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Amanda Jene ★ UX Designer @designxdisc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

New case study: a 10-inch infotainment UI for a fictional luxury automaker (academic project). Covers the design process, a custom design system, and what a two-person usability test revealed. amandajene.com/portfolio/he...

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Infotainment System for Helios Vehicles

Touchscreen infotainment system for luxury vehicles integrating key features while minimizing distractions for safe driving.

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Amanda Jene ★ UX Designer @designxdisc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“when your morality only exists when it costs you nothing, then how much is your morality really worth?” - a.j.spitz (insta)

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Amanda Jene ★ UX Designer @designxdisc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Why are AI models not being programmed to avoid frightening potentials? Are there no think tanks or ethicists involved in their development? They could be built in a way that prioritizes law, ethics, morality, etc. yet instead all we get is yes-men & hallucinations

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Amanda Jene ★ UX Designer @designxdisc.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Today I used the Amazon app to try and search for products that help radial tunnel syndrome. Instead of search results, I was given an AI response for what RTS is. This idiotic nonsensical feature is frustratingly annoying in the Instagram app, and even more so in the Amazon app.

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Amanda Jene ★ UX Designer @designxdisc.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Word of the day: illustrative. The contrasting media treatment of protest movements serves as an illustrative example of how legitimacy is constructed through selective framing rather than formal criteria.

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Amanda Jene ★ UX Designer @designxdisc.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

"Withdrawing from the World Health Organization is scientifically reckless. It fails to acknowledge the fundamental natural history of infectious diseases. Global cooperation is not a luxury; it is a biological necessity.” abcnews.go.com/Health/us-of...

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US officially exits World Health Organization, accusing agency of straying 'from its core mission'

The U.S. has officially completed its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, HHS and the Department of State announced on Thursday.

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Amanda Jene ★ UX Designer @designxdisc.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

The idea that you can hire a wealthy elitist who has spent his entire life swindling and cheating people (fraud, wages owed, fake degrees, bankrupting businesses, etc) — And not expect him to continue to swindle and cheat in the job you put him in… Well, it’s certainly not based on logic, is it?

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Amanda Jene ★ UX Designer @designxdisc.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I’ve seen too many TikTok accounts like this - obviously fake AI generated spam claiming some tragedy and needing money via sales. (And immediately block them.) The fact this company is being funded by Andreessen Horowitz is deeply disappointing.

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Amanda Jene ★ UX Designer @designxdisc.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

“President Joe Biden ended the practice of detaining children with their families in 2021, but Trump recently reversed that policy and resumed operations.” “…it’s like, how can we make people as miserable as possible in these facilities so that they just say, ‘Screw it, I want to leave.’”

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ICE Data Reveals What Happened to 1,600 People Arrested During Chicago’s Blitz

Most of those arrested were swiftly shuttled to a sprawling array of detention centers in 13 states, many with reports of troubling conditions.

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Amanda Jene ★ UX Designer @designxdisc.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

RIP Professor Loureiro - known for his research on how plasma works, particularly the physics underpinning astronomical phenomena. He was studying how to harness fusion power to combat climate change. He leaves behind a wife and three children.

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An MIT professor was fatally shot at his home and police launched a homicide investigation

A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was fatally shot at his home near Boston, and authorities said Tuesday they had launched a homicide investigation.

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Amanda Jene ★ UX Designer @designxdisc.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Epstein Files votes MAGA Civil War Cloudfare Outage Cop Shoots Dog UN Security Council vote The sad state of Gaza Israel settler violence Palestinians sent to South Africa

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Nick Fuentes JD Vance Scandal Got Worse & House Votes To Release Epstein Files, BUT There's a Catch

YouTube video by Philip DeFranco

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Amanda Jene ★ UX Designer @designxdisc.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

“there's a reason it's taboo, and the weakening of that taboo is really obviously destructive in a lot of really obvious ways. I do not like where we are headed here...”

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Slavery was Racist

YouTube video by Hank Green

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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Release the files.

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Amanda Jene ★ UX Designer @designxdisc.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

The irony of conservatism is letting fear drive you backwards into a trap of your own making, instead of progressing forward.

