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Harmonizing thought and action: Elevating thought leadership alongside people management
Harmonizing thought and action: Elevating thought leadership alongside people management
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way — John C. Maxwell.
Kem-Laurin Lubin, Ph.D-C
Oct 11, 2023
Riding the wave of Flow — flourishing in a dynamic world
Riding the wave of Flow — flourishing in a dynamic world
“The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times… The best moments usually occur if a person’s body or mind…
Sue Waddell
Aug 8, 2023
Reshaping the Digital World: Unmasking the Disruption of Authenticity by Social Media Design
Reshaping the Digital World: Unmasking the Disruption of Authenticity by Social Media Design
“Amidst the digital campfire of social media, where relevance and identity converge, the human experience becomes UX’s magnum opus and…
Kem-Laurin Lubin, Ph.D-C
Jul 27, 2023
Place matters — equity, diversity and inclusion in design needs UX strategies based on pure…
Place matters — equity, diversity and inclusion in design needs UX strategies based on pure…
Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony — Morpheus (The…
Kem-Laurin Lubin, Ph.D-C
Mar 24, 2022
UX great resignation or re-distribution?
UX great resignation or re-distribution?
“Sometimes Hem, things change and they are never the same again. This looks like one of those times. That’s life! Life moves on. And so…
Kem-Laurin Lubin, Ph.D-C
Dec 28, 2021
The age of automation holds promise for more time and true human creativity
The age of automation holds promise for more time and true human creativity
“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of…
Kem-Laurin Lubin, Ph.D-C
Dec 18, 2021
CX, UX, HCD? — Understanding the differences
CX, UX, HCD? — Understanding the differences
For the last few years, I have found myself often in confounding conversations with other “UX folks” and sooner than later realize we are…
Kem-Laurin Lubin, Ph.D-C
Dec 16, 2021
Interrogating Big Tech Algorithms: What did the AI know & when, and how and why did it know it?
Interrogating Big Tech Algorithms: What did the AI know & when, and how and why did it know it?
During the Nixon Watergate scandal of 1972, Republican Senator Howard Baker asked this now-famous question that would enable lawmakers to…
Kem-Laurin Lubin, Ph.D-C
Oct 7, 2021
Why Human-Centred Design (HCD) needs a reset and where we can go from there
Why Human-Centred Design (HCD) needs a reset and where we can go from there
In 2009, I was invited to write a piece for Johnny Holland magazine, a European- based online UX publication catered to practitioners. In…
Kem-Laurin Lubin, Ph.D-C
Jan 3, 2021
Approaches to Sustainable UX Design Practice — evolving UX practice to include Sustainabilit
Approaches to Sustainable UX Design Practice — evolving UX practice to include Sustainabilit
I often revisit my writing on the subject of User Experience (UX) and in that sharing another excerpt from my 2011 book User Experience in…
Kem-Laurin Lubin, Ph.D-C
Aug 7, 2020
Innovation & Human-Centered Design in the Age of COVID -19 — Developing Temporal Personas
Innovation & Human-Centered Design in the Age of COVID -19 — Developing Temporal Personas
The COVID crisis has accelerated emerging trends and challenges in many industries and Human Centred Design practice have not been immune…
Kem-Laurin Lubin, Ph.D-C
Jun 16, 2020
On Sustainability & the role of Designers in the Climate Crisis discourse
On Sustainability & the role of Designers in the Climate Crisis discourse
Sharing another excerpt from my 2012 book User Experience in the Age of Sustainability, which in many ways, was ahead of its time. However…
Kem-Laurin Lubin, Ph.D-C
Jan 22, 2020
Striking a balance between young technical genius and old traditional wisdom — a reset
Striking a balance between young technical genius and old traditional wisdom — a reset
Genius is too elusive, too subjective, too wedded to the verdict of history to be easily identified. And it requires the ultimate…
Kem-Laurin Lubin, Ph.D-C
Sep 10, 2019
Does your social media network spark joy?
Does your social media network spark joy?
More often than not my Medium.com posts come from festering thoughts and random conversations. These idea seeds then ignite an idea and…
Kem-Laurin Lubin, Ph.D-C
Aug 23, 2019
Digital Rhetoric — informing the future of UX in man-machine interactions
Digital Rhetoric — informing the future of UX in man-machine interactions
Digital Rhetoric as a topic of interest today surfaces across many faculties in academia. This fact adds inherent pliability to its…
Kem-Laurin Lubin, Ph.D-C
Jul 30, 2019
What’s in my Innovation Coach Kit? — an Unboxing for the Curious
What’s in my Innovation Coach Kit? — an Unboxing for the Curious
At least twice a week someone asks me:
Kem-Laurin Lubin, Ph.D-C
Jul 2, 2019
Top 7 Trends that will affect Digital Space in 2019
Top 7 Trends that will affect Digital Space in 2019
It seems every day there is a news story about how a large digital company continues to violate societal norms, as it pertains to our data…
Kem-Laurin Lubin, Ph.D-C
Dec 29, 2018
Learning & Innovation for Everyone -LIFE
Learning & Innovation for Everyone -LIFE
“If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old” ― Peter Drucker
Kem-Laurin Lubin, Ph.D-C
Nov 24, 2018
Limits of Ai, Opportunities for Human Experience Designers
Limits of Ai, Opportunities for Human Experience Designers
The field of Experience Design is at a crossroads — a very interesting and challenging one if I say so myself. I say so with the hindsight…
Kem-Laurin Lubin, Ph.D-C
Jul 27, 2018
Design Work Futures -The Silent Revolution
Design Work Futures -The Silent Revolution
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow…
Kem-Laurin Lubin, Ph.D-C
May 24, 2018
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