Bad product leadership: Here is something we want you to design. Good product leadership: We believe there is a problem with X, so we want you to figure out how to address it. Great product leadership: Help us understand what our customer's problems are & how to address them.

1970: We're going to build a global network that can withstand a nuclear war. 2021: AWS is down and my coffee machine doesn't work.

Very grateful for this collaboration with Noura Howell Sarah Fox where we reflected on our past failures in design research. "Cracks in the Success Narrative: Rethinking Failure in Design Research through a Retrospective Trioethnography" ACM TOCHI dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/34…

Eight skills every #UX #design professional must have to some degree: 1. Research 2. Visual Design 3. Interaction Design 4. Information Architecture 5. Usability Testing 6. UX Writing 7. Accessibility Design 8. Ethical Design We need to stop focusing on just #1 and #2.

Usability testing case study of SunWeb by Jakob Nielsen in 1995! UX design is older than you might think :-) Archived versions: web.archive.org/web/1996122020… and web.archive.org/web/1996122020… #WebDesignHistory

I remember when lean UX meant "we move faster by staying low-fidelity for as long as possible" and not "we save time by skipping directly to high-fidelity deliverables"

Creating voice user interfaces requires a lot of design expertise in various areas such as conversation design, interaction design, visual and motion design. 🔖 Things to keep in mind when designing visual interfaces: smashingmagazine.com/2022/02/voice-…

Are Code Reviews Dead? Frontend Best Practices Online Event - Tuesday Feb 22nd 6PM - 8PM. Event in English. Great mix of speakers. More info an register here: meetup.com/Rapperswil-Fro…

And we do still have plenty of open positions for cryptographers, distributed systems and applied security researchers. And of course software engineers! Wanna join our top notch team? DFINITY.org/jobs DFINITY Foundation #icp

Interaction Week 23 will open the field on our favorable and positive impact to the future. What areas, do you think, need to be (re)defined? Super Early Bird tickets on sale now. 23.ixda.org

Submission deadlines for the HCI scientific track at #MuC2022: 📅 Workshops: March 14, 2022 📅 Full Papers: April 06, 2022 📅 Short Papers: June 15, 2022 📅 Tutorials: June 15, 2022 📅 Demos: June 15, 2022 📅 Doctoral Colloquium: July 04, 2022 ➡️muc2022.mensch-und-computer.de/en/cfp-en/

Zertifikatskurs Frontend Engineering - garantierte Durchführung Start 27. April. Mehr Info hier: ost.ch/de/weiterbildu…

"In successful #AI systems, people can choose how much automated help they want," UMD Department of Computer Science professor emeritus Ben Shneiderman writes. Read his recs for engineers/designers to understand trade-offs and make careful choices with users in mind, via National Academy of Engineering. nationalacademies.org/news/2022/04/e…

With few exceptions, you should NEVER start generating new ideas in a group - always start with people writing ideas alone and only then move to a group setting. (We've known starting with groups is worse for 50 years, but people still keep doing it since it feels more creative)

What does a UX writer *actually* do? 🤔 Whatever it is, you can probably do it in Figma—so I created a guide to help writers learn how to use it. From the very basics to pro tips, it’s got a lil something for everyone. figma.com/best-practices…

That's it. The farewell and handover of #MuC2022 to #MuC2023 has taken place. Loud applause and many thanks to Max Mühlhäuser, Christian Reuter (Christian Reuter) & the chairs of this year's conference, who wish Markus Stolze (Markus Stolze) all the best for the next MuC. See you in 🇨🇭

Happy 22nd Birthday a book Don't Make Me Think! On October 13, 2000, Steve Krug, a UX designer and information architect, published Don’t Make Me Think. The book deals with web usability and the interdisciplinary field of HCI. webdesignmuseum.org/web-design-his… #WebDesignHistory

#Privacy #TermsOfService (almost?) none reads the terms of services of products. this website gives you the too long, didn't read for many of the big companies terms of services: tosdr.org/?utm_source=st…

#ICYMI On avg, developers spend about 58% of the time on reading code! However, we are not explicitly taught reading code in school, and we rarely practice code reading. /Fay-lee-nuh/ shares theories for reading code & techniques : bit.ly/3MyBGkq #InfoQ

Hey Paul ☄︎. Thursday, October 5th, we are holding our fall "Frontend Best Practices Event" in Rapperswil. The topic is "3D-Web". Having you around to show off React Three Fiber would be marvelous. Is there any chance? meetup.com/rapperswil-fro…