Helpful advice for creating a good user experience through being succinct: “I trust them to reach the same conclusions I’ve come to — without needing to drown them in words.” Torrey Podmajersky medium.com/microsoft-desi…

I think this TED talk is spot-on: "if we can harness today's technologies...in service of distributive design, we can ensure that health care, education, finance, energy, political voice reaches and empowers those people who need it most." ted.com/talks/kate_raw… via TED Talks

The power of data visualization! BBC News - Maps reveal hidden truths of the world's cities: bbc.com/news/av/techno…

“We are trying to put out a house fire with a teaspoon.” theguardian.com/environment/ng…

Exciting to see Google Duplex! Would I use this though? Forgoing all human interaction...and control! Hmm youtu.be/D5VN56jQMWM

To Andy, Whatever happens next, you've done more than you know. #Wimbledon

Fake missile attack warning? Human error? Nonsense. It's incompetent design. One wrong click terrorizes the entire state? Why is it possible? I have a book they need to read.

This is the screen that set off the ballistic missile alert on Saturday. The operator clicked the PACOM (CDW) State Only link. The drill link is the one that was supposed to be clicked. #Hawaii

Started 10 week immersive course with @GA_boston in UX design this week as part of a career and life change, having moved to Boston for it! Very excited to be getting started

"Using VR as a Force for Social Good" theblog.adobe.com/using-vr-force…

Have you bought a children's book recently? If so I'd be really grateful if you could take this <2 minute survey to help me design a great website for a local bookstore: goo.gl/forms/Db94ph6k…

I've had to overcome self-consciousness about my limited drawing skills but here I am sketching as part of GA's UXDI course here in Boston! It's satisfying getting an idea out on paper, however basic

Post-Technology Future. The art of Simon Stålenhag depicts a parallel universe in which Hi-Tech, Robotics & VR reached amazing heights then suddenly collapsed. An alternative world in which we've regressed to the 1980s, and are surrounded by dead Super-technology. Amazing.

So much I want to research further in this article. An overview of the link between sustainability and design and the key educators in that space: "Design education enables cultural transformation – Daniel Christian Wahl – Medium" medium.com/@designforsust…

Have you ever done Tough Mudder? If so I'd be very grateful if you could complete this <1 min survey to help with an app design project goo.gl/forms/El6Xd0xl…

Particularly enjoying the part of the UX design process where you take research findings and make sense out of them to uncover the real user problems that need solving #affinitymapping

"The addition of experience into the now well established collection of equity, enterprise, and ecology prompts the discarding of the...3-legged stool of the triple bottom line [for] the more comfortable and inviting 4-legged chair of sustainability." metropolismag.com/ideas/sustaina…

“A strong circular economy begins at the design stage" environment.google/projects/circu… #readlater #feedly

The psychology behind why people don't recycle ➡️ by Erin Schumaker huffingtonpost.com/entry/psycholo… #GenerationNow via The Scope