(image by MidJourney) Using the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress, I am (in theory) connected to the Fediverse. All posts should now appear if you follow @Jeremy from your Fediverse (Mastadon, etc) instance! If you’re new to the Fediverse, here’s a quick synopsis from ChatGPT: “The Fediverse is a network of decentralized social media platforms that… Continue reading
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It’s hard to waste time on the internet if you aren’t on the social platforms. Not to get all Andy Rooney here, but I miss web rings. It was such a compelling way to dive down a rabbit hole on some random topic. It was always super exciting to seeing those shared navigation bars with… Continue reading
On May 31, 2022 I sent in this listener question: Hi Kara and Scott, My name is Jeremy, I’m a product designer in Brooklyn. You often talk about how Facebook is not an innovative company, which I agree with. My question to you both is, why aren’t they? They clearly throw boatloads of money around… Continue reading
I had the occasion to give this talk at 2 conferences – the first in Seattle in March 2020, right before COVID got serious, and again virtually to UXPA Cleveland later that year.
Yet today it is. Hyper-targeted ads have become an eye-poppingly lucrative business. Unbeknownst to most users, companies suck up our personal data from a growing and often surprising list of sources in order to better target ads in the hopes they can coerce us into buying something.
Continue readingIn Enterprise UX, your customers are often different than your users. You are effectively selling a machine, aka your product. The customers have a need for the output of this machine. They are buying a better/faster/cheaper way to get that output, but will not be using this machine themselves. The end users of the machine… Continue reading
For years, international investors sought firms in the UK as a launching point to trade assets all over Europe (and, likewise, European firms to trade in UK). Due to Brexit, that will all change on March 29th, 2019. Once Brexit is finalized, thousands of legal agreements will need to be transferred between various brokerage firms’… Continue reading
Challenge: The various products at FIA Tech were either acquired from other companies or built by either in-house and contracted teams over the years. While these developers did a masterful job weaving these complicated, data heavy applications together, the design was something of a mess, with different visual and interaction languages across the different applications. Additionally, as we added new features… Continue reading
Behold three actual, real-life cryptocurrency wallet addresses: EeNpwvEedJeHjBNFk5xPqYGViS6M4iqbey LQ1Xx6Phn2i3iFhhzb8o9ifD3AyXkAJPnw SWx6vLKMD9SSynZ8DAzoutZEVux1K4p7eE Now, having looked at these for a minute; tell me literally anything about them. Do you know what currency these are for? Or what blockchain? Who they belong to? In today’s cryptocurrency landscape, when sending assets to another wallet—be it a person or a business—there… Continue reading