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• Voice assistants - are they really the future? Feb 11

• Cameras that understand Feb 7

• Humans, not users Jan 29

• Writing as part of the UX process Jan 28

• Keeping AI Honest Jan 23

• Imagine a world without ads targeted by personal information Jan 22

• Right to privacy Jan 18

• Prescribed Technological Therapy: Is this our future? Jan 14

• Why we need to slow time and scale down Jan 3

• 2018 in review Dec 28

• What We Talk About When We Talk About Design Ethics Dec 20

• If you like what we build, pay us. Otherwise, do not. Dec 20

• What’s my location? Dec 17

• The State of UX in 2019 Dec 13

• We need the right kind of growth Dec 11

• Seth Godin: A lesson in good content creation Dec 3

• Why scrap scrappy? Nov 29

• The Most Important Survival Skill for the Next 50 Years Isn’t What You Think Nov 22

• Why do we feel so busy? It’s all our hidden ‘shadow work’ Nov 22

• How Playing Games Helped Me Succeed at Business Nov 19

• Smartphones are our ever-present computers Oct 29

• Time travel through words with Merriam-Webster Oct 29

• I’m taking a break Oct 22

• Morgan Knutson on Working as a Designer on Google+ Oct 16

• Organized for browsing Oct 12

• Tim Cook talks to VICE News Tonight about privacy Oct 8

• Stay humble, stay eager Oct 8

• What about ’my’ responsibilities? Sep 24

• Tesla, software and disruption Sep 18

• Forget the new iPhones - Apple’s best product is now privacy Sep 16

• The iPhone Franchise Sep 13

• The Long Goodbye (To Facebook) Sep 12

• Automation, Unemployment, and Universal Income Sep 12

• Serving your customer, valuing yourself Sep 10

• Yuval Noah Harari on what the year 2050 has in store for humankind Aug 30

• Living among baby robots Aug 30

• Voice Input’s Effect on Social Norms Aug 28

• How I kicked my email compulsion Aug 28

• Facebook's struggle to moderate itself Aug 24

• The Secret to Ant Efficiency Is Idleness Aug 21

• Google Employees Are Organizing To Protest the Company’s Secret Search Engine Aug 19

• Why Small Teams Win Aug 17

• Back to Work! Aug 13

• The Bullshit Web Aug 12

• Nikhil Sonnad on the banal evil of Facebook Aug 1

• Five questions UX employers should be asking Jul 23

• Just keep at it Jul 20

• High Fives, AI, and Connecting the Dots: MailChimp’s VP of Design on What Business can Learn from Design Jul 18

• Yes, Alan, There Is An ROI For UX Design Jul 18

• Rands Information Practises Jul 16

• The Race to a Trillion Jul 16

• Cheap Shower Curtains Jul 16

• What Elon Musk Should Learn From the Thailand Cave Rescue Jul 16

• Tech Sector Values are Broken? Jul 2

• Confirmation Bias in Design Jun 25

• Rise of the machines: has technology evolved beyond our control? Jun 24

• Good product writing is conversational Jun 21

• Retail is Not Dying, But it Has to Evolve Jun 21

• The Netflix Binge Factory Jun 15

• We are all trapped in the “Feed” Jun 14

• The Tools I Use to Run My Business Jun 14

• From the Drawing Board to the Board Room Jun 13

• Turn off your push notifications. All of them. Jun 13

• Stop “feeding” your users Jun 13

• Think inclusively at every step Jun 12

• No classes, no professors: the alternative to business school Jun 11

• Designer Ethics & The Moral Implications of our Apps Jun 11

• Conversion optimization with A/B tests Jun 4

• AI Ethics - A New Skill for UX-Designers May 28

• Netlify now shows your deploy status on its favicon May 25

• Let them eat cake May 24

• Netflix Culture May 21

• Skype May 16

• How do you learn UX? May 14

• The New Google Assistant May 9

• Who would you trust more with your data, Apple or the government? May 8

• What Happened to Apple’s Whimsy? May 8

• Unfoundered May 7

• Microcontent: A Few Small Words Have a Mega Impact on Business May 6

• GDPR is ruining my life May 5

• What’s in a pattern name May 5

• Requests for Personal Data From Apple, Google, and Facebook Compared May 5

• Twitter logged all user’s passwords in plain text May 5

• Apple Should Make an Instagram Clone Apr 27

• Google Debuts a Standalone To-Do App, Google Tasks Apr 27

• A Modest Guide to Productivity Apr 27

• Vanity Metrics Apr 26

• Tech is not Neutral Apr 24

• Facebook to exclude North American users from some privacy enhancements Apr 23

• Sen. Blumenthal: “Your business model is to maximize profit over privacy.” Apr 18

