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Just a reminder that Nickelodeon’s Do Not Touch Button was designed by two little girls at UMD who were furious at a designer patronizing them. I was there. https://apps.apple.com/us/story/id1446343695 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@Jenny0wens Sure…. I think you interacted with her last year in class 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@katiereidwrites I think on a vintage typewriter zoomed up. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@Jenny0wens And you’re alumni! 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@anthonydpaul @idfive Omg, @idfive! good idea and our neighbor 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

Any #UX people focusing on #highered ? I have a doctoral student who is interested in learning more about it and possibly shadowing. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@Affirm Hey, I’ve been getting verification codes and phone calls from you today but I’m not your customer. What’s going on? 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

The scooters available in Baltimore all sound like 2nd tier Autobots: Boost, Spin, Jump 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

Wow. Lisa from card services will not let up. 🔄 1 👍 0 Original URL

RT @ShsDean: https://hbr.org/2019/10/why-skills-training-cant-replace-higher-education 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@ellenLupton What kind of tile they were using. I’m envisioning a 2001-esque walk-in shower. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@kkapp You look different in that picture. New beard? 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@ianpowerOMG No. Yes 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

I found this directory at school. It could not be any more wrong. None of these offices are here and some don’t exist anymore. https://t.co/mEM1ofXfOS 🔄 0 👍 4 Original URL

RT @IDC_ACM: Did somebody say IDC?… The #IDC2020 CfPs are out! The theme this year is Designing for the Future https://idc.acm.org/2020/call-for-papers/ 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

RT @aschrock: My students often ask me what skills will help them in a job setting. Sometimes I tell them “get really good at spreadsheet… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@jonbecker Yes. It’s self-support taken to an extreme. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@MPPVM @designskolenkd @idetudelft That looks like an awesome panel! 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@mikesbadtweets I think it’s called Funny You Should Ask. Besides Tiffany Haddish, the ad should say “Once Big Names, Tiffany Haddish, and the person that brought back Roseanne” 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

@ronbronson @veradrawer @DubberlyDesign @brownorama It’s amazingly relevant…I talk about it too 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

Our #ubux students have gotten so much more savvy. Presenting to a class client students 4yrs ago would have designed an app but now they’re thinking about redefining the client’s whole revenue stream and designing the app for that. 🔄 0 👍 7 Original URL

RT @therilesyouknow: If you really want to strike terror into the hearts of everyone this halloween, just go as a protected bike lane 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

First language: Logo Had difficulties: Objective-C Most used: JavaScript 4: Totally hate: FORTRAN 5: Most loved: Lingo 6: For beginners: Scratch https://twitter.com/_rnbrewer/status/1180822542010990592 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

Monday morning thought: National Treasure is a great movie. 🔄 0 👍 3 Original URL

@cylussec That’s a great idea. Where did you get so many cones? 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@audreywatters @maartenmeijer I wrote about this two years ago: https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-cpb-cuts-20170323-story.html 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

If you need a reviewer for #CHI2020, I’m in the system. 🔄 1 👍 4 Original URL

@baltimosmoe @ElectRyanDorsey @LeftistMehdi It would be interesting if we could lower “property” tax rate and create a bed tax rate that works out to be less for home owners but is applicable to tax exempt non-profits like Hopkins/UMMS . 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@bmoreconnected @ElectRyanDorsey We need a Baltimore Area Transit Authority that coordinates with MATA and WMATA to move people between the most populated areas. 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

The new @MDHistory museum exhibit Spectrum of Fashion features kiosks by me! The exhibit is fantastic and I’m proud to have had a small part in it. https://t.co/2Rqf6X62MY 🔄 0 👍 6 Original URL

While reading #UX twitter, I can’t help but worry for the UX Designers who think everyone else’s job is really their job but they don’t want to do production because it’s more about the ideas. 🔄 1 👍 1 Original URL

@MECM I renamed them Tenets because that sounds good, too and he was the best Doctor. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@melissa_schober @BaltimoreDPW Get your city council person there ASAP. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@MECM I think I’ll rename them Axioms! 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@melissa_schober We’re doing the same thing and from what I can tell, many parents are in the same place. It is upsetting to see the number of families who stayed in Baltimore to make a go of it consider giving up. I think about our probs then think about schools w/out heat and get mor depressed. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@mikesbadtweets Three’s a charm. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@mikesbadtweets Use the Hoopla app for Enoch Pratt. There is no waiting unlike the old tech which managed licenses and restricted the amount of downloads per book. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

