New review! First no. 18: Enshittification by Cory Doctorow 💩 www.first-and-fifteenth.co/first-18-ens... #FirstAndFifteenth #uxmichaelco

New essay! Fifteenth no. 17: On unlearning. Link below. 👇🏾 www.first-and-fifteenth.co/fifteenth-17... #FirstAndFifteenth #uxmichaelco

💥 New review! First no. 17: Research for People Who Think They Would Rather Create by Dirk Vis (with bonus review of BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions) www.first-and-fifteenth.co/first-17-res... #FirstAndFifteenth #BLKNWS #uxmichaelco

Fifteenth no. 16: On the Men (and sometimes Women) Who Corrupted Hadleyburg. Shady CEOs, Sianne Ngai's Theory of the Gimmick, why gimmicks are natural accessories of the tech industry, and a short story by Mark Twain. Link below. 👇🏾 #FirstAndFifteenth #TheoryOfTheGimmick #uxmichaelco

New review! First no. 16: The AI Con by @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social www.first-and-fifteenth.co/first-16-the... #FirstAndFifteenth #CriticalAI #uxmichaelco

I really like BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions: its dialogue with Black history, Black futures, the ease with which Black creativity traverses these oppositional poles; and W.E.B. Du Bois 👈🏾 Peep the essay on Du Bois I wrote 2 years ago. open.substack.com/pub/uxmichae... #ThisIsNotAnAd #BLKNWS

First #16 on The AI Con by @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social — “a wonderful riposte to the magical thinking propelling the indiscriminate deployment of generative AI.” S/O @hypestudies.bsky.social for capturing its spirit. Link below 👇🏾 #FirstAndFifteenth #CriticalAI #uxmichaelco

Distinct “tee-cher, tee-cher, tee-cher” call of a male great tit outside. First sign of spring, courtship, and breeding season. Now hearing a coal tit nearby. Competition is on for this patch of trees! #UKBirding #Birdwatch

Next stop, Scotland! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 I will be delivering a keynote to open day 2 of @uxscotland.bsky.social Wed 10 – Thu 11 June. Over thirty talks, workshops, and case studies across four tracks. Discounts for freelancers. Scholarships also available. uxscotland.net #UXScotland #UXScot #uxmichaelco

These past few days were certainly stimulating, provocative and inspirational at the inaugural NO & __ forum on Technological Refusal at @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social thank you for having me! @danishanley.bsky.social 💥

Design Beyond the Human: essays on activism, anthropology, conservation, creative writing, design practice, design theory, economics, education, environment, ethics, history, indigenous knowledge, law, philosophy, poetry, politics, regenerative agriculture, science, sociology and technology.

What a coincidence, and perfectly timed for the forum at in Maastricht University next month. www.aanmelder.nl/techrefusal

First and Fifteenth returns in 2026. New website, new schedule. 💁🏾‍♂️ www.first-and-fifteenth.co #FirstAndFifteenth #uxmichaelco

No & ...’: A Forum on Technological Refusal, Thursday 5 and Friday 6 February from the Critical Technoscience Platform at Maastricht University. Registration is now open! www.aanmelder.nl/techrefusal #FirstAndFifteenthOnTheRoad

Day out thinking about #BrainRot #AiSlop #CriticalAI

First & Fifteenth, 2025 wrapped. #FirstAndFifteenth #uxmichaelco open.substack.com/pub/uxmichae...

Inspired by @rude1.blacksky.team, I've made my own evergreen reading list — the titles I repeatedly return to and re-read — which are central to my thinking and practice. The service runs on #atproto, made by @cosmik.network 👌🏾 #CriticalAI semble.so/profile/uxmi...

How did my leisure time on the internet get turned into staring at a bunch of inboxes? 😩

#ffconf is the reason I created my @uxmichael.co BlueSky account. 1 year old! 💁🏾‍♂️ 🎂

Back again 🤗 #ffconf #uxmichaelco

Tune. 🎹 www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5WY...

Couple of weeks to go before I’ll be doing a guest lecture at the RCA for their Design Ethics class, part of the Design Futures masters MDes. 🤗 #RCADesignFutures #DesignFutures #HumanDecentredDesign #uxmichaelco

One week left to submit something! What's come in already is 🔥

New publication!🚨 Fungi As Your Futurist by @sporesight.bsky.social 12 fungi-inspired design principles, with contributions from 18 global voices across multidisciplinary design and research (inc. me!) sporesight.co/fungi-futures #FungiAsYourFuturist #RegenerativeDesign #uxmichaelco

Nuh-uh-uh, that’s a chalet. Duvet is the word that French people use when they want to go somewhere quickly or express encouragement.

