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The Conversation

Citizen science volunteers are almost entirely white

3 min read · Jun 22nd · The homogeneity of citizen science volunteers undercuts the ability of these projects to bring science to underserved communities.
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matthewstrom.com

Stop brainstorming

8 min read · Jan 26th · Why brainstorming doesn't work - and why to do nothing instead
Reader View · Shared by 156, including Peter Steinberger, Ian M Calvert, Danny Preussler, 🇺🇦 Слава Україні, Stéphanie Walter, Michelle Boisson, Esther Schindler
company culture
productivity
brainstorming
medium.com

It’s 2022, remote UX research should be fast, efficient and cheap… And it is.

6 min read · Jun 22nd · In the last decade, I’ve seen a lot of changes in the research and testing world. When I started out in product design, the options were…
Reader View · Shared by 4, including Michelle Boisson
The Wall Street Journal

The Age of Emotional Overstatement

Jun 11th · From social media to job applications, the pressure to declare our feelings in public is turning us into gushing adolescents.
Shared by 194, including @NFT_NYC #NFTNYC R.NFT R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #Metaverse, Michelle Boisson
digital life
culture
tannerchristensen.com

Systems thinking is what makes designers great — Tanner Christensen

3 min read · May 18th · I used to believe that what made great designers so great was their craft; their ability to add polish and style to whatever they touched. Now I see that what makes exceptional designers so incredible…
Reader View · Shared by 35, including Michelle Boisson, Stéphanie Walter
UX Collective

What is the job of a Design Lead?

~13 min read · Jun 6th · And how can we do it right?
Reader View · Shared by 126, including Neil Lee, Michelle Boisson, Gabriele
design
Neuroscience News

New Theory of Decision-Making Seeks to Explain Why Humans Don’t Make Optimal Choices

2 min read · Jun 7th · A new theory of decision-making helps explain why humans often make decisions that are simply adequate, not optimal. According to the theory, people often use relative thinking when they should use…
Reader View · Shared by 64, including Michelle Boisson, Howard Getson
decision making
A List Apart

Designers, (Re)define Success First

~13 min read · May 13th · Designing ethically may sound daunting at first, but Lennart Overkamp sets forth a template for engaging stakeholders around new priorities, exploring objectives that span from individual to global…
Reader View · Shared by 50, including Aaron Gustafson, Michelle Boisson, zeldman, KOstas, Davor
ux
design
Aeon+Psyche

How to revive your sense of wonder

~17 min read · May 18th · That childhood urge to ask ‘how’ and ‘why’ usually fades. But we can all learn to rediscover the joys of wide-eyed discovery
Reader View · Shared by 195, including Mike Taylor, Michelle Boisson
better living
parenting
Most highlighted
Wonder commonly declines with age – but it doesn’t have to
Pacific Standard

We Are All Confident Idiots

20+ min read · From 2015 · The trouble with ignorance is that it feels so much like expertise. A leading researcher on the psychology of human wrongness sets us straight.
Reader View · Shared by 47, including Leo Polovets, 瑞拿頭, Michelle Boisson, Howard Getson, Keith Frankish, Nir Eyal
psychology
Collaborative Fund

Trying Too Hard

5 min read · May 18th · Thomas McCrae was a young 19th Century doctor still unsure of his skills. One day he diagnosed a patient with a common, insignificant stomach ailment. McCrae’s medical school professor watched the…
Reader View · Shared by 522, including Michelle Boisson, Laugh With Me, Nir Eyal, Morgan Housel
career
better living
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The feeling of power you get from hard-fought experience is stronger than the urge to change your mind, even when it’s necessary.
raw.studio

Spotify’s Embodiment Of Emotional Design

9 min read · May 25th · On average, each smartphone user has 80+ apps on their phone, but only really launch around 9 apps per day. Curiously, I checked my own phone - which somehow holds 148 apps, with only 10 being used…
Reader View · Shared by 335, including Dom Zuend, Michelle Boisson, Stephanie A Kowalski, Abel Caballero Díaz, Neil Hart 💙, David Hellmann
visual design
product design
ux
tannerchristensen.com

What to do about ambiguous design problems — Tanner Christensen

3 min read · May 26th · How do you approach a problem that has no definition, not even a hypothesis? How do you walk into a room of talented and experienced cross-functional peers—engineers, product managers, customer…
Reader View · Shared by 45, including Michelle Boisson
design
tannerchristensen.com

Systems thinking is what makes designers great — Tanner Christensen

3 min read · May 23rd · I used to believe that what made great designers so great was their craft; their ability to add polish and style to whatever they touched. Now I see that what makes exceptional designers so incredible…
Reader View · Shared by 553, including Michelle Boisson
design
systems thinking
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We call this lens of thinking "systems thinking." It tends to separate the genuinely great designers from the pretty-great ones.
Fast Company

A psychologist explains why negativity dominates your daily thoughts, and what to do about it

5 min read · May 21st · Brain science offers strategies that go beyond positive affirmations to create more lasting change.
Reader View · Shared by 581, including Leonardo Sumulong, Michelle Boisson
psychology
better living
Most highlighted
It turns out that we as humans might be built for negativity, making us our own worst enemy. This, as other research casts doubt on so-called optimism bias, debunking the notion that some people inherently “see” life “through rose-tinted glasses.” It’s an unfortunate opportunity loss, as another study found optimism to be associated with “exceptional longevity.”
Fast Company

The world’s newest business school is . . . an art school

3 min read · Apr 28th · Savannah College of Art and Design is responding to the need for creativity in solving urgent business challenges
Reader View · Shared by 4, including Michelle Boisson
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