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Young synchronized skaters competing in Greece circa 2016. Creative Commons.An elderly woman interviewed on the recently-added Netflix documentary “Perfect,” said something to the effect: Audiences have higher expectations of younger dancers. Cut to a clip of older dancers struggling to stay in a st..

A few things I have learned along the way about design and business that have stood the test of time.My design career — if I can call it that — has now spanned multiple decades. The first thing I created that I would consider a proper design was a seven-inch record for a friend’s band sometime in th..

Data ethics principles and processes are useful, but they are often of limited use when it comes to addressing the social and environmental harms of the data economy. This post is about using creative R&D to build data technologies that embed a different set of values from the ground up, balancing e..

A collection of handy tips to help improve your designs instantly. Continue reading on UX Collective »

When do we stand up in a design review, present our case, and say “this is a hill I’m willing to die on”?Photo by Mike Erskine on UnsplashI love to talk about designing with constraints. So much of the life of a UX professional is evaluating and compromising technical limitations, time limitations, ..

Of all the risks with adopting a design system, the most dangerous one is to keep working the same way. If that happens, what we have adopted is not a design system, but rather a UI component library. We might see benefits in the beginning: the UI looking fresher and more consistent, components nice..

Here’s what the Covid-19 lockdowns have revealed about teen depression. Continue reading on UX Collective »

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Tokaido Shinkansen launched at Tokyo Station, 1964. SourceIn the late ’90s, Japanese engineers modeled the Shinkansen bullet train after Kingfisher birds to solve one of their biggest problems… tunnel sonic booms. Tokaido Shinkansen is one of the world’s busiest high-speed rail lines. Having moved a..