@lurkmoophy.bsky.social will you be posting that amazing @webdevconf.com intro video online somewhere? I really want to show my ma! 🥲 #WDC2025

@webdevconf.com was so good! Amazing to meet and listen to such talented and lovely humans. Thanks to @lurkmoophy.bsky.social and @alexolder.com for putting such a great event together

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What a day @webdevconf.com #WDC2025 #uxmichaelco A thread 🧵

some fairly twisted examples of AI actors in the "grief tech" space electric talk so far from @uxmichael.co

Thank you @lurkmoophy.bsky.social for being a brilliant host, and to @alexolder.com for bringing us all together for this year's @webdevconf.com 💛🖤 Link to my deck in comments below. 👉🏽 📀 DVD extra: video of my talk at @ffconf.org last year: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fKs... #WDC2025 #ffconf

This Friday. Bristol. There still a few tickets left 🏃🏾💨 My talk? “Death, and how tech forgot about mortality” webdevconf.com

Human Decentred Design (2025 edition): A trilogy in four parts, presented at @contentrising.bsky.social earlier this year at @rbgkew.bsky.social in Wakehurst. 🍃 💚 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTlz... #FirstAndFifteenth #ContentRising #uxmichaelco

nouvelle arrivée dans ma bibliothèque: APOCALYPSE NERDS écrite par @nastasiahadjadji.bsky.social et @oliviertesquet.bsky.social publié par @divergences.bsky.social #FirstAndFifteenth #PremierEtQuinzième #uxmichaelco #CriticalAI

Throwback and reminiscing The Conference, Malmö in 2024: Human Decentred Design, 15 minutes. #HumanDecentredDesign #uxmichaelco #CriticalAI www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRdW...

Thank you @klingebeil.bsky.social for introducing me to HYPE: A Critical Field Guide. 🙌🏾 This will be a very useful pocket-sized reference as I begin to navigate @hypestudies.bsky.social johannesklingebiel.de/portfolio/a-...

@hypestudies.bsky.social is/was a conference with a difference. Non-hierarchical, welcoming and stimulating. After party at a cool little club, and many other (serious) memories. 🕺🏾 👨🏾‍💻 #FirstAndFifteenthOnTheRoad #uxmichaelco

Pulling up to @hypestudies.bsky.social at UOC Barcelona #uxmichaelco #TomorrowsEssaysBeingWrittenToday

Friday 10 October, I will be speaking at @webdevconf.com in Bristol. Tickets and lineup: webdevconf.com My talk “Death, and how tech forgot about mortality” explores digital existence, archival capture, and the fragility of our technological infrastructures. #WebDevConf #WDC2025 #uxmichaelco

Immerse yourself in “Meshwork” by Merve Mepa: a conceptual art installation exhibited at SALT Galata. The piece untangles the connections between ancient weaving practices and complex technological infrastructures. Exclusively on First & Fifteenth. open.substack.com/pub/uxmichae...

New essay. First & Fifteenth. 1 August 2025. In which I discuss Meshwork by Merve Mepa, an installation at Salt Galata, untangling the connections between ancient weaving practices and complex technological infrastructures. #DefyCategorisation #EthnoMathematicsMadeMeDoIt #uxmichaelco

One week to go until Future Days! ✅ Notebook ✅ Pen ✅ Mind open ✅ Laptop closed futuredays.io

Today's newsletter from First & Fifteenth takes a swerve, thanks to April Cools' Club! www.aprilcools.club Dries van Noten! Fashion! Read it now! Thanks to @hillelwayne.com uxmichaelco.substack.com/p/dries-van-...

It most certainly is a challenge building an entire OS for a conference but we're working on it! WDC OS 1.0 has launched, along with out early bird tickets for #WDC2025 webdevconf.com

🌱 Content Rising is a one-day conference for environment and climate creatives @contentrising.bsky.social 📍 It will be on Thursday, 12 June at the Millennium Seed Bank at Kew Wakehurst. 🎤 I will be one of the speakers. My talk is called Human Decentred Design. www.contentrising.co.uk

💥 Newsflash for environment and climate creatives! I’ll be speaking at Content Rising on Thursday 12 June. contentrising.co.uk Follow their account as more details will follow! @contentrising.bsky.social

Fifteenth #15: On refusal It’s out now. open.substack.com/pub/uxmichae...

Monday 17 March, I’m in an online panel on Future(s) of Masculinity, convened by Malmö’s When!When! Agency www.eventbrite.com/x/round-tabl...

What a day. My head is spinning from the ideas, insights and visions shared at #ResearchByTheSea (on and off-stage) — @clearleft.com and @benjamin.parry.is thank you for having me!