Play Episode Podcast Can Facebook be fixed? Social media and the unintended consequences of technology in the wild Play Sheryl Cababa is a user experience designer with technology and product design firm Artefact in Seattle who studies the impact… Read More
How Rob Girling, a champion of the infamous Clippy, became a leader in ethical tech For those who remember Clippy — Microsoft Office’s animated paperclip assistant — would you have liked him better as a… Read More
‘All Tech is Human’ event sparks discussion about avoiding unintended consequences of innovation Technology is pretty great, but it can come at a cost. Attention spans addled by screen time and that unreachable… Read More
Geek of the Week: Could we? Should we? Sheryl Cababa asks the right design questions at Artefact Dr. Ian Malcom would get a kick out of Sheryl Cababa. “I jokingly compare myself to the Jeff Goldblum character… Read More
Seattle studio’s ‘Tarot Cards of Tech’ help users see the future, slow down and ask better questions Picture a scandal that has rocked the tech world in the past year or two and chances are the people… Read More
Microsoft design guru explains why originality is ‘vastly overrated’ In the tech community, there are countless entrepreneurs who think they have an idea that’s so original, it’s bound to… Read More
This smart backpack syncs with an app to make cycling easier and safer What if you had a sleek, stylish backpack that synced to an app and signaled while cycling? That is precisely… Read More
Take that, Barbie! Check out this holiday gift guide for ‘little makers’ Mattel faced a huge backlash recently for a passage in its Barbie book, “I Can Be A Computer Engineer,” which implied that girls can’t… Read More
Prototype ‘Purple’ locket brings classic jewelry into digital age We can carry thousands of everyday pictures on the smartphones in our pockets, but what about the traditional notion of a… Read More
Geek of the Week: Lytro Illum lead designer Markus Wierzoch, Artefact design director Camera technology company Lytro is getting lots of headlines this week for its second-generation light field camera, called the Illum — a DSLR-style… Read More
Lytro’s new angle reflects the future of photography Lytro this morning unveiled its second-generation light field camera, called the Illum — a DSLR-style device that creates “living images”… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Radio: Amazon Drones, Artefact’s ‘Juice Box,’ a beautiful app and a classic console challenge We’re getting very futuristic on this week’s GeekWire radio show — starting with our thoughts on Amazon’s surprising “Prime Air”… Read More
Set-Top Box Showdown: A graphical guide to your options [Editor’s Note: Jon Mann is a design director at Artefact, the Seattle-based technology product design firm. This post and graphic… Read More
‘Taste of the Future’: Whet your appetite for our new TV series with this sneak preview It’s time to pull up a chair and sit around the dinner table with a bunch of smart people for… Read More
Wearable computing: How technology will soon be stitched into our lives Ah, wearable computing. Whether it’s geeky wristbands you can wear in the shower or the Seattle bar that’s already banned… Read More
Artefact spinoff launches first product: 10,000ft helps manage projects, people Artefact, the Seattle-based tech consultancy founded six years ago by two former Microsoft product designers, has spun off a new… Read More
Geek of the Week: Artefact’s Fernd van Engelen on design, inspiration and water bottles Our latest Geek of the Week is looking to change the world, one water bottle at a time. Product designer… Read More
