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
Talks11
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
Designing With AI
AI and Design
Product Design
Product Design
Designing with AI
Designing with AI
The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
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Brad Frost
Creator of Atomic Design | Design systems pioneer transforming how teams build interfaces
2 shared events · SmashingConf Antwerp, UX London
Christine Vallaure
Design systems educator | Founder of moonlearning.io, bridging design and development
2 shared events · SmashingConf Antwerp, SmashingConf Freiburg
Pablo Stanley
Co-founder of Blush (acquired by Figma) | Creator of Humaaans, Open Peeps, design educator
2 shared events · SmashingConf Antwerp, SmashingConf Freiburg
Amber Case
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1 shared event · Beyond Tellerrand Düsseldorf
Cassie Evans
1 shared event · Beyond Tellerrand Düsseldorf
Chris Heilmann
1 shared event · Beyond Tellerrand Düsseldorf
Dave Shea
1 shared event · Beyond Tellerrand Düsseldorf
Jeffrey Veen
1 shared event · Beyond Tellerrand Düsseldorf
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