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…
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.) …
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…
“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…
“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…
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…
Everything I learned in Course 3 of the Google UXD program. Check out my previous articles for information on other courses in the certificate.
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A few tips and tricks I learned navigating the 2nd Course in Google’s UX Design Program: “Start the UX Design Program: Empathize, Define, and Ideate”.
As mentioned in my last article, I’ve recently been working through Google’s UX Design course to learn new principles and tools and immerse myself in…
My take on the certificate that’s alleged to “disrupt the college degree”.
In June of 2020, I received an email from a boss at a former internship inviting me to jump on board a technology startup. …
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