Reviews – DesignWhine

Book Review: The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow

DesignWhine Editorial Team — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 18:47:14 +0000

Most books about artificial intelligence ask whether the machine can think. Cory Doctorow asks who gets to stop thinking, who is forced to keep checking, and who takes the blame when the system fails. That shift makes The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI unusually useful for designers and product teams. AI is marketed […]

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Subframe Review: A Design Tool That Finally Means It When It Says “Production-Ready”

Barkha Sharma — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:46:52 +0000

Disclosure: Subframe is a sponsor of this issue of DesignWhine. Credentials were provided by the Subframe team for this review. All opinions are of the author’s. There is a particular kind of tool fatigue that sets in when you have tested too many things that promise to solve design handoff. The pitches all sound structurally […]

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Book Review: Enshittification by Cory Doctorow – Blueprint for Understanding Digital Decay

DesignWhine Editorial Team — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:09:51 +0000

Affiliate Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, DesignWhine earns from qualifying purchases made through these links at no additional cost to you. Cory Doctorow’s “Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It” opens with a declaration that feels simultaneously obvious and revelatory: “It’s not just you. The […]

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Book Review: The Age of Extraction by Tim Wu – Platform Capitalism’s Quiet Apocalypse and Why We Still Might Escape It

DesignWhine Editorial Team — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 02:27:54 +0000

Affiliate Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, DesignWhine earns from qualifying purchases made through these links at no additional cost to you. The internet promised us democracy. In the 1990s and early 2000s, when we still believed in the transformative power of technology, the narrative was almost biblical: digital networks would […]

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Book Review: Nexus – A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari

DesignWhine Editorial Team — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:13:28 +0000

Affiliate Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, DesignWhine earns from qualifying purchases made through these links at no additional cost to you. When Yuval Noah Harari begins Nexus with a discussion of witch hunts in medieval Europe, you might wonder what 16th-century paranoia has to do with artificial intelligence. But within […]

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Book Review: The AI Con – Exclusive Look at AI’s Grand Illusions

DesignWhine Editorial Team — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 06:44:00 +0000

Affiliate Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, DesignWhine earns from qualifying purchases made through these links at no additional cost to you. AI has been pitched as fate. Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna argue it’s a marketing strategy. The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the […]

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