And another review, First no. 19: Natural Connection by Joycelyn Longdon (1 June 2026):
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New(ish) essay, Fifteenth no. 18: On the slopcore aesthetic (15 May 2026):
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Thank you for having me @uxlondon.bsky.social #UXLondon #WhoseEnglishGetsToBeDefault #FirstAndFifteenthOnTheRoad #CriticalAI
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I’ll be speaking on day 1 of UX London 💁🏾♂️ #UXLondon @uxlondon.bsky.social
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New review! First no. 18: Enshittification by Cory Doctorow 💩
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New essay! Fifteenth no. 17: On unlearning.
Link below. 👇🏾
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💥 New review! First no. 17: Research for People Who Think They Would Rather Create by Dirk Vis
(with bonus review of BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions)
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Less than 2 weeks until @uxlondon.bsky.social from Tuesday 2 to Thursday 4 June.
I will close day 1 with “Whose English gets to be default?” — a critical examination of accent bias in voice interface design.
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Technology is manufactured — chemically intensive and extractive processes are deployed to transform raw materials into sophisticated digital devices. Technology demands control — complex infrastructu...
There is a strange glaze mediating your perception of the synthetic images in your feed. At first glance, you sense the altered luminescence before concluding it’s a visual shift that does not need co...
Why do we do research? This might seem like an insultingly simple question, yet perhaps we have never paused to reflect before considering our honest answer. In the quest for a new job or promotion, w...
If you are steeped in internet culture, this is a word that you might have encountered sometime in the last three years. This is a word that represents the motives and actions of an industry dominated...
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A three-day celebration of user experience and digital design.
Research for People Who Think They Would Rather Create is a slender manual written by Dirk Vis — a Dutch lecturer at Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam and the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague — who...
