Gabriel Mugar

Here are 3 approaches I take to reposition my expertise and authority in the design research process. Thanks @FastCompany for publishing this piece! fastcompany.com/90685137/3-com…

Companies that thrive in the AI era won’t be the ones with the smallest teams. They’ll be the ones that figure out how to preserve cognitive diversity through deliberate human touchpoints and more intentional use of AI as a critical lens medium.com/p/03dec1137884…

@SpeakerJohnson How about that 40 billion to Argentina. Thant could’ve solved some budget issues

Democrats have now voted 12 times to SHUT DOWN the government - preventing paychecks from going to our troops, vets, and air traffic controllers and stopping services to women, infants, and children. Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats can make this shutdown end IMMEDIATELY if just FIVE Democrat Senators would use common sense and pass our clean, 24-page bill to turn the lights back on.

Wow, Europe can now hire 1/3 of a top AI researcher.

This is how the media should handle the clown show that is @VP / @JDVance

@JaneotN lol New Hampshire

Canada will never be a State. But hey, does anybody want to be a Province? We have universal health care and our leader isn't orange. And, like, don't worry about the language, eh? p.s. hullo there, Gulf of Mexico!

From me, a list of Trump supporters who killed, or tried to kill, Democrats and opponents of Trump in recent years (since the right are now claiming all the political violence is from the left!) Receipts: zeteo.com/p/charlie-kirk…

@odannyboy There are some in tech who champion building for human value but they’re met with pushback from those who can only understand building for incremental metric gains . The complexity and nuance of building for human value is an effort that many avoid.

Here are 3 approaches I take to reposition my expertise and authority in the design research process. Thanks @FastCompany for publishing this piece! fastcompany.com/90685137/3-com…

@mulegirl 2/ I could see this being useful in later stages of ideation but not convinced it’s useful for understanding human behavior at earlier stages of product dev. Human behavior will always create variables that haven’t been captured in training data

@mulegirl 1/ Looking at the screenshots for synthetic users and it seems like a chatbot interface for survey research to test new product ideas. So instead of getting numbers to validate your idea you get words that represent aggregate behaviors

“Content moderation” was once industry jargon. Now it’s a front line in the culture war and the subject of multiple potential Supreme Court cases. Here’s my attempt to trace the story of how that happened, from 1996 to today, in 3,000 words. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

His ideas were foundational to our understanding of the role technology plays in society. It might be that every social scientist has engaged with them at some point. "Nothing becomes real to the point of not needing a network in which to upkeep its existence”. RIP Bruno Latour

Medicalizing mental health doesn’t work very well if your goal is to address the underlying causes of distress, @_danielle_carr says. “It does, however, work really well if you’re trying to come up with a solution everybody in power can agree on.” nyti.ms/3R1OK3E

UX Magazine republished my article on reimagining expertise in design. So glad that this is resonating with so many people.

Get your metrics out of my innovation

Quarterly user research reports don’t build empathy between designers and people who use their products …just saying…

Just like ⁦@marcrebillet⁩ says, you gotta show up if you want to get it done nytimes.com/2022/07/10/us/…

Jerome Powell: “You have two job vacancies essentially for every person actively seeking a job, and that has led to a real imbalance in wage negotiating," Well there you have it folks, logic of shareholder economics blatantly being anti-labor npr.org/2022/06/29/110…

@schock The ongoing battle between efficiency and care

RT @pverdegem@mastodon.social RT Abebab this paper is gold! "computer vision datasets authors value efficiency at the expense of care; universality at the expense of contextuality; impartiality at the expense of positionality; and model work at the expense of data work" (1/2)