• Netflix has to "produce great content, market it well, serve it up beautifully." Apr 18

• My #1 Piece of Advice to Freelancers: Lean Into The Moment Apr 16

• Design Systems: Better UX through Defined Standards Apr 16

• Productivity Apr 16

• Tim Cook - We care about the user experience Apr 12

• Europe’s tough new data-protection law Apr 12

• The Real Technology Problem Apr 11

• Whose risk? Apr 9

• Why Small Teams Win Apr 9

• Phone Bored Apr 9

• Karim Rashid Apr 9

• Creative Class is open Apr 9

• Being cash-free puts us at risk of attack: Swedes turn against cashlessness Apr 3

• Dieter Rams Apr 3

• What’s a ‘User Experience’ Anyways? Apr 2

• Bleeding Out Mar 29

• Fake News is spam Mar 29

• Don't use the F word (freelancer) Mar 27

• Conversational Design Mar 27

• Dropbox Mar 27

• How Tech Giants Design For Transgender Users–Or Don’t Mar 27

• Everyone Is Going Through Something Mar 23

• It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work Mar 23

• Flight Crews Don’t Decide Where To Fly Mar 21

• New Tools Don’t Always Equal Productivity Mar 20

• Bye bye Facebook Mar 19

• Why Can Everyone Spot Fake News But YouTube, Facebook And Google? Mar 19

• The seat at the table Mar 19

• Cuba Mar 19

• Why I hate your fake redesign Mar 16

• Your competitors don’t matter Mar 15

• Diversity in the design industry Mar 15

• Givenchy Mar 15

• Apple’s "Sound on the Go" Strategy Mar 13

• The Most Important Design Skill For An AI-Dominated World Mar 12

• Love letters to trees Mar 11

• Amazon has a fix for Alexa’s creepy laughs Mar 9

• You have to make sure that you’re focused on the thing that matters. Mar 6

• Voice Input is the Next Big Thing - Or is It? Mar 4

• Pricing Philisophy Feb 28

• Specialize Feb 28

• AMP for email is a terrible idea Feb 27

• Is this Finnish school the perfect design? Feb 26

• The #1 reason Facebook won’t ever change Feb 25

• A Year of Learning and Leading UX at Google Feb 22

• C.A.R.E - A simple framework for user onboarding Feb 22

• A better user experience...or? Feb 19

• Inside Facebook´s Hellish Two Years Feb 19

• Everything Easy is Hard Again Feb 11

• Reflections on working on an iPad Feb 11

• Personas Feb 11

• How to succeed at freelancing Feb 6

• The iPhone X is Apple’s underrated masterpiece Feb 2

• Make me think Feb 1

• No Cutting Corners on the iPhone X Jan 22

• The Future of Retail Jan 22

• Hawaii Missile Alert Jan 15

• 2017 review Jan 8

• Why Design Systems fail Jan 5

• Has Apple lost its design mojo? Jan 5

• What You Build Jan 5

• Cindy Gallop - The Most Provocative Woman in the World Jan 5

• Measure your worth, know your motivations Dec 12

• The secret formula for great user experiences Nov 27

• Enjoyable UX vs. Usable UX Nov 14

• Living a Testing Culture Nov 10

• Checkout for Winners Nov 10

• What do you do? Oct 31

• Calling bullshit on ‘Apple is really bad at design’ Oct 16

• Creative Class Oct 7

• Tobias Ahlin: Where´d all the feelings go? Oct 3

• UX-writer: A New term, a Big Need Oct 3

• Stop Saying E-mail is Broken Sep 25

• How To Predict Your Future Sep 25

• Carpe Diem UX-designers Sep 11

• What´s Good Design? Sep 4

• Chasing Growth Aug 29

• Github Aug 28

• Medium Aug 25

• Are Your Customers Flowers or Plants? Aug 21

• What Would Augment Reality? Aug 16

• A Redesign Aug 15

• The One Ingredient All Great User Experiences Share Aug 9

• Being Freelance Podcast: Episode 100 Jul 14

• Design quotes Jul 10

• Enough Jul 7

• True fans or just followers? Jul 5

• Why? Jul 4

• Groundwork for Creating Great User Experiences Jun 30

• 4 Reasons Why Your Body Text Should be Bigger Jun 30

