Victor Loux Bookmarks

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Tools for Remote UX Workshops

nngroup.com/articles/tools-remote-ux-workshops/
The type of workshop will dictate which tools your team should use. Ultimately, with limited time and budget, your best bet is to use a tool your team already knows how to use.

How to Make Yourself Into a Learning Machine - Superorganizers

superorganizers.substack.com/p/how-to-build-a-learning-machine
Shopify’s Director of Production Engineering explains how reading broadly helps him get to the bottom of things

Why the US Sucks at Building Public Transit - VICE

vice.com/en_us/article/884kvk/why-the-us-sucks-at-building-public-transit
America is worse at building and operating public transit than nearly all of its peers. Why is that? And what can we do to fix it?

Remove Video Background – Unscreen

unscreen.com/
Remove the background of any video - 100% automatically, online & free! Goodbye Greenscreen. Hello Unscreen.

Repl.it - CLUI: Building a Graphical Command Line

blog.repl.it/clui
> “Command line interfaces. Once that was all we had. Then they disappeared, replaced by what we thought was a great advance: GUIs. GUIs…

Do you have any question for me?

twitter.com/jadecarsonxo/status/1233801790086426626
Over time, I’ve come to love the question, “Do you have any questions for me?” after an interview. Here’s my list of my favorite questions to ask that have led to me getting the job:

Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet | WIRED

wired.com/story/wikipedia-online-encyclopedia-best-place-internet/
People used to think the crowdsourced encyclopedia represented all that was wrong with the web. Now it's a beacon of so much that's right.

The boss who put everyone on 70K - BBC News

bbc.com/news/stories-51332811
"I'm the same age as Mark Zuckerberg and I have dark moments where I think, 'I want to be just as rich as Mark Zuckerberg and I want to compete with him to be on the Forbes list. And I want to be on the cover of Time magazine, making lots of money.' All these greedy things are tempting."