Leading UX research @Mendix. Previously @BBC @British_Airways. 🧑🎓 @UoY_CS. Views expressed are your employer's. @mansha@mastodon.social
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No. Board structure/governance much discussed when Trust abolished - Tories wanted unitary board because “like private sector.” Wholly unsuitable for BBC but mine was a minority view. 1/2
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A supervisory board which is remote from day to day editorial and appointments but strategic and can act as conduit to political discussions much more appropriate .
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2 Feb 2023
In other words, Netfix used #AdversarialInteroperability (AKA #CompetitiveCompatibility or #ComCom) to launch its business:
eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/ad…
Today, Netflix is on the vanguard of the war to
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2 Feb 2023
They helped lead the charge to pervert @W3C web-#standards, creating a DRM video standard called #EME that made it a crime to build a full-featured browser without getting permission from media companies and restricting its functionality:
blog.samuelmaddock.com/posts… 57/
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31 Dec 2022
If your furry, feathered or scaly friends find fireworks a bit distressing, we've got the perfect tonic.
Join Katie @Breathwick on Classic FM for music to calm your pets this New Year's Eve. 🎶
Classic FM's #PetClassics | 7-10pm on New Year's Eve | Listen on @GlobalPlayer.
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This tells you everything you need to know about how Conservative governments hamstring public service innovation to claim that the private sector does it better.
ALT Screenshot from the linked article describing how iPlayer was considered a pioneer when it launched 2007, with even Netflix crediting it.
15 Dec 2022
Funding cuts mean BBC can’t compete with Netflix, says watchdog | BBC | The Guardian theguardian.com/media/2022/d…
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6 Feb 2022
AI generated text here sounds exactly like SEO stuffing for landing pages. GOSH I WONDER WHY?
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2 Nov 2022
Years ago, before verified accounts were a thing, back when I was on Eastenders, I was contacted multiple times by parents of children who had been “conversing” with me online. 11-15 year old children that had been talking with a fake me.
I was informed one of these children-
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26 Oct 2022
For the love of all things good, I wish people would stop equating ‘data’ with numbers.
This results in the opinion that qual research = namby-pamby chats; but quant research = Real Objective Data-backed Facts that are Concrete, Accurate and Never Lie™️
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26 Oct 2022
As anyone with research experience would tell you: either could be an oracle or the absolute Wild West.
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22 Oct 2022
Did you know about Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund? sovereigntechfund.de/en.html
It's finally doing something about the problem illustrated in this xkcd: so much of our digital infrastructure is reliant on open source tools that are only kept going through good will.
ALT xkcd cartoon showing stacks of bricks of various sizes balanced delicately on top of each other, labelled "All modern digital infrastructure". There is one small piece at the bottom that, if removed, would cause the whole stack to collapse. This brick is labelled "A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003".
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14 Oct 2022
Is Axure still a thing? It was my go-to prototyping tool nearly a decade ago and had all this functionality.
14 Oct 2022
Dear prototyping folks,
Figma can't do the prototyping fidelity I need (text inputs, if-this-then-that logic, storing variables)
Give me your highly opinionated takes:
Origami? Protopie? Framer?
I know I could just React... but I still want the thing between Figma / React
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30 Mar 2022
How can you decide on a role or career without knowing what the day-to-day work looks like? I analysed what an average week in my role as a Principal UX Researcher looks like lisakoeman.nl/blog/calendar-…
ALT Overview of calendar week showing which activities relate to evaluative research, and which activities relate to generative research (a more of less 50/50 split)
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27 Sep 2022
A long time ago, I promised to write a long review of the Arc browser by @browsercompany.
It's long overdue, but here's my take on Arc, and why you probably shouldn't be too excited about it.
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28 Sep 2022
This language also does not imply end to end encryption. “Your data is your data” until we decide that it isn’t. #arcbrowser
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Create an account before you can even start using a web browser? No, thanks. #ArcBrowser