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Clarity about what it is you do and Facebook’s memento mori

Clarity about what it is you do and Facebook’s memento mori

The second of 52 meditations on stoicism, design, and development.
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Michael Schofield
How to talk about User Experience

How to talk about User Experience

The user experience is a measure of your end-user’s interaction with your organization: its brand, its product, and its services.
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Michael Schofield
Craft Virtuously

Craft Virtuously

These are the first of 52 meditations on stoicism, design, and development. Subscribe to stoicism.design and let’s be mindful designers.
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Michael Schofield
User Experience Depreciates

User Experience Depreciates

Keeping the user experience as a net positive requires attention, resources, buttressing, and the humility that the delight you create now…
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Michael Schofield
Stoicism and UX: Memento Mori

Stoicism and UX: Memento Mori

We translate this practice of death remembrance to service and user experience design to embolden our perspective.
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Michael Schofield
Measure the Future

Measure the Future

Metric, Episode 63 | Jason Griffey on ethically designing a human heatmapping service that respects users’ privacy.
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Michael Schofield
Create Shallow Personas

Create Shallow Personas

Design personas to help you move on to more interesting work.
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Michael Schofield

Modern WordPress Development: You should throw an exception when you encounter a WP_Error

WordPress methods like wp_insert_user don’t throw exceptions when they fail, but instead — and in some cases only if you tell the method to…
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Michael Schofield
What is an effective way to facilitate a smooth hand-off from UX?

What is an effective way to facilitate a smooth hand-off from UX?

How can UX betters support the developer team through their process?
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Michael Schofield
Making it easier for small publishers to bolster their subscriber base

Making it easier for small publishers to bolster their subscriber base

We are designing an open-source opt-in app for small publishers and news organizations. RJI asked we write a post introducing the project…
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Michael Schofield
How to talk about Service Design and User Experience Design in the Same Sentence

How to talk about Service Design and User Experience Design in the Same Sentence

Service design is the practice and the user experience is its metric.
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Michael Schofield
The Mountain beyond the Molehill

The Mountain beyond the Molehill

A Cassandra — who, with the gift of prophecy, no one believed — on the slopes of which even mature experience design teams predict behavior…
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Michael Schofield
Personal Information in the name of “User Experience” with Donna Lanclos

Personal Information in the name of “User Experience” with Donna Lanclos

Donna Lanclos talks about the ethics of gathering personal data in the name of providing a good user experience.
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Michael Schofield
The Worth of UX Certification

The Worth of UX Certification

An interview with Tim Broadwater, a UX Master Certificate recipient, about the value of UX Certification.
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Michael Schofield
Links Should Open in the Same Window

Links Should Open in the Same Window

The best practice is to leave the default link behavior alone
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Michael Schofield
Siri, Enable VoiceOver

Siri, Enable VoiceOver

Testing for accessibility is still a far cry from the experience of someone actually caring about the content on the screen.
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Michael Schofield
On design in user stories and user experience departments

On design in user stories and user experience departments

Podcast (20:48) | Thoughts on the role of design in agile user stories, the necessary technical skills required to do UX work, as well as…
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Michael Schofield
Ugh, UX Ph.D’s

Ugh, UX Ph.D’s

Podcast (25:55) | I tackle three questions about the value of UX certification; a UX Ph.D who makes crappy decisions; and guerrilla…
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Michael Schofield
When Native Apps are Unethical

When Native Apps are Unethical

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Michael Schofield
The Nintendo Switch

The Nintendo Switch

Chad Haefele, Tim Broadwater, and Michael Schofield totally conjecture about the user experience of the Nintendo Switch and the nostalgia…
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Michael Schofield
The Election as a Design Problem

The Election as a Design Problem

Podcast (30:04) | Can we talk about voter information as a user experience design challenge?
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Michael Schofield
DRM is Still Coming to the Web and You Should Care More

DRM is Still Coming to the Web and You Should Care More

In March, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) threw out a nonaggression covenant that would safeguard people from some of the legal risk…
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