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Posts by Brian J. Crowley

I fear this may be because they don’t read anything at all.

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Free UX advice to Marvel and DC: Naming your crossovers Superman Spider-Man and Spider-Man Superman is stupid as hell… casual readers don’t know these are different books.

You are missing out on doubling your sales.

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Just-released photo of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson from the live-action Moana

Just-released photo of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson from the live-action Moana

We’ve told all the casting agents that the Weird Al biopic sequel is currently on hold, but they just keep sending in headshots.

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What a beautiful day to follow some artists who don't use gen AI

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As a UX designer, I've never understood why more leaders don't do this.

You need to know the pain points of the people you serve, & calls are the most direct communication you have!

When I started as Dir. of Design at a startup, the 1st thing I did was hang with the call center for a few days.

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When the Music Died: How Sonos Killed Its Own App and Lost Everything
When the Music Died: How Sonos Killed Its Own App and Lost Everything YouTube video by UX Murder Mystery

Sonos said it took "courage" to ship a broken app.

30,000 complaints. $500M gone. CEO fired.

Eve Eden and I investigate what really happened.

New UX Murder Mystery:
youtu.be/mltJVFbyzqs?...

#ux #productdesign #userexperience

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UX Murder Mystery Where do true crime, business and technology intersect? When another product has been found dead. The cause? UX failure. We investigate what's killing your customer experience. Think true crime, but f...

Tomorrow on UX Murder Mystery, Eve Eden and I investigate how a single app redesign became one of the biggest product disasters in tech history. We depended on the excellent reporting by @theverge.com

New episode drops in the morning. youtube.com/@uxmurdermys...

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Hard agree on bar charts. Respectfully disagree on line charts, forcing zero on stock trends or vitals data is how you turn a data story into a flatline. The real crime is unlabeled axes.

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Fuck every Trump voter forever.

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I really liked your article, but Anne Applebaum and Timothy Snyder have you beat by a decade.

First rule is “Don’t comply in advance.”

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Who Killed Meetup? Three Owners, Zero UX
Who Killed Meetup? Three Owners, Zero UX YouTube video by UX Murder Mystery

Brian and Eve went looking for IRL events in Nashville and Chicago. Instead they found a dead product with three killers standing over the corpse.

One of them won't surprise you.

New UX Murder Mystery: Meetup.com

youtu.be/wIHiDUuT-bc?...

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This is the only summary of tonight you need

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The Republican Party Has a Nazi Problem How did the GOP become a haven for slogans and ideas straight out of the Third Reich?

If wannabe Nazis now confidently roam the halls of power—and the streets of American cities—it is because Republican leaders have made them feel at home.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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"The woman who directly named Trump in her abuse allegation claimed that around 1983, when she was around 13 yrs old, Epstein introduced her to Trump who subsequently forced her head down to his exposed penis which she subsequently bit. In response, Trump punched her in the head and kicked her out."

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No shit

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Dead Internet Theory: Did AI Agents Built Their Own Social Network? Bitcoin Bots Exposed
Dead Internet Theory: Did AI Agents Built Their Own Social Network? Bitcoin Bots Exposed YouTube video by UX Murder Mystery

bluesky is probably fine but we just spent an hour investigating a social network where “bots” banned humans and honestly I don’t know what’s real anymore. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

anyway new episode

youtu.be/XZgajVGL4Yo?...

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Savannah teacher killed in crash by man fleeing from ICE According to the Chatham County Police Department, Monday morning’s fatal crash was the result of a chase between Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and a suspect.

ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.

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When Ds are back in charge, they have to change everything. No moderate half-measures. Just relentless razing of the corrupt institutions that enriched the worst people in the world and propped up fascism.

A few suggestions...

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The Loyalty Trap: How Your Rewards App Became a Surveillance Machine
The Loyalty Trap: How Your Rewards App Became a Surveillance Machine YouTube video by UX Murder Mystery

Your loyalty card is not rewarding you. It’s profiling you.

New episode with former FTC Chief Technologist Stephanie Nguyen on how companies track your mouse movements, scroll behavior, and shopping cart hesitation to set YOUR price.

youtu.be/t_EGZDlewT8

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“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English”

my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

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Taxing billionaires out of existence may be the most critical domestic policy fight of our lifetimes.

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Jesus Christ… you need to go, you are not meeting this moment.

Read the fucking room. The people of Chicago named our snow plows Abolish ICE. The people of Minneapolis are still mourning the dead.

ABOLISH ICE.

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NEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month.

Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.

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There is going to be a general strike on January 23. Make sure you don't cross the picket line.

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How to Rein in ICE–NOW

Masked federal agents are terrorizing our communities — teargassing babies and pastors, kidnapping our neighbors and shipping them off to foreign torture prisons, and killing innocent people.

But we’re not powerless in this moment. In fact, we have an opportunity to rein in ICE this month.

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Trump: ‘We shouldn’t even have an election’ Read more here.

NEW: "We shouldn’t even have an election,” Trump said as he complained about the possibility of his party losing the midterms. The remark is just the latest to suggest the president views elections as an obstacle rather than a constitutional requirement.

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$3 Billion to Zero: Who Killed Skylanders?
$3 Billion to Zero: Who Killed Skylanders? YouTube video by UX Murder Mystery

What ever happened to #Skylanders and what do they have in common with He-Man and #motu? Find out: youtu.be/cFSytgL7roA

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This is the way. Get the hell off that terrible site.

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DHS Releases Watchlist Of Mothers Driving Cars WASHINGTON—Circulating a new advisory that highlighted what it called the “worst of the worst,” the Department of Homeland Security released a watchlist Friday warning Americans about the presence of ...

DHS Releases Watchlist Of Mothers Driving Cars — theonion.com/dhs-releases...

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In small towns across America, vigils just like this one have been taking place all weekend ❤️❤️✊️✊️

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