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Apps Gone Wild
What if you could pay to remove a user’s beauty filter on a social media app? What if your dating app integrated with your DNA profile and alerted you before matching with a distant relative? What if actor profiles on IMDB had a “nepo baby” badge?
Designer Soren Iverson shares mockups on Twitter that reimagine the technology we use every day in whimsical—and sometimes darkly funny—ways.
Some are simply delightful integrations (“Can your DoorDasher have a couple fries?”); but at the heart of the project is the urgent question of transparency. What does it mean for us to live in a world with so much digital subtext? Can we co-create an online landscape built on radical honesty? What would it look like?
As for Team Carney, TGIF—we’re going Ghost Mode on Slack.
Spring Buzz 🐝
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups water
- 1 bag chamomile tea
- 2 teaspoons honey
- 2 ounces whiskey
- 1/2 ounce St. Germain
- Squeeze of lemon juice
- Edible flowers and lemon wedge, for garnish
Steps
- In a small saucepan, bring water to a boil. Steep 1 bag of chamomile tea for 5 minutes, then remove tea bag and stir in honey. Allow to cool completely.
- In a rocks glass over ice, stir in 1 ounce whiskey and 1/4 ounce St. Germain. Pour in 2/3 cup tea and finish with a squeeze of lemon juice. Top with edible flowers and lemon wedge, if desired.
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