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Amanda Jene ★ UX Designer @designxdisc.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Holy fkn shit. “Buried in the legislative branch spending measure is a sweeping legal shield that would allow senators to sue the government… The measure appears tailored to directly benefit eight Republican senators…”

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Important Evening News Update

Pressure grows on Schumer to step aside as Democratic leader, Indivisible launches massive primary campaign against institutional Democrats, and Senate will vote to reopen government tonight

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Amanda Jene ★ UX Designer @designxdisc.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

“You should not grant any form of clemency to this convicted and unrepentant sex offender. … It is indisputable that the order to treat Ms. Maxwell as an honored guest, rather than a federal prisoner, has come from the highest levels.”

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Ghislaine Maxwell plans to seek commutation from Trump, whistleblower says

Documents provided by a whistleblower show Ghislaine Maxwell has asked President Trump to commute her sentence as prison employees suggest she has received “concierge-style treatment” at a new facilit...

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Amanda Jene ★ UX Designer @designxdisc.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Startalk: what loneliness does to your brain. Feat. Ben Rein. Animals (including humans) are biologically wired for the social levels they live in best.

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What Loneliness Does To Your Brain with Ben Rein

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Amanda Jene ★ UX Designer @designxdisc.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Third-party seller on SHEIN sold blatantly obvious child s*x dolls. France took action, threatening to block the entire site if they weren’t removed. Hopefully investigations find and punish the seller(s). SHEIN will surely be held accountable for allowing those products on their platform.

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Shein Removes Childlike Sex Dolls After French Watchdog Complaint

France's consumer protection agency DGCCRF reported fast-fashion retailer Shein to prosecutors for selling sex dolls with childlike appearances, stating the items' descriptions made it difficult to do...

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Amanda Jene ★ UX Designer @designxdisc.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

In response to “How does Elon Musk affect your daily life?” Let us count the ways: 🔻Twitter/X – a megaphone for hate speech and disinformation. 🔻EPA – less oversight, more pollution, sicker communities. 🔻NOAA – weaker forecasts, fewer warnings, more dead neighbors.

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Amanda Jene ★ UX Designer @designxdisc.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

The movie Hero is breathtakingly beautiful, but it’s also a Trojan horse for nationalist/fascist messaging. youtu.be/M8LXMRZZLT4?...

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How to Write F*scist Propaganda

YouTube video by schnee

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Amanda Jene ★ UX Designer @designxdisc.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Greed is a curse of insatiable hunger. Whether for power, or money, their thirst will never be quenched.

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Amanda Jene ★ UX Designer @designxdisc.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

For those of us in Texas who want to make informed decisions when it comes to the 2025 special election, here’s a plain-language run down of the 17 proposed amendments. open.substack.com/pub/xojene/p...

Substack article: Texas 2025 Election Props Explained

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Amanda Jene ★ UX Designer @designxdisc.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Any fellow artists or designers deal with severe carpal tunnel? Waiting to have a nerve test done.

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Revolution Underground @americanprodigy.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

The picture is AI, the statement is FACT

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Amanda Jene ★ UX Designer @designxdisc.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Early voting in Texas is going on now thru Nov. 4th: www.sos.texas.gov/elections/la... Vote NO on Prop 12 - which would give more power to the corrupt Governor Abbott.

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Amanda Jene ★ UX Designer @designxdisc.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Revisit: Glass House farm - a legal cannabis grower (they also grow tomatoes and cucumbers). Out of 360 people arrested, 14 were minors (ages 14-17). Fed and state laws allow ages 12+ to work on farms/in agriculture, BUT you must be 21 to work in the cannabis industry.

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Ventura County cannabis farm ICE raids: Glass House Brands issues 1st public statement

Glass House Brands on Monday issued its first public statement detailing the July 10 ICE raids at its facilities in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, where over 360 people were arrested and one work...

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Amanda Jene ★ UX Designer @designxdisc.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Not in the UK, but sharing because this is important. We should all be standing up for what’s right, not blindly bowing to bullies. Let’s be like Kim. Let’s make a difference.

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Amanda Jene ★ UX Designer @designxdisc.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Bad faith headlines and cherry-picked coverage are big reasons public trust wavers for legacy media. Thank you Mango Team for reporting on the Luigi Mangione trial. The way they paint a picture of everything - almost like docu-style reporting - adds valuable context you won’t find elsewhere.

