Back in the summer of 2005 when I was still a web technical support rep, still studying for my master’s and running out of time for both, I decided it was time to convert my website from something I was manually updating into something that used an actual Content Management Service. I researched Joomla and … Continue reading “A user experience in content management that I could live without”

You’re exhausted because we’re in a pandemic. Because we’re in a pandemic and schools aren’t back to normal. Because we’re in a pandemic and our employers seem to have forgotten we’re in a pandemic when they set their 2021 goals. Because we’re in a pandemic and Black people are still getting murdered by the police … Continue reading “April, 2021”

I’m playing this game on my phone called Clusterduck where you try to get ducks to lay eggs to make other ducks. And it got me thinking about cognitive load. Cognitive load refers to the amount of working memory your brain needs to use to do whatever it’s doing.  In UX, we often refer to … Continue reading “Cognitive load explained using ducks”