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Why the internet is full of “digital junk mail”

Navigating the overwhelming abundance of online content: from poor images to disengagement.

5 min readMar 27, 2024

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Digital serendipity: who are we without our algorithms?

The downfall of social media and illusion of delight

6 min readFeb 26, 2023

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The Direct-to-Consumer aesthetic: how minimalism obscures our identities

What happens when an aesthetic begins to obscure culture & design possibilities?

6 min readDec 2, 2020

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Objects in colored starred circles with text “you know you want it.”

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Using design fiction to reimagine the future of surveillance

Can a user experience be too frictionless and hands-off?

7 min readJul 11, 2022

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How not to lose yourself to the AI storm

Exploring how AI lives in the past and dreams of the future

6 min readJan 6, 2024

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Why mimicry in digital experiences and the Metaverse turns us off

The rise of 90s aesthetics, imperfection, and simplicity

4 min readMar 1, 2022

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Owls and a butterfly illustrating mimicry in nature. Text: Are you mimicking me? Stop!

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The radical elegance of memes for hard-to-describe feelings

Meme creators are just modern-day collage artists.

5 min readOct 2, 2021

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Home Depot’s controversial in-store music reflects a shift in suburban ideals

How their paradoxical 90s pop music disrupts the story we tell ourselves

4 min readJun 11, 2021

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Towards Data Science

Using MoMA’s collection dataset to visualize whose stories are missing

How art impacts our reference points for marginalized communities.

8 min readMar 26, 2021

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3D bar graph of the gender breakdown of who MoMA acquires artwork from.

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Reasons to eat the damn cookie (book review on Anxious People by Fredrick Backman)

The perils and liberation of every day being the same.

3 min readDec 31, 2020

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Yuna Shin

Yuna Shin

Designer. Seattle based writer who connects the dots between design, contemporary art, & pop culture. yuna-shin.com. Subscribe to my newsletter↓

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