User Defencers: We Are Not Our Users with Nikkel Blaase

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User Defenders podcast is a UX podcast and UX design podcast with inspiring UX Designers talking about UX, UX Design, User Experience, Product Design, Web Design, UI, User Testing, Personal Growth, Psychology and much more!

Nikkel Blaase reminds us that we are not our users. He encourages us to make time for deep thinking. He teaches us that without failing, there’s no learning. He guides us to not spend too much time figuring out a solution if we don’t know what the problem is. He shows us how creating value for our users creates value for our business. He also motivates us to never stop learning, practice as often as we can…and stay curious. Nikkel Blaase (Deep Thought) is a product and interaction designer from Hamburg, Germany currently working at XING. He’s the founder of “Design Made For You” studio. He’s a fantastic writer who’s published viral articles on Medium, FastCoDesign…from userdefenders.com

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  Author here. This site lets you put in a username and get the users with the most similar writing style to that user. It confirmed several users who I suspected were alts and after informally asking around has identified abandoned accounts of people I know from many years ago. I made this site mostly to show how easy this is and how it can erode online privacy. If some guy with a little bit of Python, and $8 to rent a decent dedicated server for a day can make this, imagine what a company with millions of dollars and a couple dozen PhD linguists could do. Here's Paul Graham:…

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  Don't code your UI, draw it2018 · github.com · ▲302

  "Don't code your UI, Draw it !". Contribute to karanchahal/DoodleMaster development by creating an account on GitHub.

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  User Defenders: Design For Real Life2016 · ▲54

  Remain human in a robotic world and design with compassion.

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  User Defenders - Looking Down The Road with Aarron Walter2016 · userdefenders.com · ▲52

  Designers need to feel a little bit more pain.

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  What is Wrong With UX - Stop Saying Users Don't Know What They Want2016 · usersknow.com · ▲62

  Stop ignoring research b/c "users don't know what they want"

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  The Design Review — Ep. 40 The Myth of the Power User2016 · designreviewpodcast.com · ▲57

  Who exactly are these "power users"?

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  Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi▲319

  Endless lofi beats composed live in your browser, over pixel-art nights in Paris, Tokyo, New York, Hong Kong, Sydney, San Francisco and more. Free, no sign-up.

  Work · 30d ago · loficities.com

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  Smooth Recorder▲257

  Mac screen recordings that look edited when you hit stop

  Work · 24d ago · smoothrecorder.com

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  Badgey▲226

  Your iPhone becomes a name badge that faces the room

  Work · 19d ago · apps.marcoluthi.com

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  Figma Specs▲225

  A container for your context that lives on the Figma canvas

  Work · 9d ago · figma.com

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  The rarest tech books and docs you've probably never read▲190

  Work · 18d ago · readrare.com

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  Notion 1.0 Web + Mac App▲1,015

  Docs, wikis, tasks – a minimal & unified workspace for teams

  Work · 2016 · notion.so

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  Pricing Pages▲837

  Curated directory of the best pricing pages

  Work · 2016 · pages.xyz

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  HTML Email▲783

  Responsive HTML email templates for startups & developers

  Growth · 2016 · htmlemail.io

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  Google Duo▲688

  One-to-one video calling. Google's FaceTime competitor.

  Work · 2016 · accounts.google.com

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  Boomerang Respondable▲687

  Write perfect emails with Artificial Intelligence

  AI · 2016 · boomeranggmail.com