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People with Unconventional Backgrounds Can Find Success in UX
đ This article originally appeared on Concordia University’s blog. Without any formal training in user experience (UX) design, I landed a job designing a platform for a business that brings in hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual revenue. Following this opportunity, I was accepted into a prestigious design school. In any other industry, this…
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An introduction to UX for non-designers
Last week I gave a talk at Concordia University explaining what UX is and what it takes to start building a career in this field. There were over 100 attendees who had questions about accessibility, ethics in design, and many other important discssions. You can watch the talk here: I’ll keep this post short as…
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Iâm afraid of flying but I bike without a helmet
Humans are, by nature, living contradictions. I’ll spare you the philosophical waxing and keep it brief: about a month ago I fell off my bike and got a (very) minor concussion. This was the first time it ever really occurred to me that bike accidents are incredibly likely. They can happen without any serious mistake…
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The pen cap that dreamt of becoming a pen
Say one day you wake up and you realize youâre a pen cap. Your whole life was lived in pursuit of becoming a writer. You try and try, and even though at times you wrote some pretty successful pieces, you find yourself unwittingly better at protecting the writing utensil than at being the writing utensil…
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Are you actually building something new?
âGo back to the basics.â âBuild from the ground up.â âStart from the beginning.â In our modern world of highly disposable companies, services and products, phrases like these have found themselves used at an all time highâââjust watch any video with Jony Ive talking about how they just remade the exact same phone from last…
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The internet is all porn and you might not even realize it
You may have not realized it but the 2 hours you just spent scrolling up and down Facebook was more than likely 2 hours spent looking at porn. What?! Yes. Letâs begin with some etymology. Thereâs a very important difference between pornography and porn. Looking at the dictionary definition of the former, it says: por¡nog¡ra¡phypĂ´rËnäɥrÉfÄ/…
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The buddy system for self-schooling
The internet is a glorious place where you can either burn 4 consecutive hours looking at 9gag and a stream of your friendsâ garbage on Facebook, or learn a megaton of things for free. There are many ways to go about doing this, be it by tuning your social media to suck less so you…
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How to use the Like button to make your Facebook Newsfeed suck less
If youâve noticed that your Facebook Newsfeed is a little crappy these days, you might want to rethink your Liking strategy. If your Newsfeed is Godâs gift of knowledge then please share your tips to make this guide more useful. What is the Like button, really? All interactions on Facebook these days are sucked up…
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The jack of all tradesâ fear of mediocrity
Iâm usually very proud of being a jack of all trades. Like all of them, I take joy in acquiring knowledge from all the world has to offer. I like to dabble, and enjoy the fruits of the Earth without ever deciding that one is sweeter than the other. Hereâs a few juggling tricks, a…
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The paradox of using song discovery apps.
Beautifully designed and even simpler to use. (Taken from the Shazam website.) Youâve probably used or heard of Shazam (or any of its competitors) by now. Shazam was one of the first apps that I downloaded on my phone that made me feel like I had magic powers. Itâs terrifically simple, highly intelligent and extremely…
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We Once Were (ŮŮا)
The Tale of a People of Past ParticiplesPaul Doyle, 2011. http://www.bradtguides.com/articles-lebanon-peaceful-beautiful-and-cosmopolitan.html A Conversation with Teita Prelude I was conversing with my teita (grandmother) not more than a week ago about the state of our nation. Not the nation of the book I carry which gives me access to different countries. The nation whose food I…
