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UX Collective

This post is your memory

We cognitively interweave with digital objects in complex ways. How can designers design for this phenomena?

Jun 23, 2021

An image of bookmark listing from Netscape Navigator

Jun 23, 2021

Vikram Singh

Google Maps sucks (you out of thought)

What Heidegger can teach us about how to make Google maps — and all tech — better.

Apr 3, 2021

Google Maps sucks (you out of thought)

Apr 3, 2021

Vikram Singh
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The Startup

Interviewing an expert on why understanding affordances is vital for design

What are affordances? Why are they so important? Technology theorist Jenny L. Davis explains.

Jan 1, 2021

The cover of the “How artifacts afford” book

Jan 1, 2021

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The Startup

UX & Design Must Move Beyond ‘Needs Solving’ to Making Systems Legible

UX isn’t about why we do things so much as allowing us to doing things easily. This must change.

Nov 15, 2020

The cover of Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher

Nov 15, 2020

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UX Collective

COVID + drunk park-goers = a great example of how systems thinking can help technologists

Tech often fails because we don’t consider the wider context that it exists in. Here’s a great example of how systems thinking can help.

Jul 17, 2020

A photograph of London Fields with many people in it.

Jul 17, 2020

Vikram Singh
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The Startup

The Post-Covid March to Remote Worker Surveillance

As offices go remote, nervous employers push surveillance software on employees, but at what cost?

Jun 6, 2020

The Post-Covid March to Remote Worker Surveillance

Jun 6, 2020

Vikram Singh

Facebook is already an arbiter of truth — it even creates truth

Sorry Zuck, Facebook doesn’t just arbitrate truth, it creates truth through its mediating qualities.

Jun 2, 2020

Facebook is already an arbiter of truth — it even creates truth

Jun 2, 2020

Vikram Singh
in
The Startup

Perceiving and acting are forms of thought — product design needs to recognise this

Perception and action are intertwined in an act of cognition. The same is true of all objects & tools we interact with.

Feb 22, 2020

Perceiving and acting are forms of thought — product design needs to recognise this

Feb 22, 2020

Vikram Singh

The 2020s will be a reckoning with our past: lessons from Disco Elysium

The world is endable. It may be ending now.

Dec 31, 2019

The 2020s will be a reckoning with our past: lessons from Disco Elysium

Dec 31, 2019

Vikram Singh

The False Tech Gods Will Not Offer Us Transcendence

This narrative of ‘transcendence’ is written into our lives. But it’s a false one, especially when it comes to technology.

Oct 30, 2019

The False Tech Gods Will Not Offer Us Transcendence

Oct 30, 2019

Vikram Singh

Vikram Singh

Head of Design @lightful. MSc in HCI Writes about UX, Philosophy of tech, Media, Cognition, et cetera. https://disassemble.substack.com/ for deeper takes.

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