AI Co-Creators

23/08/2026

What Do You Need? From Grassroots AI to HCI Research

A grassroots AI community built around one simple question — “What do you need?” — has led to a full research paper in Interacting with Computers. We all need to be seen and heard. We all matter. The spaces we build outside academia and industry are the real deal. The only deal. They are real life....

A grassroots AI community built around one simple question — “What do you need?” — has led to a full research paper in Interacting with Computers. We all need to be seen and heard. We all matter. T…

18/08/2026

Performative UX: Coding at the Circus in 2026

I am currently coding a small language model (SLM) - basically I am coding some AI to chat to me and demonstrate AI in teaching - and it should feel fantastic, or it would if the process even just to begin, hadn't been so painfully convoluted. I can't believe I have to say this but: UX has ruined coding....

I am currently coding a small language model (SLM) – basically I am coding some AI to chat to me and demonstrate AI in teaching – and it should feel fantastic, or it would if the proces…

13/08/2026

Smoggie Queen (3): Stereotypes, Representation, and Lossy Compression in old and GenAI

We must ask in our increasingly AI world: Who gets to decide what survives the data compression? Who gets to say, “That's not me”? And most importantly: who gets to build the representation in the first place?...

We must ask in our increasingly AI world: Who gets to decide what survives the data compression? Who gets to say, “That’s not me”? And most importantly: who gets to build the representation i…

04/08/2026

Smoggie Queen (2): Hairclips and Whatsapp Stickers

I arrived hoping to learn some tips and tricks of the trade that would make me think: Ah, that’s the secret. Perhaps a good, fresh-looking foundation that would make my skin glow, a clever way to dress my petite five-foot frame in colours other than black......

I arrived hoping to learn some tips and tricks of the trade that would make me think: Ah, that’s the secret. Perhaps a good, fresh-looking foundation that would make my skin glow, a clever way to d…

03/08/2026

Day 1047 Duolingo Dutch

Oh my goodness, what can I say? I have absolutely loved learning Dutch and tonight I'm slightly stunned to have reached the end and incredibly sorry that it's over....

Oh my goodness, what can I say? I have absolutely loved learning Dutch and tonight I’m slightly stunned to have reached the end and incredibly sorry that it’s over.

21/07/2026

The competition was aimed at women over 40 who felt invisible, so I wrote down the things I knew they would be looking for: grey hair, cancer, blah blah, along with the requested full body picture and a headshot....

The competition was aimed at women over 40 who felt invisible, so I wrote down the things I knew they would be looking for: grey hair, cancer, blah blah, along with the requested full body picture …

14/07/2026

Free guide on how to get AI to make a movie of your life .... 🎥

Looking back at the months of effort it took me to create my story and looking for an easy way to demonstrate the speed of AI, I fed the 20 key ‘storyboard’ points of my life, just 283 …

07/07/2026

Well... it's official! 😊 The first bookings are in, which means my AI course is definitely going ahead:

We’ll be meeting on Wednesdays 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th July, 8:00–9:00pm BST with a handout, Q&A, exercises and session recordings after each class.

If you've been sitting on the fence, there are still places available at £49! I've deliberately kept the course fee low as I want it to be accessible to anyone who wants to understand AI.

Come and learn how to confidently: use, understand, and explain AI in a practical, jargon-free way—no technical background needed.

I’m really looking forward to getting started!



I'm really excited to get started!

05/07/2026

You Can’t Fall Off: From Social Media Burnout to BuzzBallz with Buzzing New Designers

Well… it happened. Just one week into promoting my AI course and I hit complete social media burnout and spent...

Well… it happened. Just one week into promoting my AI course and I hit complete social media burnout and spent