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Is it time to break up with Alexa?

Jeff Bezos’s passion project is leading the company to financial ruin, recently amounting to a $10B loss — Just this week, Amazon began another round of layoffs as a part of its plan to cut 18,000 jobs. One of the main casualties? The Alexa team — with over 2,000 employees in this division losing their job. Alexa was a calculated risk taken in order for Amazon to tap…

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Is it time to break up with Alexa?
Is it time to break up with Alexa?
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Is ChatGPT the beginning of the end for major search engines?

How the new AI chatbot could be calling for a redesign of Google and other search engine powerhouses — In the latest of the AI-makes-us-all-look-like-total-idiots saga, the internet has been stumped over ChatGPT and what exactly the platform can’t do. The chatbot has even caught the attention of the New York Times who featured this tweet in its most recent article about ChatGPT and all its strange functions:

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Is ChatGPT the beginning of the end for major search engines?
Is ChatGPT the beginning of the end for major search engines?
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Why the “iPhone App of the year” made $0 in 2022

How “BeReal” became an overnight sensation with minimalist design and zero revenue. — What if social media was actually authentic? French techies Alexis Barreyat and Kevin Perreau decided to find an answer to this question back in 2020 when they launched BeReal, a photo-sharing app that allows users to post one photo a day to show what they’re up to in real-time. The…

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Why the “iPhone App of the year” made $0 in 2022
Why the “iPhone App of the year” made $0 in 2022
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Zuckerberg’s Zeitgeist: A culture of shame, addiction, and dishonesty

And how better UX could help solve the problem. — Once again, Mark Zuckerberg, the tech mogul with a chokehold on the American media, has been caught red-handed at the mercy of the American media. Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal featured a pretty lengthy article exposing Zuckerberg and his team at Facebook for denying the horrific trends involving Instagram among teenage…

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Zuckerberg’s Zeitgeist: A culture of shame, addiction, and dishonesty
Zuckerberg’s Zeitgeist: A culture of shame, addiction, and dishonesty
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Why minimalism never goes out of style

….and what we can expect for the next decade in design. — “Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.” — Coco Chanel Perhaps the most influential quote from one of the most influential people. Literally — French fashion icon and businesswoman Coco Chanel was listed as one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of the 20th century. Chanel is widely known…

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Why minimalism never goes out of style
Why minimalism never goes out of style
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Networking in a remote world: How to get a job in UX with no experience

Using Ken Coleman’s Proximity Principle as a framework to land your first job in user experience During my senior year of college I encountered a catch-22 that is all too familiar to job-seekers, that is: How do I get a job with no experience? I was fortunate enough to have…

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Networking in a remote world: How to get a job in UX with no experience
Networking in a remote world: How to get a job in UX with no experience
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·Nov 20, 2021

Is content strategy dead?

How Meta’s recent switch to content design could reflect a much broader transformation in how we imagine virtual experiences. — A few weeks into the making of the movie “Her”, director Spike Jonze had a revelation. What he had thought would be a groundbreaking piece on the dangers of technology in a dystopian world wasn’t really about technology at all. It was about people. The film is among one of…

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Is content strategy dead?
Is content strategy dead?
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·Sep 29, 2021

Reasons why UX Research may be your calling

A look into why you should consider pursuing UX Research as a potential career path. — 1. You like to be challenged UX Researchers aren’t necessarily easy to come by. That’s because the field is a fusion of many different disciplines. As a UX Researcher, you’ll find yourself wearing a lot of hats. You’ll be a salesperson, pitching your product and recruiting interested users. You’ll be a writer, fine-tuning scripts for your…

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Reasons why UX Research may be your calling
Reasons why UX Research may be your calling
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·Updated Sep 22, 2021

Conversation design, explained

UX’s newest buzzword is the future for building meaningful relationships with customers. — A few weeks back I was listening to The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos (P.S. I highly recommend checking it out if you get the chance.) …

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Conversation design, explained
Conversation design, explained
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·Updated Sep 9, 2021

How human do you feel online today?

“It is the duty of machines and those who design them to understand people. It is not our duty to understand the arbitrary, meaningless dictates of machines.” — Don Norman The irony of UX design is that too often our digital interface, designed by humans for humans, still feels digital…

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How human do you feel online today?
How human do you feel online today?
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Kelsey O'Connor

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