Maggie Appleton

Design lead at Elicit | Visual essayist making complex ideas accessible, digital gardens pioneer

🇬🇧London, United Kingdom6 featured talks · 5 events · 3 countries1 with video

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.

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What Maggie Talks About

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Visual thinking: making complex technical ideas accessible

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Digital gardens and the future of personal knowledge management

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Designing learning experiences for developers

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The anthropology of online communities and internet culture

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Bridging design and engineering through illustration

Talks6

Featured Talk

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 ...

beyondtellerrand 2024🇩🇪DüsseldorfMay 2024

More Talks

Designing With AI

SmashingConf Antwerp 2024🇧🇪AntwerpOct 2024

AI and Design

SmashingConf Antwerp 2024🇧🇪AntwerpOct 2024

Product Design

UX London 2024🇬🇧LondonJun 2024

Designing with AI

SmashingConf Freiburg 2023🇩🇪FreiburgSep 2023

The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI

Beyond Tellerrand Düsseldorf 2024🇩🇪Düsseldorf
What events has Maggie spoken at?· 5 appearances · 5 events · 2023 to 2024
EventYearLocation
SmashingConf Antwerp 20242024🇧🇪Antwerp, Belgium
UX London 20242024🇬🇧London, United Kingdom
beyondtellerrand 20242024🇩🇪Düsseldorf, Germany
SmashingConf Freiburg 20232023🇩🇪Freiburg, Germany
Beyond Tellerrand Düsseldorf 2024
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Speakers who appeared at the same event editions as Maggie

SpeakerShared eventsWhere they appeared together
Christine VallaureDesign systems educator | Founder of moonlearning.io, bridging design and development2SmashingConf Antwerp 2024, SmashingConf Freiburg 2023View shared history →
Pablo StanleyCo-founder of Blush (acquired by Figma) | Creator of Humaaans, Open Peeps, design educator2SmashingConf Antwerp 2024, SmashingConf Freiburg 2023View shared history →

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