Thinking space
Panoptia is named after Argos Panoptes, the all-seeing. A watchman with many eyes, never all of them asleep at once. That is how we work – looking and weighing from several disciplines, until perspectives and experience produce decisions.
Companies are living through large shifts in technology, leadership and culture, opening up new business fields or modernising what they have. We work inside those tensions, with a current and sharp view from outside.
As strategically working advisors and builders we support companies and organisations in developing and assessing products and services within their overall strategy. The positions and readings of current developments that come out of that work – our field notes offer a current view into it.
Field Notes
In 1995, Mark Weiser and John Seely Brown formulated a counter-model to the attention economy – before it existed. Now, as AI interfaces compete for our attention, their principles are more relevant than ever. Technology should work at the periphery, not at the center.
AI ethics keeps producing guidelines – and changing little. Critical Theory from the Frankfurt School offers an analytical toolkit that explains why. Four missing modes of analysis.
Claude now generates interactive charts and diagrams in chat. Sounds like a feature – it's a paradigm shift. Not just for designers: data-driven communication becomes accessible to every knowledge worker. What this changes, who it overwhelms, and why design matters more now, not less.