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I Saw Luigi Mangione In Court, And This Is EVERYTHING He Did

YouTube video by Rotten Mango

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Majority of US gamers are women
By Andrew Barker, Editor at LinkedIn News

What image comes to mind when you read the word "gamer"? If you immediately pictured a young man white-knuckling a controller hours into a Fortnite session, you may need to update your priors. According to a 21-country survey by the Entertainment Software Association, women make up 52% of U.S. gamers, while 22% of gamers are over 65 years old. (Male gamers still outnumber women globally, but not by much.) Americans prize puzzle games above all other genres, the study found, and overwhelmingly prefer to play on mobile devices.

History of left-handedness chart showing an increase starting in the 1910s and stabilizing after 1970.

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Amanda Jene ★ UX Designer @designxdisc.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

19:29 "Naively, we have entrusted our democratic space to social media controlled by American entrepreneurs or Chinese corporations whose interests do not align with the survival of democracy" youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...

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French President Macron Speaks at German Unity Day Ceremony | WION LIVE

YouTube video by WION

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Amanda Jene ★ UX Designer @designxdisc.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Racial profiling, arresting citizens, zip tying children in the middle of the night - welcome to fascism, America. Is this the greatness you wanted?

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‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Amanda Jene ★ UX Designer @designxdisc.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Trust relies on consistency and predictability. That's why we research user mental models - to understand human expectations. Delivering what people expect makes us predictable (good). Doing so consistently, builds trust. Trust is everything.

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Amanda Jene ★ UX Designer @designxdisc.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Domestika/CGMA hasn’t been paying instructors, courses are being scrapped, and there’s no resolution team to contact. It’s widely speculated they’re shutting CGMA down. 80.lv/articles/exc...

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CGMA Might Be on the Verge of Shutting Down, Instructors Warn

Teachers are blaming CGMA's parent company Domestika for withholding payments and planning to close the school entirely.

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Amanda Jene ★ UX Designer @designxdisc.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I wish humans said what they meant and meant what they said. And at least attempted to use precise language, so as not to be misunderstood.

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Amanda Jene ★ UX Designer @designxdisc.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Someone turn off peepaw trump’s tv. He’s gettin scammed by Fox News!

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Amanda Jene ★ UX Designer @designxdisc.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

22 million from youtube 10 million from x 25 million from meta 16 million from paramount 15 million from abc/disney Trump is “sue-happy” and companies are on their knees. 00 integrity. Total capitulation. www.engadget.com/big-tech/alp...

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Alphabet will pay $22 million to settle President Trump’s YouTube lawsuit

Alphabet will pay $22 million to settle President Trump's suit against YouTube over his ban after January 6.

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Amanda Jene ★ UX Designer @designxdisc.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Net's Israel ensured the funding of Hamas to keep the Palestinian Authority weak and prevent a two-state solution. This was written in 2023. How is this info not wider-spread? www.thenation.com/article/worl...

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Why Netanyahu Bolstered Hamas

The Israeli prime minister followed a decades-old divide-and-rule strategy that fuels endless war.

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Amanda Jene ★ UX Designer @designxdisc.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

The disgraced UK doctor behind anti-vax and autism misinformation. Heartbreaking. He preyed on the vulnerable.

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The Global Story: The disgraced UK doctor behind autism misinformation

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Amanda Jene ★ UX Designer @designxdisc.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Jerry!! 😭 Where would this ex-vegan currently-non-dairy person be without your delicious ice cream? Ben & Jerry’s is iconic. My fave frozen dessert brand. With a non-dairy dessert line that has actual variety. Good on him for standing up for what he believes is right. 💜 Let us not be silenced.

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Jerry quits Ben & Jerry’s, saying its independence on social issues has been stifled

Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Jerry Greenfield is leaving the ice cream brand after 47 years, saying that the independence it once had to speak up on social issues has been stifled by parent company Unilev...

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Amanda Jene ★ UX Designer @designxdisc.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Long video, but worth the watch. As someone raised super religious, the idea that humans are “inherently bad” was drilled into me from an early age. Ppl talked as if we had to fight against some default evil baked into our very being. But that was one message I could never buy into.

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The neuroscience of extremes: Ruthless psychopathy to extraordinary generosity | Abigail Marsh

YouTube video by Big Think

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Amanda Jene ★ UX Designer @designxdisc.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Ever taken the HEXACO personality test? My top traits came out as: – Conscientiousness (90%) – Honesty-Humility (85%) – Openness + Emotionality (both 75%) No wonder I ended up in UX/UI design. Organization + creativity + sincerity + empathy = me, obviously. lol

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