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AI and Automation Explored
Understand what new AI and automation tools do, where they help and where their limitations matter.
Design and the Web
Explore how the web and digital design shape the tools, services and experiences we use every day.
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Elegant Machines explores software, AI, automation, and digital tools. The aim is simple: publish work that helps readers understand something, make a decision or do something better.
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Software and AI
Useful software and AI tools, assessed with their limitations as well as their strengths.
Design and Web
The tools, standards and ideas behind better online experiences.
Automation
Practical ways to reduce repetitive work without creating a more complicated system.
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