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BookNotes: The Book of Two Ways

Nuggets & notes from the Jodi Picoult book. When I read, I have the terrible habit of folding down the edges of pages that have intriguing ideas. When I'm done…

31 Days of Leaves: #leaftober 2021

October is usually my favorite month. But this one was different. This one was hard. Instead of doing the daily #inktober* challenge and using prompts from the main project or…
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High Level UX Jobs

August 3rd episode of What is Wrong with UX. In this episode, Kate and Laura really go off the rails talking about the similarities, differences, and issues with various different…
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Some Things Are Harder than Others

June 8th episode of What is Wrong with UX. In this episode, Kate and Laura whine about how hard it is to actually make things and Laura makes fun of…

From Raw capture to Rich memory

3 steps to a Soundscape Nature Sketch As an avid nature journaler, I love to go out into nature and draw things. Flowers! Trees! Rocks! Environments! Scenes! The richness of…
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Journeys

May 25th episode of What is Wrong with UX. This episode is like being on a long car ride with two loud friends (Kate and Laura) who won't shut up…

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…