Algorithms
Positive negatives
Discovering content in the modern world is strangely beautiful and terrible
UX
UX
Why anyone can become a UX designer
How unconventional backgrounds and non-traditional work experience lend themselves to a career in UX
UX
My Experience in Designing a Course in UX
How designing a course about user experience is very similar to my job as a UX designer
Reflections
People with Unconventional Backgrounds Can Find Success in UX
How to take a non-traditional path to a career in UX
UX
An introduction to UX for non-designers
A talk at Concordia University explaining what UX is and what it takes to start building a career in this field
Learning
Learning how to structure a virtual class
Fancy online tools won't take you far without a solid foundation
Mental Models
Let go of anchoring bias to build more effective products
How a new app that's challenging existing video calling software reminded me of this potent cognitive bias
Algorithms
How Netflix's rating system is hurting our documentaries
The Good, The Bad, and Nothing Else
UX
Adding a social layer across the web
Expanding social beyond social media.
UX
Keyword foraging: the key to better search tools
How this new term can help us understand the way people discover things online.
Algorithms
We need more friction in our algorithms
Companies have paid lip service to our digital wellbeing for too long. Now we need to see real change