Elan Ullendorff
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Elan Ullendorff

Designer and Educator in Pittsburgh, PA, they/he

teaching Escape the Algorithm at Penn

A year ago

About

designer/educator, director of product at The Marshall Project, previously at Quartz | internet deep sea diver, aspires to knit a sweater

Side Projects

Ongoing

A newsletter about taking control of our attention and finding a more human side of the internet

2024

A website that tells the story of how people found the website

2024

A podcast that's less of a podcast and more of a mixtape. Each episode is pirated (legally) from an existing podcast you've never heard of and streamed directly from their servers.

2023

to get to know my new neighborhood, i paid a data broker $5 for a spreadsheet of local closed businesses, cross referenced those with their Google Maps listings, and created an interactive map using reviews from the past

a digital seance, if you will

2022

Anti-algorithmic tool for wandering through Twitter that is also an essay about wandering through Twitter.

Work Experience

2015 — 2020

Other roles: Senior Product Designer, Product Designer

Writing

2023

My latest for WIRED: What Google's search history can tell us about its future

Contact

Twitter