Designers should work on and care for Lexical Gaps! In a round about way I found my core fascination: let’s understand our world beyond the problems we encounter. It’s a movement that broadens the horizon of designers and thinkers alike from ‘problem solver’ to ‘everything improver’. Lexical gaps are things in our lives that are…
AI as we know them right now, seems like they are smart, lovely, sociable and even empathic. They are not. They only use nice words to statistical rules. So, if AI is ‘faking it’, or ‘pretending’, ‘lying through their proverbial teeth, or ‘performing’, what does this do to us? Can we be fooled and does…
I started ReverWERK, my own Innovation agency for independent, empathetic design, strategy & tech. ReverWERK’s work is human-centered, creative, and curious. We deliver: creative experiences, strategic communication, and trainings for the creative minds. ReverWERK roughly translates to DreamWORK, so pretty much ‘Nomen est omen’, we work on dreams, or your dreams lead to my work.…
Most people look at innovation as a means to reach the next s-curve, or the next stable product- and service lines. These innovative products might result in new business models, new products and new organizational structures to bridge the delta between the old to the new situation. This is however a rather quant and limited…
To truly understand your own work, it’s range and to answer the question what quality is, it’s valuable to regularly look beyond your own industry—and fashion is a brilliant place to start! One of the best sources for insightful content about fashion is Bliss Foster and his wife Daniella. 💃 As a strategist, I actively…
Just going with the memes, so relax. But seriously, what just happened here? A love song to a city, interspliced with a bromance and teenage rap about bigger things and unimaginable things? As an amateur media therapist I could not believe this awkward game of “Tell me you’re generated by AI, without saying it”. 😅…
The art of change has to do with being a good traveller. You need to know what direction you want to go, but also WHEN you CAN, or SHOULD change direction. Pace layering has a wonderful, simple way of showing how change in fundamental layers in our life is hard and why. It also informs…
Vibe coding, vibe designing and agentic coding has laid bare a new field of design: vibe agent assisted market testing. The alcoholic version would be: what if you – as a layman- have a fridge filled with your best spirits, condiments and wines and you just start mixing and tasting without getting drunk with all…
Are you somebody that talks to your office software? “No I mean, select this, and leave everything else!” Well, it seems that the YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN-factor is perhaps one of the neatest A.I. adjacent interface enrichments we’ve come across.Take this wonderful architectural interface by Studio Tim Fu created out of thin air, just…
I’m working on an article on the inherent messiness of our lives and how sameness and uniformity in our society is celebrated to our collective and individual decrement. It’s based on this wonderful conversation with Ron Kersic almost a year ago. The analogy we use is this: like the Wizard of Oz, we try to…
The first pure VIBE research agency? Vibe is externalised instinct, happenstance on demand, crafted artisan bravery and luck by numbers. AI helps the creatively limited, cognitive fatigued, and perspectively perplexed. The pure vibe research agency pushes these concepts in a service with a research flavour. Thoroughly backed by electronic nostalgia, lost inspiration and shaped to…
Your AI might be delusional and its probably done by hackers, confusion patterns and musicians? Your Agentic AI could make important descisions on data that was poisoned at the well and could break the reliability boundaries AI companies have set for them. What if I told you these poisoned models cannot be detected, until you…
Waardevolle kennis, ervaring en mindset lopen vrij rond in Nederland, maar de overheid maakt geen gebruik van deze potentie en richt zich alleen op jong talent. Ik spreek deze experts, pioniers en radicalen in mijn onderzoek naar De Moderne Overheid. Ze willen graag, maar de overheid durft niet? Ziet ze niet? Doet aanames? Er zijn…
Involving and listening to insurance experts might be the best route to quickly, safely integrate new tech into our lives without fuzz. The main problem of new technology is that people are still figuring it out, using it in ways it’s not meant to be used and unwittingly causing real damage. Here’s an anthropological perspective…
When you try to figure out why politicians and municipalities make certain decisions and what information they share among themselves you’ll get nowhere with Google, or Bing, or even ChatGPT. You’ll find nothing useful, or only a few scant news items. BeleidsRadar(.nl) puts an end to these shortcomings! I highly recommended BeleidsRadar for journalists, citizens…
‘Strategies, ideas and projects’ seems to be the core of innovation for most people. True innovation however, is aimed at capability, mindset and transformation of yourself and that of your organisation. Ideas, strategies and perhaps even scale will follow. First, one needs to practice. The anecdote of the image below is about Mischa Elman a…
Entropy is a bitch, and we’re all going to see the effects of it in 3, 2, 1 … Everybody is talking about the avalanche of new, cheaper, large language models (LLM’s) and other AI implementations. DeepSeek, also known as CheapSeek seems to stand out because it’s based on the ‘heavy lifting’ done by other…
START Designing WITH people! Stop designing AT them. 😅 Designers have been tasked with the optimization game for decades now. They filter the needs and behaviours of people through their filters, beit designer, or corporate filter, departmental politics, old fashioned principles, out dated business models, legislation and personal incentives. It’s time to stop eavesdropping and…
Why Do People Expect AI to Create Perfect (Accurate, Not Ideal) Images? I find that expectation a bit disappointing—a lack of imagination, really. Every time, we’re surprised by AI’s inaccuracies, by how it’s not real or doesn’t add up. But you could also say: “Cool, that’s beautiful inspiration.” With just a few words, AI makes…
In Amer’s Podcast I mentioned ‘metabolism’, an architecture movement with principles and perspective that might be applicable in my field of work (Innovation, Design and enterprise Design). Here’s some more information on that notion. See, I get a lot of inspiration from architecture in my quest to better articulate the things I see, but also…