Soft-launching Outboard on the heels of the news that Jonny Ive’s io company will merge with OpenAI, and his design consultancy, LoveFrom, “will assume deep design and creative responsibilities across OpenAI and io” seems like a fine place to start, so here we go!

Many will be cynical about this announcement, but the hopeless optimist in me is excited to see what they’re cookin'.

But why am I bringing Outboard to life today? Well, I’ve been thinking about the future of computing experiences a lot lately, and the discourse I’m seeing is just way too hand-wavey for my comfort level.

So, expect Outboard to focus on the interactions and experiences that are becoming available as we continue to move away from WIMP (windows, icons, menus, and pointers) and into a (hopefully) more empathic, conversational world of computing experiences.