RT @GioVincenti: Our @magicleap device is eagerly waiting for our students to come and keep working on #UBaltARGOS! Getting ready for #NASA… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@jeffbigham @aquigley I felt as though the #CHI2011 DC was transformative in many ways for my research and career. 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

@JanetRead Nope…our equivalent “best selling/cheap” was the Commodore 64 which had 2x the memory of the Acorn. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

I was telling my class on Monday that my first computer I bought cost $1000 in 1990 and I added a $300 CD-ROM drive later with money I saved working at a supermarket. They pointed out that’s about $2500 today. Spending that today gets you a pretty nice computer (but no cd-rom) 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@round I had to watch it twice to see if Mark from New Zealand was in the dark. 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

@jeffbigham @cfiesler No. All or nothing. I don’t have time for IRB amendments. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@jvitak My constant fear. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

I upgraded to #ios13 and lost the text magnifying feature you get when you hold down on a text input field. The documentation makes no reference to it while iOS12’s explicitly mentions it. 🙁 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Our round table discussion on Trust, Responsibility, Interaction Design, and Baltimore. #ixdd #ubalt #ubux https://t.co/fF7st4bcES 🔄 2 👍 11 Original URL

RT @odannyboy: You live, you learn you love, you learn You cry, you learn you lose, you learn You bleed, you learn you scream, you learn A… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

RT @EubieBee: “We really believe in the University of Baltimore and you all are the reasons that we do,” says Chris Spencer, dean of the Co… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

What a successful inaugural #ubal #ixdd! Thanks to @mindgrub & @ubartandscience IDIA program for sponsoring! 🔄 1 👍 4 Original URL

Skip the 0-25 class reunions. By then everyone’s happy to see you. #ixdd #ubalt 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

Confidentiality, integrity, and Accessibility are the UX equivalent of traditional security principles #ixdd #ubux 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

Design cliches prohibit us from understanding our users — Glenn White #ubalt #ixdd 🔄 1 👍 5 Original URL

#ubalt alumni Glenn White is keynoting our #IxDD talk #ubux https://t.co/hgnsoytEqu 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

I am all booked for #cscw2019 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

Today is #IxDD We’re going to have a great crowd tonight! You can still be part of it: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/world-interaction-design-day-baltimore-tickets-72381068725 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

I’m writing an essay about my kid and realize that some of their best personality traits comes directly from having been part of an intergenerational co-design group. Every kid should be able to co-design their world. Thank you for coming to my TED talk. 🔄 0 👍 7 Original URL

Greatest hits of boomers: Retiring at 55 Downsizing to 3700 sq ft Compare to Gen X who may never retire and still live in their 12ft wide row home they overpaid for. https://apple.news/A1-j2Y8tOS-ePFI_bJTWahA 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Cool…DRM for darts. https://apple.news/Azi6HMn-MSaKPXvOAGVMD4Q 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@ianpowerOMG I mean, you had to see that coming a mile away, right? 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@ianpowerOMG Because the fouls don’t count. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

My take on scooters as said by @xkcdComic https://xkcd.com/2188/ 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@ianpowerOMG They have the option but they still make ~$65k at the council job. You can work somewhere else. A good gig if you’re a lawyer or “entrepreneur” 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

@EvanMPeck You’re essentially messing with their motivation. They think the are visual learners so they are motivated when they are presented visual information. When they are presented with audio information, they turn off because, well, stuff. It’s a lot like Dumbo and the magic feather. 🔄 1 👍 1 Original URL

My suggestion has been separate out education from property tax and make that a separate fee. That way, that money can only be used for schools and not say, um, police brutality pay outs. https://twitter.com/StrongSchoolsMD/status/1176144952042110983 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@jyjault I think the world-changing companion product would be affordable home recycling where you could put all you waste plastic into a hopper and it melts and forms into filament. They exist but I haven’t seen them off the shelf…or affordable. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@FITC @mindgrub @zapizzabistro Now people who were on the fence of going to Baltimore or Toronto are going to have a hard time deciding #IxDD 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

