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Tend to your optimum workself

Doing work we care about flexes important muscles. But work is a means to an end. Making progress requires that you stop.
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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
Venerate the Grave UX

Venerate the Grave UX

Ritualize the negative feedback one day each month.
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Michael Schofield
Are you busy or are you procrastinating?

Are you busy or are you procrastinating?

How many times have you humble-brag apologized for not being able to attend a meetup or get to a task because you’re busy? How often do we…
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What UX Can Learn from Ouija Boards

What UX Can Learn from Ouija Boards

Metric, Episode 70 | Resist the impulse to think the problem is best solved by an app or on the web.
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Michael Schofield
Operational User Research

Operational User Research

In user-experience driven businesses, it’s the pulse that matters.
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Michael Schofield
Accessibility’s Observer’s Paradox

Accessibility’s Observer’s Paradox

By deliberately improving the accessibility of your website, you increase the likelihood of accessibility errors.
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Michael Schofield
Questions UXers should ask in Job Interviews

Questions UXers should ask in Job Interviews

Metric, Episode 69 | What questions should UXers ask during job interviews, and what — if any — red flags should they be watching for?
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Thirsty UXers

Thirsty UXers

Metric, Episode 68 — Fully transcribed | How do you get the experience you need — or want — to take that next step in your UX career? Our…
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French Creek Freddie

French Creek Freddie

Episode 67 | What can regional groundhogs teach about product design?
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The Persona Zoo

The Persona Zoo

Episode 66 | We hit the user archetypes known as whales, fish, and barnacles — seagulls, hippos, and the whole persona zoo.
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Mazes and Monsters

Mazes and Monsters

Episode 65 | On game design and play-testing, natural user interfaces, and lessons learned about how games onboard users.
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Fitness and Gamification (and Goth LARPing)

Fitness and Gamification (and Goth LARPing)

Episode 64 | Tim Broadwater and Michael Schofield expertly tangent between fitness, gamification of health, tabletop games,
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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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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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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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