UX exists in the mind of the user, not in the object (or artifact). Thus, UX is not identified as the object itself; instead, it is the user’s experience that occur as a result of interactions with the object. UX Collective on UX and Subjectivity As UX Collective point above, when talking about user experience …
Category: The English Ones
Musings #11 The insidious insights of HBO’s “Years and Years”
Wow. Just wow. We’ve binged Years and Years in 2 days (the weekend, ofc) and it hasn’t left me since. Besides the Black mirror meets Handmaid’s tale and a few others (I believe there’s even a Paprika reference at the end), it’s the subtle daily changes that scare me the most. How we navigate our …
Musings #10 The “new” Mummy & Hollywood’s ambivalent discourse on “Evil”
(All you who enter here, beware of spoilers!) Maybe it’s because I’ve been studying popular culture as an academic for more than 9 years now, maybe it’s because I’m used to the yin-yang rhetoric in Japanese animation, or maybe it’s just an impression – but, watching The Mummy on Netflix (Sunday chillin’) felt like a …
Old writings recovered
It’s fun to reread your own scribbling years after, rediscovering old voices and images of yourself. Scattered and rearranged. This one was a writing prompt starting with “I was late to my own life.” Here’s what it sparked for my old self, a long time ago: “I was late to my own life. Every time …
Musings #9 On meaningful conversations
I believe it is really and truly important for people to share their stories and life experiences. With courage, vulnerability and honesty. So I ”collect” meaningful conversations like these, because there is so much to learn from other people’s views on life, death, living and being. These are my latest: How Elizabeth Gilbert talks about …
Musings #8 Creativity explained (again)
Each person has a creative voice that can be expressed, if one just nurtures it and lets it grow 🙂 Exurb1a is a one of a kind example, one that I also highly recommend for his quirky way of storytelling (just like in this listicle of Youtube channels to follow). As this morning I was …
Musings #7 Storytelling, Pixar & the power of change
The audience actually wants to work for their meal. They just don’t want to know that they’re doing that. A character has an itch that it can’t scratch. A spine. Change is fundamental in a story. A brilliant TED Talk by Andrew Stanton (“Toy Story,” “WALL-E”), director and voice actor at Pixar: What kind of …
Musings #6 There’s always time for #poetry
Today is a very strange day. Hot, slow and fidgety. I see an email from Brain Pickings in my inbox and decide to open it. Maybe I’ll read it later. But then this yellow, knowing pop-up appears: You could use a poem, it says. Indeed. So here’s what it gives me. A precious little poetry …
Musings #5 What does it mean to “be yourself”?
As the Eclipse still draws the minds of many, so too my mind wanders to 7-8 years ago (I guess), when I first listened to the talk below. It is an honest account on a personal story, a quest to discovering your gift, a way of looking at the world and more. And it makes …
Musings #4 The (un)familiar in Albania
As my killer headache doesn’t give space to think about much, just to wallow and drift from place to place, let’s enjoy a trip to Albania together – in a text that I have written for BRIDGE Magazine. The essence? Looking beyond what makes us different so as to understand all our commonalities. Our shared …
