Maggie Appleton
Design lead at Elicit | Visual essayist making complex ideas accessible, digital gardens pioneer
About
Maggie Appleton is a designer, illustrator, and anthropologist who leads design at Elicit and previously served as head of design at Egghead. io.
She is known for her visual essays exploring programming concepts, digital gardens, and the intersection of technology and culture. Her illustrated explanations of complex technical topics have become essential resources in the developer community, and her research on digital gardens and personal knowledge management has influenced how people think about online learning and note-taking.
With 4 talks at SmashingConf and Beyond Tellerrand, she speaks on visual thinking, designing for developers, and the anthropology of online communities.
What Maggie Talks About
Visual thinking: making complex technical ideas accessible
Digital gardens and the future of personal knowledge management
Designing learning experiences for developers
The anthropology of online communities and internet culture
Bridging design and engineering through illustration
Talks6
Maggie Appleton – The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI – beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2024
The web is becoming an eerily lifeless place. Its public spaces are filled with a mix of bad faith actors and automated predators ...
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Designing With AI
AI and Design
Product Design
Designing with AI
The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
| Event | Year | Location |
|---|---|---|
| SmashingConf Antwerp 2024 | 2024 | 🇧🇪Antwerp, Belgium |
| UX London 2024 | 2024 | 🇬🇧London, United Kingdom |
| beyondtellerrand 2024 | 2024 | 🇩🇪Düsseldorf, Germany |
| SmashingConf Freiburg 2023 | 2023 | 🇩🇪Freiburg, Germany |
| Beyond Tellerrand Düsseldorf 2024 |
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| Speaker | Shared events | Where they appeared together |
|---|---|---|
| Christine VallaureDesign systems educator | Founder of moonlearning.io, bridging design and development | 2 | SmashingConf Antwerp 2024, SmashingConf Freiburg 2023View shared history → |
| Pablo StanleyCo-founder of Blush (acquired by Figma) | Creator of Humaaans, Open Peeps, design educator | 2 | SmashingConf Antwerp 2024, SmashingConf Freiburg 2023View shared history → |
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