Austin Govella

Austin Govella

@austingovella.bsky.social

I help teams work better. Strategy, information architecture, service design, and workshop facilitation: https://agux.co/

521 Followers 199 Following 965 Posts Joined Aug 2023
6 hours ago

You in Philly for IAC. I’ve seen intelligence reports. You up for dinner one night?

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6 hours ago

Are you willing to pay the AI-determined cancellation fee? Also, call me. I’ll answer. I promise. Pinky swear.

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6 hours ago

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but… we’re full up on weather AND idiots

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6 hours ago

I was trying to share to Instagram but the interface is inscrutable. What the fuck design world? What the fuck? You had one job.

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2 days ago
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Teams just gave me this message asking me to complete a CAPTCHA to prove I'm a person

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3 days ago

I told Claude to stop being sycophantic and it did

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3 days ago

At the top of this week’s first world problems, European record labels have suspended shipping to the U.S. so I can’t get the records I want.

*sigh*

While the rest of the timeline burns…

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4 days ago
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Something's messed up...

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1 week ago

Happy #WIAD to all who celebrate 😍

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1 week ago

Loved it!

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1 week ago

My grandmother called them goo-gaws and I’ve always loved that

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1 week ago

I use Apple Music for this. It stored my MP3s in the cloud and lets me stream My music across any of my devices.

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1 week ago
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NEW PLAYLIST DAY! 60% of the music is new, and the rest are oldies covering the previous 6 decades 🎧 ❤️‍🔥 🤘 #NewMusic #Playlist #NowListening #Music
shiveryourtimbers.ca/blog/schmutz...

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2 weeks ago

I am still chuckling about this hours later

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2 weeks ago

What? No pants?!?!

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2 weeks ago
Product Blueprints: Documenting the IA of Products talk at IAC26 by Dan Brown. Presentation on creating documentation standards for product information architecture and enabling constructive team conversations about product structure. April 16, 2026, Philadelphia, PA. Product Blueprints: Documenting the IA of Products talk at IAC26 by Dan Brown. Presentation on creating documentation standards for product information architecture and enabling constructive team conversations about product structure. April 16, 2026, Philadelphia, PA.

We have site maps and flow charts but no standard for documenting product IA.

@brownorama.bsky.social's IAC26 talk identifies a recipe for product blueprints that enable better team conversations about product structure.

April 16, Philadelphia: www.theiaconference.com/sessions/pro...

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3 weeks ago

That is pretty amazing

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3 weeks ago

Work today: draft questions for RFP, present stakeholder interview themes, draft experience principles, develop pitch storyline, review pitch deck, finalize persona segmentation

(I think I might post this every few days, so some can see what work *can* look like for senior UX/strategy people)

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3 weeks ago

The interview is fantastic. I’ve learned so much about the band and your process.

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3 weeks ago
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LIVAKT#564 : Rodney Orpheus | The Cassandra Complex YouTube video by Tormentor Radio Show

The full 3 hours of music and interview of The Cassandra Complex on French radio is now up on YouTube - and yes, the interview is in English, my French is definitely not good enough to do an interview in :-)

youtu.be/hf4NdQfSj7E?...

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3 weeks ago

They included “We can work it out”! Such a great song.

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3 weeks ago
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Current An RSS reader that doesn't count. What happens when you stop treating your feeds like an inbox and start treating them like a river.

Fantastic write up of all the rationales behind the design of the new RSS reader, Current.

Required reading if you’re in UX or product design:

www.terrygodier.com/current

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3 weeks ago

Stay away. I saw her first.

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3 weeks ago

That must've been an epic sigh

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3 weeks ago

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3 weeks ago
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Leaving Las Vegas (1995) ⭐ 7.5 | Drama, Romance 1h 51m | R

Drop the worst date movie you ever saw.

Mine was Leaving Las Vegas. It was our first date, and we had no idea what to expect other than we’d heard it was good.

Definitely some kind of vibe walking out to the car afterwards:

m.imdb.com/title/tt0113...

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3 weeks ago
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Greatest Hits, Vol. One: A Slight Case of Overbombing (2018 Remaster) by The Sisters of Mercy on Apple Music Album · 1993 · 12 Songs

I think that's when I started listening to the Sisters of Mercy. And look at me now :-)

music.apple.com/us/album/gre...

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1 month ago

I’ve been thinking about this all night. And I don’t want to be that “back in my day” type of old guy, but…

$20 would have been a flush night with more drinks than you needed and food and smokes.

Now, I don’t drink well, so a mixed drink is $9. 3 of those plus food is a $50 night. Without tips.

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1 month ago
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Vibe Raider - Mix 002 - Revenant Valentine Songs invoking the memories of former lovers

I posted a new mix on Mixcloud for @cut.buzz but you might like it to.

It crosses genres and spends a lot of time in 80s alternative:
www.mixcloud.com/austingovell...

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1 month ago

I just thought it was typical B-school bad writing.

I understand how bad writers might want to lean on LLMs to help improve their writing, but they never get better than mediocre. And they were probably mediocre but more interesting before.

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