Notices by Susan Farrell (joytrek@hci.social)

@inthehands @Hunterrules0_o The consequences of Covid infections are more than just hospitalizations and death. Long Covid, strokes, diabetes, heart attacks, other CV problems are very common, particularly on reinfection. Paul was talking about the likelihood of infection, which rises with waste water levels, so the other lines were not as relevant. Plus they are available via his link, so...

@inthehands @Enema_Cowboy Usability testing for the win.

@inthehands @Enema_Cowboy Amazing. What convinced them?

@Enema_Cowboy @inthehands The awareness in tech of the value of the discipline is much better now than 30 years ago when I started working in UX.

Now that every company is in the web and app business, though, it's clear that each company (and each graphic designer) must learn at some point that UI design is not just visual aesthetics. That learning curve is often quite expensive, which may speed folks along.

@inthehands @Enema_Cowboy

UX researcher here. That's part of what we do.

We interview people who have the problem, people who need the solution, and people who use competitor products in order to understand what people need, their pain points, their workarounds, and why they do it the way they do it now.

@thomasfuchs Sorry you are suffering this. In case you missed it, Oregon has recently legalized psylocybin therapy. Some find that more effective than ketamine even in very low doses.