Re-create a scene from a childrens' book and win an XP Pen graphics tablet. Deadline July 26th. #storybookchallenge sketchfab.com/blogs/storyboo…

I converted Tesla’s safety report numbers… From: miles between collisions (where more miles per accident is better) To: number of traffic accidents per thousand drivers per year (where fewer accidents is better) 👀 I don’t know about you, but I’d rather be in a Tesla. $TSLA

Too bad "observe your users" doesn't end in ...spection. Seriously, this is important advice.

How does the best user interface amongst streaming services do it? Dominira Saul says: A heavy focus on research, on design, on testing. They’re constantly doing usability testing and tweaking the interface. insidehook.com/article/intern…

In machine learning: "Spending the time to pick the best use cases...is one of the best things a company can do." dbta.com/BigDataQuarter… according to Lynda Partner

UX is included in CFIA's Open Science plan for "New Ideas" to be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable - the FAIR principle inspection.canada.ca/science-and-re…

Love this combination of UX research and design methods: "bodystorming" a conceptual design in VR with a pentad of parameters; all remote. dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114…

A participant says "I don't use the chatbot; it uses the same jargon as the menus". If you're building alternative navigation, first look into Mel Conway

History of data-gathering on why hyperlinks are blue - design, thinking, observation, repeat - blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-cu…

The vehicle UX

EVENT ALERT: Join Hodan Omaar on March 23 as she talks with Ben Shneiderman about his new book, "Human-Centered AI: Ensuring Human Control, Enhancing Human Performance." datainnovation.org/2022/03/book-t…

Human-centred humanitarianism, by Alan Frank. 6pm Tuesday at CapCHI. capchi.org/tag/alan-frank/

How big a sample size does it take to find errors in design? You can find a lot with just 5 boys.

MVP means minimum viable proposition - but - to move forward the next step is a minimum validate-able prototype

"The biggest thing that I've seen... is actually not so much about how human-like Ai-Da is, but how robotic we are. The algorithms that run our systems..." Aidan Meller about art from robots. Percepts precede precepts, art precedes science

A light hearted look at those torturous deep dives in data analysis... "Data will confess to anything you want it to if you torture it long enough"

“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk” Thomas Edison

For the holidays, a math parody on patterns: youtu.be/NOCsdhzo6Jg?si…