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Johanna Sneed
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Digital Accessibility Consultant, UX Researcher, MS in Human-Computer Interaction, Experienced in UX and App Dev Management

✦ I run: userexperience.directory
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Here's a little demo!
March 5, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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There are so few examples of surprise and delight, I bookmark them. This is my final boss(hint: it’s not confetti on click)
Captured from uxdesign.cc/wheres-the-f...
Screen capture of a a promotion email for the Transfromers Fall of Cybertron. In the left, the I image displays a graphic of the transformers. On the right, the same graphic is portrayed by empty images and blank boxes forming the shape of the autobot logo. The article text reads: Taking this idea further — and this is where we get to the easter egg! — Chris Donald describes how Sony PlayStation sliced their hero image into separate blocks with different background colours to create fallback pixel art out of those blocks if the images fail to load. “The email’s hero image has been sliced and styled to reveal the Transformers’ Autobots logo when images are disabled.” (screenshot and quote via Chris Donald) This example really captures the essence of deliberately adding alternative versions of playful touches where the standard use case (assuming images will load) doesn’t apply.
February 20, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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I went down an AR rabbit hole yesterday. I’m struggling to find use cases for a beginner but I did prototype this little furniture page! If you’d like to test it (obliq.johannasneed.com). Idk how well it works on Android, but I *think* it’s compatible. If not, just one more thing to learn 🙂 #AR #UX
February 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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It's refreshing to see meaningful and responsible AI. Shoutout to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology for:
- Having a clear understandable photo policy
- Explaining their purpose and the benefits of contributing data
- Informing me when and how my data is used for ML training
- Bonus: a thank you!
A screenshot of a thank you e-mail from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology reads: Thank you for contributing photos to eBird and the Macaulay Library. This November, we released a new version of Photo ID in Merlin, and we wanted to extend our gratitude for the important part you played in the creation of this new resource. 1 of your photos were used to train Merlin to identify birds in photos. Thanks to you and 112,476 other eBirders, this new Photo ID model, now available as part of Merlin version 3.5, can identify 6,900 species of birds across the world. This model was trained using a more robust dataset of bird photos than ever before, and the result is a significantly more accurate model than what was previously available. Read more about how this model was built. We are looking forward to future updates to Photo ID. By continuing to add photos to your eBird checklists, and following best practices for photo contributions, you can help Merlin Photo ID to cover even more regions and species—as well as improve accuracy on species already covered. Thank you again for helping make Merlin possible. Your contributions are helping birders worldwide put a name to the birds they see, hear, and photograph. Happy birding, The Macaulay Library, eBird, and Merlin teams
November 27, 2024 at 4:27 PM