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This would be a good time for someone in the Democratic party to point out that Republicans are always terrible for the economy. Hoover, Bush, Bush the 2nd, Trump... Not Ike, but he was the one with the 90% tax bracket.
April 7, 2025 at 1:53 PM
This Friday is Failure Friday! For Failure Friday #2, @hangxu.bsky.social will join us to come clean about the trials and tribulations of being a design recruiter in days like these. Bring your own failure stories to share; this *won't* be recorded. Free; register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Failure Friday #2: The Joys of Design Recruiting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Hang is a former staff UX designer in the robotics space and now works as a design recruiter. In a brilliantly timed move, Hang founded Collective Supply two weeks before mass tech layoffs started in ...
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March 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Coming up tomorrow (Wednesday, Feb 26), 4-5pm ET: free Rosenverse session with Daniel Gloyd: "Designing Warmth". Register here: rosenfeldmedia.com/sessions/des...
Designing Warmth | Rosenfeld Media
In order to thrive, we humans need to experience the interconnectedness between ourselves and the world around us. But despite unprecedented connectivity, the modern commercial, social, and educationa...
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February 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
...and this is happening Thursday, 11am-noon ET: "Getting started with accessibility research" with Elana Chapman (moderator), Annabel Weiner, Li Wen Huang, and Divyen Sanganee. Sponsored by the good folks at Fable; it's also free!
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Getting started with accessibility research | Rosenfeld Media
In partnership with Fable, join us for a panel discussion aimed at UX researchers on how to get started with accessibility research. Featuring industry experts from Discover, LEGO, and Ally Financial,...
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February 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This is happening Wednesday, 11am-noon ET, and it's free: "Decarbonising User Journeys" with James Chudley. Register here: rosenfeldmedia.com/sessions/dec...
Decarbonising User Journeys | Rosenfeld Media
Climate UX feels like a new and emerging field but one that needs to mature quickly. Given the ever-growing evidence for climate change, why isn’t sustainability higher up on the agenda or missing fro...
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February 17, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Advancing Research 2025 is our sixth conference on #UXR, taking place on March 11-13. But why should you attend? Well, this year we're talking all about the future of the practice and our program reflects just that.

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Advancing Research 2025: A Conference for the Future of Research | Rosenfeld Media
Exciting news for the research community! We've just unveiled the program for Advancing Research 2025, and it's set to be a game-changer. This year's conference takes a bold new approach to addressing...
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January 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Tomorrow's free Rosenverse session: "A Human-Centered Design Approach to Cybersecurity" with Heidi Trost: 4-5pm ET Jan 23. Register here: rosenfeldmedia.com/sessions/to-...

#cybersecurity #UX
January 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
If you're looking for ideas and inspiration regarding how designers can build sustainability into their work, look no further.

Join us for tomorrow's free Rosenverse session with Tristin Oldani: 11am-12pm ET, Thursday January 16. And bring a friend!

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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Turning awareness into action with Climate UX. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Join us for a conversation with Tristin Oldani, UX strategist at Intel who is challenging how we think about digital sustainability. What happens when we truly understand the environmental impact of ...
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January 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
2 free Rosenverse sessions this week:
• Wed, 11am-12pm ET: Sentient Design, AI, and the Radically Adaptive Experience (@bigmediumjosh.bsky.social & @veronikakindred.bsky.social)
• Thu, 11am-12pm ET: Turning awareness into action w/Climate UX (Tristin Oldani)

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January 14, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Something actually positive for your feed: Rosa Chang's incredible work envisioning and actually creating what will be a 9-acre (!) park in lower Manhattan. She's kind of the anti-Robert Moses, and gives me hope. I interviewed her for the Rosenfeld Review: soundcloud.com/rosenfeld-me...
Envisioning and Creating New York City’s Next Park with Rosa Chang
Imagine transforming a forgotten, dark space beneath one of New York’s most iconic landmarks into a vibrant community hub—this is the ambitious vision behind Gotham Park. Facilitating the vision and c
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January 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Are you a UX designer, researcher, writer? Or a product person? Are you using AI in your work in productive, innovative ways?

We're looking for great case studies for Designing with AI 2025 conference; call for proposals are due January 10: rosenfeldmedia.com/designing-wi...
Call for Case Studies | Designing with AI
Are you a UX designer, researcher, writer, or product person who is using AI to improve your practice or product? Then we’d love to learn more! We’re seeking speakers to present their case studies at ...
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December 30, 2024 at 8:00 PM
We humans generally focus far more on the bad things than the good. If you could take a pill to invert that tendency, would you? The bad things would still be happening, but your attention would be consumed by the positive stuff. Would you sign up for that?
December 18, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Thought experiment: it's 2016. Trump enters the Democratic primary. (Not crazy talk; arguably his "anti-establishment" platform overlapped with Bernie's.)

Does Trump win the Democratic primary?

How would he then fare against, say, Jeb?
December 11, 2024 at 7:29 PM
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"Have fun with statistics?"

Join me and Erin Weigel and @louisrosenfeld.bsky.social

We'll compare our ideas on statistical significance, effect sizes, and maybe some other stats topics.
Thurs 12th Dec, 5pm CET, 4pm GMT, 11am EST. Free.

#statistics #mrx
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Let’s face it, many of us feel daunted by statistics. But we also know that colleagues and clients ask whether our research has “statistically significant” results. Erin’s book Design for Impact hel...
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December 10, 2024 at 5:34 PM
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There are only a few days left to shop our biggest sale of the year! 😱

Give yourself (or a friend) the gift of good UX.

Shop the sale: rosenfeldmedia.com/winter-sale
December 6, 2024 at 2:58 PM
Pleasantly surprised: applied to renew my passport with the US State Department. Confirmation email said to anticipate 4-6 week turnaround. Fresh new passport arrived 8 days after applying.

I like to think that some clever #CivicDesign folks had something to do with this...
December 5, 2024 at 9:34 PM
It's not every week we launch a brand new conference! Excited to be diving into #ServiceDesign with a couple hundred fellow travelers at #ASD2024 (virtual; Dec. 3-4). You can still buy a ticket; also, we have free sponsored events that are actually really great: rosenfeldmedia.com/advancing-se...
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December 2, 2024 at 2:50 PM
I came up with a term that I thought was clever: "corporate cartography". (I'd like someone to write a book on making sense of/mapping large organizations). But dangit, pretty much everything out there is about... mining. 🤔
November 26, 2024 at 9:49 PM
One of my biggest professional regrets is making a commitment to WordPress for @rosenfeldmedia.bsky.social many years ago. Hindsight is always 20/20, but we've been so constrained by its brittleness and lack of object orientation.
November 22, 2024 at 11:22 PM
NYT article on US immigration: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/b...

Political asylum aside, could we depoliticize the issue by framing it in purely economic terms? Regulate the flow of immigrants depending on economic conditions, just like the Fed regulates the money supply and interest rates?
Why Trump Allies Say Immigration Hurts American Workers
JD Vance and others on the “new right” say limiting immigration will raise wages and give jobs to sidelined Americans. Many studies suggest otherwise.
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November 22, 2024 at 8:50 PM
Imagine we talked about AI without using the term "AI" (or "artificial intelligence"). What do we find ourselves actually discussing?

Automation? Findability? Ethics? Content creation? Personal assistants? Improved accessibility? Something else?

What are we trying to do/solve for here?
November 21, 2024 at 9:52 PM