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spydergrrl talks UX Theatre on Good Morning UX
I had the pleasure of talking about (what else?) UX Theatre with some new friends over at Design Team as part of their Good Morning UX podcast series. Good Morning UX is about “the universe of design inserted in practical contexts about…
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Tackling UX theatre: What designers can do
Illustration by Claire Murray via Flickr UX Theatre is the application of any sort of design methodology without including a single user in the process, or including users but merely for show. You’ve heard about it. In fact, you’re living…
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UX design has a dirty secret (My Fast Company CO.Design article)
Source Photos: cosmin4000/iStock, u.u./iStock I am excited to announce that I have written an article for Fast Company Co.Design which digs into UX Theatre. In it, I cover: What is UX Theatre? How two fundamental issues in the user experience…
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UX Theatre on UX Podcast (Episode #267)
UX Theatre has been getting some press in the first half of 2021. Just this Spring: Jesse James Garrett wrote about it in Fast Company (see I helped pioneer UX design. What I see today disturbs me) Tricia Wang also wrote…
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UX Theatre: The Poster
In January 2018, I wrote a Twitter thread about how some user experience projects tend to pay lip service to user-centered design rather than being actual user-centered design. I used the term “UX Theatre” to describe the phenomenon. Based on the…
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UX Theatre talk pitch
An overview of my talk on UX Theatre, which can be delivered as a full talk or a poster presentation. UX Theatre is a term I coined to describe those projects that pay lip service to user-centered design. In my…
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UX Theatre: Are You Just Acting Like You’re Doing User-Centered Design?
Back in January 2018, I wrote a Twitter thread about projects that pay lip service to user-centered design (UCD) and what we can do about it as designers. Here’s an expanded write-up of the topic, for those of you who…
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