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A “run-the-pen-dry” experiment

It's Spring and the crushing deadlines of teaching college in a pandemic are crushing my soul. One way I renew my energy? Nature sketching. By falling in love with the…
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Collaboration vs Design by Committee

April 13th episode of What is Wrong with UX. In this episode, Kate and Laura argue about semantics. Again. This time they try to decide why collaboration is good and…
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Predicting Disaster

March 9th episode of What is Wrong with UX. In this episode, Kate and Laura argue about how to best predict disasters when deciding what to build. Obviously they never…

Copper Spoon…then and now…

During 2020 (and the awful pandemic) I started gardening, both indoors and outside. To get to know these new life forms, I pulled out the pens, paints, and measuring stick…
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Designing in Triples

February 2nd episode of What is Wrong with UX. In this episode, Kate explains why she likes to make everything three times as hard as it needs to be. If…
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Your Design Voices

January 19th episode of What is Wrong with UX. In this episode, Laura and Kate talk about the many voices that talk to them while they're designing things and frankly,…

What’s in my kit?

A tour of the things I commonly use in Nature journaling * During the Wild Wonder conference in 2020, I was part of a panel on what we carry. (Turns…
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Design for Lazy Irrational People

January 5th episode of What is Wrong with UX. In this episode, Kate and Laura discuss designing for lazy, irrational people. Or, you know, people. Read the auto-generated transcript on…
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Designing for Complex Products

December 22nd episode of What is Wrong with UX. In this episode, Kate and Laura contradict pretty much everything they've ever told you so that Laura can brag about her…
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Why Do You Believe That?

November 24th episode of What is Wrong with UX. In this episode, Kate and Laura ask a fundamental question - why on earth do you believe that completely unbelievable thing?…