↪ Replying to @UXCopenhagen
@UXCopenhagen Haha, these past weeks were crazy so I thought I had just missed it 😁
If you say google-de-meet it sounds satisfyingly similar to gobbledygook which is one my favourite words.
Anyway, that is my Friday musing. That is all.
My #UXCopenhagen talk has been published by @snetramelleh!
An emotional talk on abuse and the systems that support that abuse. As designers we have the power to abuse, but how aware are we of when this happens?
Video and full transcript in my post:
axbom.blog/first-design-n…
↪ Replying to @tvrdek
@tvrdek @peeplaja @mayli Thank you for this feedback Jerry! :)
Innan sommaren hoppade jag på att köra min etik-kurs på Nackademin redan i augusti. Då trodde jag först jag skulle undervisa en dag i veckan på plats, och köra halvtid online. Men dagen innan jag gick på semester fick jag beskedet att den skulle köras helt online. 😬
Att på kort tid tänka om en kurs som bygger mycket på förtroende, trygghet och självreflektion, och få den att funka 100% online, kändes onekligen oerhört utmanande.
I onsdags presenterade studenterna sina grupparbeten och idag har kursutvärderingarna börjat trilla in. Jag är hyfsat utmattad men jag tror tårarna skulle kommit ändå. Jösses att det kunde bli så bra ändå.
Vilka fantastiska elever att få prova detta med och vilken enorm öppenhet och oerhört mod de visat. Det här är nog bland det mest belönande jag gör i mitt arbetsliv.
Nästa höst ska ni stå redo att anlita och anställa dessa UX-Designers. De kommer hjälpa era verksamheter må bra och hålla över tid.
Men försök inte förstå bilden. Den är mellan mig och eleverna. 🥰
Extra supertack till Charlotte Hall och Sara Lidbaum som gästade oss.
Overpromised and took on more than is healthy at the start of this autumn. But I made it through 4 weeks of teaching and managing two client projects. Just wrapped up a final workshop.
Tomorrow is grading papers and @UXPodcast work and then I will sleep like a baby this weekend.
Note to future self: don't do this again.
↪ Replying to @cfiesler
@cfiesler @ajplai Wow, thank you for putting this together!
↪ Replying to @marcusosterberg
@marcusosterberg Kan ju inte vara sämre så jag fixade en så'n till mig nu också... 😂
'Ek' is a very common Swedish surname. I always wonder how rules like this come about. Someone (you know the type) takes a _guess_?
In the end, stuff like this should be caught in testing. I've worked with a test lead who was amazing at finding these false assumptions. twitter.com/shirleyywu/status/1300…
↪ Replying to @ajplai
@ajplai Have you seen this one? ethics.fast.ai
@ajplai Really one should read @math_rachel's whole thread announcing it:
x.com/math_rachel/st…
↪ Replying to @ajplai
@ajplai It's actually in the works :) I'll post most of this on a dedicated website.
x.com/axbom/status/1…
Really enlightening thread. x.com/lychee_fan/sta…
↪ Replying to @unknown
@steveportigal @telegram It's akin to gaslighting when it's making me feel a reasoned, self-caring choice is a bad choice.
Hey @telegram, is it really necessary to show this eyesore of a red exclamation mark on the settings icon just because I don't want to have notifications turned on?
Same thing with this notice about sharing my phonebook with the app. Why can't I just say no and be rid of the notification? It doesn't feel like an autonomous choice if you are constantly nagging me. @telegram
↪ Replying to @NewYorker
@NewYorker This reminded me of @ManeeshSethi hiring a "slapper". Back in 2012.
hackthesystem.com/blog/why-i-hir…
Amazon has a sophisticated and secret program that is surveilling dozens of private Facebook groups set up by workers, internal documents and reports show.
vice.com/en_us/article/…
Today my students had their final presentations. Manifestos presented as fairytales, trees, jigsaw puzzles, maps and trains! And I was brought to tears for a while. I love teaching this course so much.
One student expressed a review of the course today as "3 weeks of torture", and thankfully made a point of adding: "but in a good way".
I haven't finished digesting this yet.
These are good privacy principles, but they should already be applied to everyone...
[BBC] Apps for children must offer privacy by default:
bbc.com/news/technolog…