• No Share Buttons on Mobile Sites Jun 30

• ARKit Jun 30

• The Why before the Why Jun 30

• Now that Apple is talking about AR and VR, should we be too? Jun 26

• Think like an artist to create better designs Jun 20

• Investing in businesses and products Jun 13

• 10 Reasons Why All Designers Should Start Writing More Jun 8

• Become a better UX-designer with these three words Jun 8

• Vox Media Accessibility Guidelines Jun 6

• Writing for UX: some practical tips Jun 5

• The future of the UX-Designer May 30

• How to attract top recruiting talent May 28

• Why Designers Need to Write May 25

• You are the Alfred to Batman May 22

• How better onboarding cut our drop-off rate dramatically May 22

• Understanding Great User Experiences May 17

• New isn’t always better, but it makes the old feel worse Apr 5

• Designing for Mobile Mar 28

• The Possibilities of Automated Personalized Content Mar 20

• Atomic Design – where science and design collide Mar 13

• Is Less More? Mar 6

• Designing for Accessibility Feb 21

• Why Simple is Hard Feb 7

• Becoming a Better Designer Jan 19

• Without Struggle, There Isn’t Success Jan 5

• Email Marketing: High Returns, Low Investment Dec 10

• Apple is User Hostile… Or is it? Nov 28

• Pricing It Perfectly Nov 22

• Habits: Small Actions can have Big Results Oct 31

• Product or Sales? Chicken or Egg? Oct 11

• Failure, Reflect, Renew Sep 28

• From Idea to Market – Launching a Product Sep 12

• What do Conversions Mean to You? Aug 23

• User Experiences that Matter 2:nd Edition Aug 9

• 5 Things Football can Teach Us About Building Products Jul 11

• Trusting Your Gut Jun 27

• What are Bots and Why are They Important? Jun 10

• Change is Quick, Results Take Time May 30

• Making Promises Your Clients Will Feel May 17

• Designing with Emotions in Mind Apr 30

• UX Design as a Problem Solver Apr 18

• The Life of a Freelancer Shouldn’t be a Lonely One Apr 11

• The Secret Feature that Everyone Knows About Apr 4

• No One Really Knows What They Want Anyway Mar 21

• Built to last Mar 7

• Be the Butcher not the Supermarket Feb 22

• The Interactive Car Dashboard Feb 9

• Simplicity – Be Your Own MVP Jan 25

• Why User Experiences Matter Jan 12

• An Eye on the Future Dec 16

• The Fundamentals of Good UX Dec 7

• What is a Great User Experience? Nov 17

• The Extra Effort for Great UX Nov 3

• Everyone is a UX-designer and Why I Hate the Term Oct 19

• Coming soon: User Experiences that Matter e-book Oct 6

• Increase conversions by removing social sharing buttons Sep 21

• Time vs. Attention: Which is More Valuable? Sep 21

• Growing Relationships by Understanding Values Sep 3

• UX is Much More than Software Aug 24

• Hey Siri, what’s the future of user interfaces? Aug 11

• Understanding Pain Dream Fix Jul 28

• What movies I’ve watched and books I’ve read Jul 27

• I am Professional Because I am Personal Jul 13

• MVP – Is Your Product Really Minimum AND Viable? Jun 30

• How designers can earn a seat at the table Jun 26

• The days are long but the decades are short Jun 23

• Growth Jun 16

• Working with UX-designers and getting results! Jun 16

• What is the cost of ‘sharing’? Jun 3

• The path of a successful app Jun 2

• Freelancer for Life – 5 Reasons Why This Works May 12

• Working with me May 5

• Planners and UX-Designers Apr 23

• Kudos – Social Media framework Apr 14

• Understanding UI Design Apr 14

• UX Design explained Apr 14

• Look and Feel and Feel Apr 13

• Great user experience Apr 9

• Naming your icons Apr 7

• Golden Krishna on Our Job as Designers Apr 7

• Conversations Nov 13

• Cost, pricing and perceived value Apr 9