@banderlin.bsky.social
Founder of Watch City Research, UX Researcher, PhD student, Editor of / author in 97 UX Things book and litter eschewer
Hocus Pocus by Focus - a 7-minute song fit into a 5-minute TV time slot without skippning a beat.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyxS...
One comp exam down, three to go. Definitely one of the harder things I've ever done. Quite the weekend.
15.07.2025 14:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0usually I am a ‘need for speed’ type of researcher , but I was also a heavy proponent of manual analysis
the work is excruciating, tedious, etc… but the outcome is extraordinary.
the trend of researchers offloading qualitative research to AI is freaking me out (beyond the automation bias)
Needed some good news. Prog fans rejoice!
www.stereogum.com/2314598/king...
I think we all need some beautiful and inspirational music this morning
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x3t...
A temperature gun pointed at the pavement. It reads 148.5 degrees.
Careful out there today folks!
24.06.2025 16:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
AI may make us cognitively bankrupt:
www.media.mit.edu/publications...
x.com/itsalexvacca...
I've come to the conclusion that Occam's Razor has become outdated in the modern age. I hereby propose to replace it with Occam's Spoon. The explanation that makes the least sense is probably true
09.06.2025 16:33 — 👍 105 🔁 24 💬 0 📌 0
Wednesday's concert reminded me how much I love The Wheel. So beautiful and inspirational.
Every time that wheel turn 'round, bound to cover just a little more ground.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZK8...
If this keeps up, we're gonna have a popcorn shortage pretty soon.
05.06.2025 21:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Boston's Symphony Hall lit up in purple. It's a far view to the stage from the second balcony. The Boston Pops are on stage with six other musicians.
Jerry Garcia Symphonic Celebration with the Boston Pops was pretty darn amazing.
05.06.2025 03:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Audience member plays Stu's guitar on Dragon and absolutely nails it. What other band would do this? Gizz is the best. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkBA...
03.06.2025 14:09 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A car console with various buttons (seat heater, defrost, etc.). One of which is now labeled with a turtle shell.
New car mod. Beware, tailgaters.
02.06.2025 16:54 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Another day, another attempt at turning off Copilot in mobile Outlook
20.05.2025 13:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Imagine telling someone from the 1970s that in the future the tech industry, corporate CEOs and world leaders had a choice between SQL and ELIZA as tools to help grow the economy and they chose ELIZA
12.05.2025 13:25 — 👍 32 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 0
A mockup of a web browser search engine. "Enter here" is shown in the browser address bar. "Do not put web address here" is shown in the search engine search box.
I'm a little obsessed with this diagram instructing users where to enter a URL.
06.05.2025 15:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If I had a dollar for every time I heard my content is good, but my visual design sucks, I'd be a rich man.
30.04.2025 18:15 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Anyone have a quick way to convert .VTT transcript files into a format that NVivo likes?
30.04.2025 13:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Watermelon in Easter Hay is Zappa's finest guitar solo. Sublime and soulful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3cu...
20.04.2025 15:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A black and tan dog with cute little ears sloppy sitting on a diamond-patterned maroon rug. That is, he's sitting directly on his butt, with one leg under him, making it extra cute. He's staring up at the camera.
Shadow timeline cleanser
16.04.2025 19:19 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The best design process welcomes chaos at the start but demands order by the end.
UX Fortune Cookie:
The best design process welcomes chaos at the start but demands order by the end.
#ux #fortunecookie
Zappa's What's New in Baltimore? goes through so many emotional phases and is such a great example of his unique guitar playing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhDd...
I always get a little kick when I write "see you next Wednesday" in an email.
11.04.2025 18:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Usability/usefulness of Snell Charts: Opthalmologists really should mix up the letters in their Snell Charts for those of us who visit frequently enough to have the charts memorized. E V O T Z 2
11.04.2025 14:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
"Errors live in a weird space between design and development, so they sometimes get lost in the mix."
HubSpot interviewed me about the Usability Heuristic "Recognize, Diagnose, and Recover from Errors." Here's the full article that covers all 10 standard heuristics.
Just discovered that Ian Anderson played with PFM in 2010. Amazing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIXZ...
Go Bentley!
28.03.2025 19:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Shout out to the @bentleyu.bsky.social men's hockey team for winning the Atlantic Hockey championship! They're playing in the NCAA tourney for their first time against BC - 2pm on Friday at SNHU Arena in Manchester. I'll be there! Go Falcons!
24.03.2025 00:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I sat outside and read today for the first time this year. It was lovely.
19.03.2025 22:15 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A open styrofoam container with food in it. Sitting on a bed of yellow rice is a mound of shredded, delicious pork, and three fried plantains.
A new Dominican restaurant opened in Waltham. Never thought I'd be able to get pernil delivered, but here we are. It was amazing.
12.03.2025 00:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
