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#Bengals QB Joe Burrow on playing on Thanksgiving: “You grow up going through Thanksgiving — you have your meals, and you sit on the couch ... watch the Lions vs. somebody, watch Matthew Stafford throw 300–400 yards with Calvin Johnson, and probably lose the game.”😂

okay so AI can literally read our minds now. a team from osaka was able to reconstruct visual images from mri scan data using stable diffusion. first row is the image presented to the test subject, second row is the reconstructed image from mri data. wild.

A lot of designers focus their energy on creating the best user experience possible. This often results in improving the experience for non paying customers (especially in freemium products) or in areas which might improve sentiment but don’t drive business outcomes.

@joenatoli If a bootcamp refunds students who don't get that first job, isn't that a guarantee?

#UX Fast Food For Thought, Episode 02: Can a bootcamp REALLY guarantee you a job? youtu.be/3pnZxSQ2JEI

@joenatoli Respectfully disagree. The best bootcamps include at least one project with a real client and they advise their students to do exactly what you're suggesting - find mom and pop for real experience.

@joenatoli If anyone wants to read more about why it matters and how to learn if a word is harmful, Intuit Content Design has some guidance. contentdesign.intuit.com/accessibility-…

Re: patterns. Call them what they are in context of how they’re used: Manipulative Coercive Abusive Shaming Exploitative Racist Sexist Etc. STOP using “dark.” Period. I’ve done so in the past, I admit. But I see the wrongness of that clearly now. So no more. Simple, see?

@brownorama Mural?

What do you get when you combine these two ideas?

@erova It does require a lot of restraint to resist responding, but it’s a marketing strategy.

It stuns me that today some people legitimately think there is a conflict between design practitioners and people who sell workshops to call it, with a straight face, a UX Civil War. And oh hail no I’m not linking the evidence

@allenholub Air Canada 143 youtu.be/GZWjSUDTpOg

This is what fault tolerance looks like. You'll notice that the airplane is flying just fine, thank you.

During lectures, I switched from asking "does anyone have a question before I move on?" to telling "someone ask me a question before I move on" and it is so simple but SUCH a game changer. #AcademicTwitter

VERMONT'S OWN BRINGS IT HOME 🥈 Ryan Cochran-Siegle wins super-G silver at the #WinterOlympics!

A pretty large part of managing talented people is simply about conceiving the right "why" questions and asking them those questions in words that foster psychological safety, introspection, confidence, and creativity.

1. When someone resigns, they usually have no more shits to give, so the power dynamics change. What's the worst that can happen by giving candid feedback? They fire you? But consider this: How does your company culture disincentivize people from giving meaningful feedback?

@jennyholzer And the rest, staying out of other people’s business.

MOSTLY YOU SHOULD MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS

Vermont is fully open. Vermont leads the nation in vaccinations. Vermont is the safest state in the country. Enjoy the beautiful weekend, Vermonters. You deserve it.

Maybe instead of teaching kids to respect flags, symbols and anthems... Let's teach them to respect justice, tolerance, diversity, and humanity.

The most important thing on #UX you'll read all day, courtesy of @jjg. I could not possibly agree more. This is the conversation that we're not having (but SHOULD be). fastcompany.com/90642462/i-hel…

Managing is designing. Except instead of designing products, interfaces or services, you are designing how a group of people can create something more together than apart. Which people are needed? Who should do what? How do folks collaborate? These are design questions.

The energy powering the screen you’re reading this on has been on quite a journey.

Dec 2020: we’ve invented Covid vaccines within a year, that’s amazing Feb 2021: wow we’ve landed a craft on Mars, that’s incredible March 2021: please, the big boat, it’s very stuck