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Mar 22, 2021

Icons in the world

Our lives are not the typical experience for most of human history in a lot of ways. If we want to get perspective on that, we can look at things that have a longer history then one person. Icons have a longer history then most of civilization but have been…

Icons

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Icons in the world
Icons in the world

Mar 15, 2021

Setting the bar low: AliExpress user flow and design patterns

So today I was looking at my phone. Specifically my phone case, and I got annoyed with it. It’s amazing how beat up they get in short order, and how much we ignore it. So I open my goto place for cheap electronics: AliExpress. Now if you have ever used…

UX

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Setting the bar low: AliExpress user flow and design patterns
Setting the bar low: AliExpress user flow and design patterns

Mar 10, 2021

Autoplay in YouTube, a dark pattern

When Google bought YouTube in 2006, it was very young. And I mean young by the standards of tech startups. It went from being founded in 2004 by two guys, to bought in 2006 for 1.65 BILLION. But when it was purchased, it didn’t have any business plan really except…

UX

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Mar 9, 2021

Perfect Information Architecture?

Years ago, a I read a blog post by Jeff Atwood reflecting on creating a login, there he introduced me to a concept that has stuck in my head since. …

Information Architecture

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Mar 1, 2021

Google’s legacy of failure

Google has a legacy of killing off its products customers are using. I was using Google Reader daily when they were in the middle of killing it off, and I still feel its lack in my heart to this day. But today I want to talk about a different failure…

Allo

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Feb 25, 2021

Product Design over time

When thinking about the frontiers of User Experience, it’s easy to get wrapped up in amazing possibilities. One day the profoundly disabled will be able to access anything we can today with amazing voice user interfaces. But between today and that perfect world is a multitude of product designs which…

UX

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Product Design over time
Product Design over time
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