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bjkraal.bsky.social
Experience Designer, Researcher & Strategist. Former design academic but really a sociologist. Probably reading. Brisbane, Australia www.benkraal.com
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< Aston Martin Valkyrie, 2020 > Colani C112, 1970

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My spicy UX take for Monday is that UI is dev, not design. Yes, even if you only use figma.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

My #ux Hot Take for today is that research platforms like UserTesting and Maze are much more like survey tools than not. Proceed with caution. *full disclosure: I do customer success work and consulting delivery for one of these platforms.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Posting kei cars until I go viral

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

submitted 48 days ago • 539 comments

not only is it a perfect Sandman but it’s also a perfect place to take a nap www.australianmusclecarsales.com.au/cars/1977-hz...

submitted 49 days ago • 7 comments

Remember, people are disabled by bad assumptions, design, code, architecture, content, processes, policies, go governance, attitudes and biases, to name a few. So before you say accessibility is done FOR disabilities, recognise it’s our decisions that disable our users.

submitted 49 days ago • 3 comments

"If protest didn't work, they wouldn't try to ban it." "If information weren't so valuable, they wouldn't try to hide it." "Don't think for a minute you don't have power." "Don't think for a minute you can't make change." @richarddenniss.bsky.social wraps up the #ClimateIntegrity Summit.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

I have had clients ask for “workshops” to “validate” a new website. Me: do you mean usability testing? Them: yes, workshops. Me: do you mean multiple people at the same time using separate laptops? Them: individual workshops will be fine if that’s what you’d recommend. Individual. Workshops.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Yesss. I had an ‘82 RX-7. We had a kid. I looked into these and ended up in a Peugeot 405 Mi16. As you do.

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

every word of this www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

submitted 58 days ago • 2 comments

The idea that if you have the slides you can deliver the presentation devalues the slides, the presentation, and what’s supposed to happen afterwards.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

I deep-cleaned and re-stained the deck today. In other news, I am “needs an NSAID after yard work” years old.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

What folks are seeing here is a protest masculinity based around technical skill and knowledge, challenging currently hegemonic performances of masculinity. They’re both bad. Technical masculinities are bad in the ways being outlined.

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

I have taken the resources that were in the budget and which you were probably saving for higher education Forgive me they were needed to feed the AI bubble and to dismantle the humanities

submitted 78 days ago • 21 comments

Vanity Project with Helen Razer and Ross Floate: It's not just our launch that's soft. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/v...

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

thread, up and down. also, not to put too fine a point on it, if you are managing any kind of neurodivergence or mental health issue, shorting yourself on sleep will quickly turn that into a crisis.

submitted 83 days ago • 2 comments

Building faster than you can learn is waste. Most Agile teams do not often revisit work already done, which means they aren't learning in any meaningful sense. Forget Build-Measure-Learn. It's just "Build-Measure-Build". thelaterallens.substack.com/p/why-agile-...

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

This would be more fun if they were treating AI as more like EVP (listening for ghosts on the static on blank tapes) than whatever they’re doing.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

the answer to a question in a headline is always "no", but never has the answer to a question in a headline been MORE "no" than how much "no" it is here

submitted 91 days ago • 380 comments

I'm involved in tech hiring. I've interviewed thousands of engineers. And I'd like to tell you about a disturbing trend I've seen in tech in the last 10 years 🧵

submitted 91 days ago • 11 comments

@thesiswhisperer.bsky.social ok, I’m going in!

submitted 115 days ago • 1 comment

So I was a guest at a meetup last week. One of the participants used an AI notes and summary tool. The thing that struck me when looking at the summary afterwards is that what got talked about most was actually the least important part of the conversation, but the tool had no way of knowing that.

submitted 116 days ago • 8 comments