The people behind the pixels.

Ade Olumide has spent the last eight years making interfaces move in ways that feel less like software and more like breathing. We sat with him for two hours in his Lagos studio on a Tuesday afternoon — Afrobeats low in the background, three monitors lit up with prototype timelines — and asked him to walk us back to the beginning. What he told us about his first year at Spotify, the project that nearly broke him, and the single feedback session that rewired how he thinks about time

Jordan Park spent four years at IDEO learning how to ask questions without poisoning the answer, three years at Apple learning what it means to research at a scale where a single finding can affect a billion people, and is now doing something no one has quite done before: running user research on AI systems that are themselves trying to understand people. We asked Jordan to explain how you study the relationship between a human and a machine that is actively modeling them back — and what they found in the first six months