@bmoreconnected @MileahKromer Is an adjective to describe chicken, no? 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Meanwhile over at LinkedIn, the new discussion: Is it better to be an employee or freelancer in a recession? 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Just in: free pizza from @mindgrub at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/world-interaction-design-day-baltimore-tickets-72381068725 Sign up now! #baltimore #IxDD 🔄 3 👍 4 Original URL

I think @IKEAUSA thinks we organize our magazines much more than we do. 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

@ianpowerOMG @keohaneja Ah Seattle… the home of college music …that’s why it’s so much cooler. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@keohaneja @ianpowerOMG I’m actually at the Orioles Marlin game 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@HamiltonHarpy This was a problem we had on East Baltimore street in Patterson park. The thoroughfare is Orleans or Boston but county drivers used all the other streets to speed 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@PigtownDesign np and McLean for two. I’m not sure of the other 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

Tonight’s fortune cookie and the thesis of my #chi2020 paper #pd #codesign https://t.co/hHCC4YLKdW 🔄 1 👍 6 Original URL

@syardi @jeffbigham @rogueCHI @emax @clifflampe In this paper, we posit that the Justice League could beat the Avengers and would not rely on time travel to solve their problems1 Excluding Superman 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@rogueCHI @syardi @jeffbigham @emax I never would have considered that. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@ianpowerOMG “Candidates” 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

3 children at my kids’ school were hit by cars last week through no fault of their own. All on Northern Parkway. Their injuries on our #baltimore city council members who put outsiders’ cars over our residents’ safety and access to safe roads. 🔄 7 👍 43 Original URL

@jeffbigham @emax @syardi But the chi2020 web site… https://t.co/ZB8NlASkOi 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

#chi2020 https://t.co/B0mPYcjfOx 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Congrats #CHI2020, you broke Overleaf. 🔄 0 👍 16 Original URL

@JoelChan86 Carl-space…. I found it accidentally 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Dear @apple, please don’t release awesome games the day before a giant deadline. 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

@JoelChan86 I meant Ctrl-SPACE 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@JoelChan86 When I found out about ctrl-enter to search through/choose from my BibTeX my head exploded. 🔄 0 👍 3 Original URL

OMG Overleaf, where have you been my whole academic life? #chi2020 🔄 0 👍 11 Original URL

I just saw a bakery delivery driver hand a person in need a loaf of bread. #Baltimore 🔄 0 👍 6 Original URL

It seems #transit is Baltimore’s biggest problem and Baltimore City has no authority of it. We need a Baltimore Transit Authority made up of City, county, and state. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

I’m at the Baltimore Neighborhood Indicator Alliance advisory board meeting. @bniajfi ‘s work on understanding Baltimore should be the city’s #1 resource for turning around our declines. 🔄 1 👍 9 Original URL

I didn’t know my kids’ generation had a name. The ‘Alphas’. https://www.wired.com/story/marketing-generation-alpha/ 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@eric_hontz @BawlmoreMerlin And #UBalt! We have a top 50 UX/HCI program right in the heart of downtown. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

Should we have a full draft of a #CHI2020 paper by now? Asking for a friend. 🔄 0 👍 4 Original URL

@keohaneja The sexism one was the most surprising but, as I keep saying to @bblodgett, at this point I should just assume everything is trying to keep the patriarchy in place. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@keohaneja https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/science-just-proved-that-open-plan-offices-destroy-productivity.html https://www.fastcompany.com/90170941/the-subtle-sexism-of-your-open-plan-office Tangent- look into ear phone use in those environments to not necessarily listen to music. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Is anyone in #Baltimore doing any studies on VO2 Max and/or lactate thresholds of (gulp) > 40yo men? 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Don’t forget that #wwixd is next Tuesday at #UBalt. We have a great line up of activities for the night! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/world-interaction-design-day-baltimore-tickets-72381068725 🔄 1 👍 0 Original URL

@MPPVM The Internet of Toys, huh? 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

RT @GioVincenti: Getting group projects ready for the semester. Should I use some reverse psychology and preface the assignment description… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

I’m pretty sure my dad had a digital watch in the late70’s/early 80’s that didn’t stay on. You had to press a button to show the time. I remember because I dissembled it in the mid 80’s. The awkward days of the Apple Watch are over - The Verge https://apple.news/ANRbBT3WYSVW6_OOk_sKA-w 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL