Observations on the Human Experience
UI, UX and IxD insights for a rainy day.
Observations on the Human Experience
"Nobody reads advertising. People read what interests them and sometimes it's an ad." — Howard Gossage via Russell Davies.
Bluesky
bsky.app
people think they want choices. but they prefer good defaults.
Merge all communication with an individual person into one continuous timeline . I’m excited about this feature. My mom still hasn’t mastered the art of using one communication channel, she prefers to sprinkle messages throughout the week across Whatsapp, SMS and email.
Eric Migicovsky • The Universal Communication Bus
While this wasn't too difficult, it was somewhat demoralizing and discouraging. It'd be better if Anki had a “catch up” feature that would spread the excess cards over the next few weeks in your schedule. But it doesn't.
Nielsen Michael • Augmenting Long-Term Memory
Do not exploit introverts - doesn't work long term. Learn to be an introvert yourself
My Tenets
Making work easier. This is the problem. So obsessed with getting to the answer, completing the project, producing a result which are all valid things, but not where the richness of the human experience lies.
Jerry Seinfeld's Speech At Duke's 2024 Commencement (Transcript)
The act of measurement changes the behavior of the thing being measured.
Youngme Moon • Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd
People don’t want to be filmed, this is especially prevalent since the zoom meeting era during the Covid pandemic.