment, a minor user error, a frustration spike. But when you zoom in, … Continue reading Rage Clicks are Microdoses of Pure Horror [Essay]
Why binary partisanship in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is hurting both sides, and what to do about it. This is our darkest hour, for me, for my children and for my loved ones. We, Israelis and Palestinians who believe in a shared equal society are grieving, we are violently attacked by the warmongers on both sides, … Continue reading Your Empathy is Killing Us
Infinitely scrolling down alternative feeds is getting us nowhere. To reinvent social media, we must imagine new socials. In the past few years, we’ve been experiencing a rough fallout from our prolonged honeymoon with social media. The imminent decline of Facebook and the chaos in Twitter opened the appetite for something different. Many of us … Continue reading No exit — every feed is a traffic jam @ UX Collective
I was super excited to keynote RISD & Brown’s 2022 Better World X Design conference this year and to present my Friction & Flow research on stage for the first time. In the talk I explore many of the topics I am currently researching towards a book. I expand on interaction topics like friction, flow, … Continue reading Friction & Flow @ RISD & Brown
Using Data to Inspire Humans and Baffle Machines.
*I’m experimenting with cross-posting on Medium, let’s see how it goes… Continue reading Re:ambiguation
How the simplistic network diagram came to dominate our imagination and why we shouldn’t blindly go with the flow. Continue reading If Everything is a Network, Nothing is a Network
Enrico Bertini and Moritz Stefaner invited me for a Data Stories interview, their fascinating podcast (I’m a long time fan). We discussed Disnformation Visualization, data activism and budget transparency in Israel and data obfuscation with AdNauseam. Check it out… Continue reading Data Stories Podcast #55: with me
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