My anti-resolution1 for 2025 is to take a break from online discourse, including writing on this blog. I’ve been writing here with varying levels of frequency for eight years. And hence it’s time for a sabbatical, before what’s going to be an incredibly intense but rewarding period of life that’s j…
Today marks the start of another year in my life. As is my tradition, I’ve added another birthday picture. I don’t have any great pearls of wisdom from reflecting on mortality or how to keep feeling young despite being well into middle-aged by any reasonable definition of the word. Even though th…
The advantage of working with a UX professional is that he or she will challenge ideas and work through the tradeoffs of complex problems to find a solution. In most cases the UX designer’s solution won’t be the simplistic “just put another button there” that management asked for. That’s the job, t…
A point that Neil Postman makes in Amusing Ourselves to Death is that our modern entertainment-based media can’t have a serious discussion when you have to cut to an irrelevant, peppy commercial in the next ten seconds. Here’s an even more extreme example from a leading Ukrainian newspaper’s websi…
