Why I am here

I find myself in quite an interesting position. Just a few years ago, on the cusp of 2022, I rebranded myself into an 

information designer, because it best described what I did. I let myself dive into large amount of complex information, find patterns, choose right framing, structure and visualise it — to make it more comprehensible for specific audience, so it can actually have a deserved impact. Think: infographics, one-pagers, visual summaries of important research, policy papers, municipality plans, fundraising for big organisations. Only a few years ago it was quite a specialized kind of work — and, dare I say, it took my big brain and my big sensitivity to make it happen.

Now — you’ve guessed it right — much of that territory is being rapidly taken over by AI.

Having observed this shift over the past few years, my brain can’t hold all the ideas, observations, and concerns about what changes it brings to the design reality and I feel the urge of starting talking about it, but not in a panicky way, but rather: hold on, what is going on here, and how can we make it work?

I’m deeply interested in cognition, psychology, complexity, systemic thinking, and, let’s say, the philosophy of it all. And my tools are visual thinking (which helps), design thinking (focusing on the use and the user of the future design). And my particular focus and interest is in developing and using visuals for human interaction, communication, decision and sense-making.

Let’s explore it together. I promise to do it in ways to keep it simple, short and panic-free inspiring. Ideally, we can figure out how to keep our sanity and stay human amid these amazing new tools that are arriving.

Question of today: AI can definitely do the big part on the left, but will it deliver the sense of meaning and direction on the right?