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Wicked Problems – Pandemic Edition: Education

If there is one thing we can learn from the pandemic it is that Everything Is Broken.. Public health, health care, education, supply chains, work, justice, democracy, economic inequality…our electric grid. Pandemic didn’t cause these but the crisis exposed problems

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A UX Hiring Manager Perspective

A year into pandemic work-from-home, UX Designers can be counted lucky that we have a job that affords that. Though we will be more productive and creative when we can do in-person design sprints, contextual inquiries, interviews and usability tests,

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Precedented!!

Sorry, this is only tangentially related to Design, but allow me to digress. I’ll bring it around. If Pandemic Lockdown wasn’t enough, now, in Texas, we have Ice Storm Lockdown with bonus rolling blackouts. If your pandemic hoard is gone,

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Music for Shut-ins

Music for Shut-ins

For about 20 years I was a Freeform American Roots DJ on a college/community radio station in San Antonio. The show was Third Coast Music Network, which started as “Joe X By God Horn’s World Famous Texas Music Show” Sunday nights

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Migrated to a new host

Finally (after 13 years with tcmnradio.com!) moving off Startlogic to A2Hosting, at less than third of the cost. The move was a pain in the ass…Wordpress is very finicky with settings, and themes that break the whole site and you

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UX Design is Killing People

Yes, clickbait title, but let me explain. Thanks to Roger for pointing out the Boeing 737Max/MCAS testimony. Yes, the MCAS worked perfectly fine by itself–it did not fail. The 737 Max system as a whole failed, and 346 people died. The

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Design Thinking for Democracy

I recently came across a click-baity blog post about how poor UX is the root of poor democracy. OK, yet another wide-eyed designer opines how design can solve the world’s problems. And yet another article that does our profession a disservice

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Fun with Amazon Reviews

As close to a literal “laugh out loud” I’ve seen on the web in a while — 58 answers to a customer’s question:  “Will this mouse pad work with my Mac?” More fun with Amazon Reviews: Reddit topic The funniest Amazon product

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Designing for Millennials

Summary: don’t design for Millennials; design for millennials’ tasks and you’ll likely find they’re universal. Since I changed my work email, I haven’t been getting the NNG Alertbox, I checked it out today and found an interesting article about millennials.

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Introduction

Hi, I’m Paul Daly, a User Experience professional in Austin Texas. I come from an applied psychology background; working in military human factors, instructional system design, desktop GUI and web design–with a little embedded mobile thrown in as well. My

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