UX Collective
Beyond the Experience: designing for emotional impact
7 min read · Oct 21st · Delighting the user is a key goal when designing experiences. Brands spend a lot of time and effort creating engaging user experiences…
The Verge
Students who grew up with search engines might change STEM education forever
9 min read · Sep 22nd · Professors are struggling to teach Gen Z
Input
Paradise lost: The rise and ruin of Couchsurfing.com
20+ min read · Sep 15th · The once-utopian accommodations site, now headed by a Palantir alum, has gone back on its always-free ethos.
Phys.org
Music download patterns found to resemble infectious disease epidemic curves
2 min read · Sep 22nd · A team of mathematicians at the McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind in Canada, has found that music download patterns resemble the patterns found in disease epidemics. In their paper published…
UX Collective
The world needs a tech diet; here is how designers can help
From 2019 · It’s time we bridge the gap between feel-good Design & Ethics panels and the work we do everyday as digital product designers.
HackerNoon
The Simple Life of Humans
4 min read · Feb 3rd · The Pursuit of Simplicity Only Serves to Manufacture Our Consent, Not Our Understanding.
nature
Autocorrect errors in Excel still creating genomics headache
4 min read · Aug 13th · Despite geneticists being warned about spreadsheet problems, 30% of published papers contain mangled gene names in supplementary data.
Fast Company
A sense of belonging is what drives well-being—and it’s disappearing
4 min read · Aug 18th · Our social connectedness drives our happiness; after more than a year of social isolation, there’s a clear opportunity for brands that can build belonging.
Harvard Business Review
Fostering a Culture of Belonging in the Hybrid Workplace
6 min read · Aug 3rd · Three challenges leaders must navigate.
The Atlantic
Different Cultures Define Happiness Differently
6 min read · Jul 15th · Well-being is far from universal. Here are four models to help you understand the world—and your own mind.
