I used to live in that region. The whole thing was a Criminal Minds episode but real life. On the outer edge of suburban Milwaukee, it got a lot of airtime.

I concur

There’s a type of designer that is always cycling through the loops of onboarding, examining problems you’re hired to solve, then being attacked by your org for upsetting what is. I’ve set pet-to-threat land speed records.

I once was a UX consultant on a master data project for brewery operations and global distribution. Went from being the pixel pusher to essentially performing the product manager because I knew what questions to ask about the work the system was supposed to support and could speak data modeling.

They want more fuel to keep treating the few women in management with disdain and hostility. The glass cliff is real.

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Alice Wong's Teen Vogue articles were archived before their removal, for anyone looking.