To be fair, it’s solid research for Parkopedia’s needs (they sponsored the study). Early-stage research, directional feedback, etc. The issue is when it gets treated like generalizable market demand or readiness for infrastructure investment.

I downloaded the report. They conducted focus groups + in-session surveys: 30 total participants, all from Chicago. Controlled demos, no real-world use. Not statistically meaningful, and it skips data governance, security, or payment system complexity. Not sure why it's even being cited.

New Deafheaven is incredible. UO will have to grow on me because comparison is the thief of joy, and I just wanna feel the way it felt when I heard DTGL for the first time.

Asking about the tool was eye opening...if we hadn't known about it, braille display users could have skewed our study results. It's also a piece of technology we would have never intentionally recruited for (I do now). Learn something new everyday!

Shameless plug, I created userexperience.directory, which has a research method selection wizard to help juniors I work with branch out of their standard usability tests. I launched it recently, so still needs love, but I'm working on anonymizing templates and real protocols to add as samples.

I get the same notification, but with "Salesperson". I've never worked in sales nor do I ever plan to, but I have tons of connections in sales roles from previous IT contracts, so I assumed it was pulling titles from your network.

Beautiful work. An agency site that's straight to the point about what they offer AND lets me scroll at whatever pace I want? Love to see it.

Thanks so much for sharing!

That is, running studies with participants of varying abilities. I learned it's incredibly difficult to simulate how someone uses assistive technology (often fast 5x speed for screen readers, tons of shortcuts) or customizes their device's features to meet their needs.

Thanks for taking a look and sharing! Great point, my goal for the accessibility evaluation page next week is to add a recruitment plan template and some best practices for running moderated studies... The stuff I learned the hard way with blind/low vision participants.

Here's a little demo!

Yes! Pretty much. I've found some interesting gardens on various topics...some just general, gaming guilds, data science, philosophy... I've used marginalia-search.com to search and browse them. It's like mind floss to me at this point.

TLDR: a personal wiki. They’re notes and ideas linked together by association. Less formal than a blog and embrace the concept of learning in public. M. Appleton’s post on the concept is often cited! Use of gen AI has made so many blogs unreadable for me, so I’m finding gardens refreshing to read.

That’s a good thought…reminds me of Google+ (RIP) and their circles feature.

There are so few examples of surprise and delight, I bookmark them. This is my final boss(hint: it’s not confetti on click)
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I scrolled the comments looking for at least one Underoath mention. Thanks for your service.

Thanks for sharing!