Assorted Musings (Episode 6)
Recent Tech Bone Conduction Headphones There’s a lot said for noise-cancelling headphones, but I have an ongoing gripe with most…
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Recent Tech Bone Conduction Headphones There’s a lot said for noise-cancelling headphones, but I have an ongoing gripe with most…
What if your AI defames someone? Australia has always had an … interesting … relationship with defamation law, which extended…
Dark Mode in UIs I’ve been thinking a lot recently about dark mode in UI design. Dark mode divides many…
I was recently reminded that even great UX has an implacable foe that it cannot accommodate: the obdurate user. For…
The brain is a funny thing. Since we can’t see into each others brains (well, without the help of MRIs,…
In User Experience, a dark pattern refers to a UX workflow that effectively urges the user to either perform an…
One of the things I’ve learned as a product manager – particularly given a lot of my focus is on…
As a product manager, I’ve become obsessed with the User Experience (UX). One of the most interesting things about UX…
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