Stef Walter

I'm here for it, I've seen mockups in excel, very 1999 colspan rowspan style muhhaha

Excel is a design and UX research tool. You can now fight @morganepeng.bsky.social and me on that. 💜

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Let's play a game of "is it PowerPoint or a meditation app I'm about to open'". Surprise 🫢

A man standing on stage at a UX conference. Behind him is a large screen showing a Venn diagram with two circles labeled Passion and Purpose overlapping in the center, with text below reading that’s the good stuff.

Does your work overlap with your passion?
Working in enterprise UX, I never really know how to answer that. Am I passionate about car dealerships, cranes on construction sites, custom forms, finance and banking? Nope.
But I am passionate about solving complex problems. So, it kind of does?
#uxcon

Naaah chamomile is absolutely loyal good. Chaotic neutral would be like chai, but with some milk I guess 😂

Modern products intertwine the digital and physical. We must create flexible systems.

"If accessibility is the solution, then disability is the opportunity. Disability is complex, so we must design flexible solutions." - Dave Dame

"One size fits one", I love this quote from Bryce Johnson's talk on adaptive and inclusive controllers for video games. But to build this, we indeed need to think beyond our own assumptions. And recognize that not everyone can use the controller with 2 hands.
#GameAccessibility #uxcon

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Vienna's weather wasn't nice to my throat, but the nice people from @uxtweak.bsky.social got the best goodies ever at uxcon vienna, let's hope it will help for tomorrow's talk!!

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Back in August several academics raised concerns that a Deloitte report to government may have been generated using AI. Deloitte denied this and put the citation errors down to poor editing.

Anyway, Deloitte are refunding the government $440,000 for a report that was written using AI.

UX so bad that it's illegal Big tech is divesting from user-centered design, and getting into hot water with the law.

Big tech is laying off user researchers in droves, because it believes that coercing its customers is more profitable than silly things like "making good products people want to buy."

But now the FAFO pendulum is coming around, with Amazon's $2.5B dark pattern settlement and #a11y lawsuits galore.

I'm sometimes amazed (and annoyed) at how many typos I still have in some of my posts, even while using a plugin to check grammar and typos. Meh, welcome to low attention span non-native English speaker. Let's pretend it's on purpose to prove I'm a meat bag on an internet full of robots, okay?

I'm technically French, but, my stomach is German, so, yeah, big fan of Abendbrot with cheese, ham and other type of charcuteries hehe.

Ohh thank you so much, I bookmarked them to do a couple tomorrow maybe. I went to the zoo today it was quite nice too :)

I'll check them out thanks!!!

Okay folks i'm in Vienna next to MAK and Kunst Haus. What's fun to do? What should I eat? Any nice places for breakfast? 😁

Thank you!!!

Assorted stickers and badges, featuring phrases like Talk to your users, ADHD as heck, AUDHD chaos, Tea because murder is frowned upon, and Coffee because murder is frowned upon, along with cartoon skulls, cats, and pumpkins.

Getting ready for uxcon Vienna
- slides: checked
- stickers: checked
- new badges: checked.
- luggage: hum, work in progress 😅


I hope to meet a couple of you there!!!!

Resisting the urge to get your whole wardrobe in the luggage because you are a mood dresser and can't plan in what mood you will be next week is hard.
I envy people who can plan their clothes. I'm just so bad at this 😱

I love the conclusion here: “I don't think it's in bloating assistive tech with AI, but in teaching people how to write inclusively. It's cheaper and more sustainable, but it’s also a more ethical and empathetic path.” Yup

Okay, but at what cost? Many actually: low accuracy, development time, hardware strain, energy consumption, consumer impact (they might have to pay more for the screen reader).

Screen readers do not need to be saved by AI Why LLMs should not be integrated with screen readers

Screen readers do not need to be saved by AI! I absolutely agree with @craigabbott.co.uk. I’ve been in many discussions where, people do something annoying for screen reader user (like the overuse of emojis), and instead of thinking why this is annoying go “yeah, but technology should solve it”. .

Ha yeah. I should be fine. I also won't stop structuring things and writing long articles because this is what I've always done.
I've decided to go for a 4 topics 3 example for each in this one. Maybe this is why it sounds robotic, because it's perfect math. But it's also my choice

I'm scared it will tell me it's LLM text because it's too organized 😂

Yeah exactly. How dare humans be organized and hoard information and content on specific topics 🤣

To be clear: I wasn't expecting the bullshit machine to come up with something useful anyway, but, still, this has been a fun adventure.

Does it mean, my brain works like a LLM? It takes me forever to pass most CAPTCHAS, so, maybe, I am a robot? What's reality? Who knows?

Anyway, it was a fun exercice.

3. "The exhaustive coverage plus neat structuring is LLM-ish": well, yes, I have 30 pages of research on the topic, with many sources, articles, etc. That's how I work. Also, I'm incapable of writing a small article, hahhaa. Yup.