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Alex Gallafent

  • Contributor, Freelance
  • Executive Director, IDEO
Chicago
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Executive Design Director @IDEO. Occasional journalism for @pritheworld and elsewhere, and music/sound design for theater+film.
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How AI Can Help Us Solve the Climate Crisis

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By Savannah Kunovsky, Alex Gallafent, Bryan Walker, Stephanie Sizemore
| UX Magazine Verified
The problems we’re being asked to solve are changing. It’s less about helping partners innovate in incremental ways, and more about big transformational shifts in how we live and work. Two of those shifts: generative AI, and our rapidly changing climate. Together, these two forces are moving both the people’s side of the equation—what we need and how we behave—and the how side of design: what’s possible. A new age is upon us.
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How AI Can Help Us Solve the Climate Crisis

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By Savannah Kunovsky, Alex Gallafent, Bryan Walker, Stephanie Sizemore
| IDEO
Read Time The problems we’re being asked to solve are changing. It’s less about helping partners innovate in incremental ways, and more about big transformational shifts in how we live and work. Two of those shifts: generative AI, and our rapidly changing climate. Together, these two forces are moving both the people side of the equation—what we need and how we behave—and the how side of design: what’s possible. ‍ A new age is upon us.
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The unsung heroine behind the decoding of a mystery language

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By Alex Gallafent
| bbc.com
Image caption One of the few pictures of the woman who worked behind the scenes on Linear B Linear B is an ancient European Bronze Age script, dating back 3,500 years. When a British architect finally cracked it in the 1950s, he was hailed as a genius - but he may never have succeeded had it not been for a woman on the other side of the Atlantic. For years, Linear B was seen as the Mount Everest of linguistic riddles.
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