Dear museums, if your ticket booking system is so crappy and inaccessible that it takes me more time to book online than to queue at the counter, what's the point? Placeholders as labels, mandatory fields not marked, disabled copy pasting for emails, refresh in the middle and data loss, gosh...
I discovered latino brunch. I don't know if this is a thing or if that restaurant invented it, but I can never go back.
Also I learned how to make cute cocktails 😁
Blague de maths
Mark Parisi
I would like to remind you that the only reason I know that 10 feet approximately equals 3 meters, is because of Dungeon and Dragons.
Let's not pretend DnD doesn't teach you useful skills 😁
But more seriously, let the kids play, the ability to create whole scenes with your imagination is amazing.
Wow the amount of AI art in shops for Xmass is just yuuuurk. It's inconsistent. It shows. There's no effort, like half of the stuff is blurry pixel mush. It's sad. And I know most marketing teams will go "it's good enough". But nope. It's sad. And customers are already annoyed at it.
Oooh look I wasn't saaaaad or stressed, I just needed to lay in a giant pool filled with balls, surrounded by soft pastel light and music 😅 And nice art.
When you are tired and read "fetish" instead of "festlisch" on an advertisement for clothes in German. Honestly, both worked. 😹
Hii, no weekly newsletter (or UX related posts) for the next 2 weeks, because, holidays, yeahy. Meanwhile enjoy some cute coffee with a rainbow and have a nice end of the year 🌈
(I might share some food and fun pictures here though)
Current trigger for this thought today is
@robinince.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy having to resign from his long running science communication radio show on the BBC.
But it's happening everywhere. JKR's bankrolling of litigation against organisations in the UK isn't helping - please boycott everything Harry Potter.
It's been a super busy week that can be summarized into "the personas they teach you at school don't really work in enterprise UX, but with a mix of task analysis, journey mapping, knowledge gap and system mapping you can create something helpful".
I might write more on the topic when I get time.
Meanwhile check out Larry Marine's Disruptive Research book: it inspired a lot of my own tools, I ended up adapting: https://deltacx.media/media/disruptive-research/
Madame Mollette
Sara Joy ☠️