I am fed up with the way we are all being frogmarched towards driverless cars. What I really want is carless cities. — Owen Barder (@owenbarder) November 19, 2017
25/11/2017
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Month: November 2017
23/11/2017
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What is machine learning?
Machine learning is all around us – on our phones, social networks, speech recognition systems and more – but what is it exactly, how does it work and why is it useful? And what else will it be doing for … Continue reading
22/11/2017
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The stereotype threat phenomenon or: why it’s important to create environments for women in the tech industry
Yesterday our Ladies that UX Berlin community celebrated its first anniversary (and it was awesome!). Time to reflect a question which often occurs: Why do we “separate” women from men? Here is one explanation based on social psychology, namely: stereotypes.
21/11/2017
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Interaction Design = Designing behavior
A bad error message is like trying to order dinner from a waiter who says, “Food cannot be ordered,” then stares silently at you. — Kim Goodwin (@kimgoodwin) November 14, 2017
21/11/2017
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Who do you want to talk to: People or machines?
“[…] After all, fitting in as a machine-readable cog into the database of ideas gets you a faster start. But it’s also the best way to be ignored, because you’ve chosen to be one of the many […]” He is … Continue reading
21/11/2017
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Nur nochmal 2 min Instagram checken…. oder: Pavlov’s dog.
via GIPHY “Wir sind permanent am Scrollen und checken, ob jemand seinen Status upgedatet hat. Problem: Das Design vieler Apps befeuert bewusst diese Sucht nach Information. Hauptsache, die Verweildauer stimmt. Brauchen wir höhere ethische Maßstäbe beim Design von Apps & … Continue reading
16/11/2017
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Interview for PAGE Magazine on effective UX/UI portfolios
We were recently interviewed for an article on effective UX/UI portfolios. You can read the interview in the new print edition of the PAGE magazine (12/2017). Thank you for letting us contribute!
10/11/2017
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Ladies that UX Berlin celebrates 1st Birthday!
Yay! Time to celebrate! We turn one year old! Last year in November we had our very first Ladies that UX chapter meetup at evenly and since then grew our little community to over 600 members! We introduced Ladies that … Continue reading
06/11/2017
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The Wonderful World of Human Cognition: The time course of visual perception
“We see the forest before the trees” – Navon, D. (1977) How do we perceive objects? Classic theories of object recognition (so-called feature theories) often claim that we first process specific features/details of something followed by a more general processing. … Continue reading
04/11/2017
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The Wonderful World of Human Cognition: How the Ames Room tricks our Brain
Despite the fact that we know that people normally don’t change their sizes so fast this knowledge – which is normally used to estimate our size and distance perception – is simply overwritten by the cues suggesting the wall is … Continue reading
01/11/2017
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Illustrated tips for become a better listener
I’m trying to work on that. I wish I could be the kind of listener exemplified in this fantastic sketchnote by @scriberian Thanks @sherrillknezel pic.twitter.com/UAdjdCIwGG — Helen Bevan (@helenbevan) November 1, 2017
01/11/2017
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Google AutoDraw
Google AutoDraw is pretty cool! “AutoDraw is a new kind of drawing tool that pairs the magic of machine learning with drawings from talented artists to help everyone create anything visual, fast.”