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Gregg Bernstein (he/him)

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⚙️ Research + writing 📘 Author of Research Practice ✏️ Sharing infrequently at gregg.io ↗ A work in progress 🤷🏻 shoulditalktoahuman.com

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Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io · 30/09/2026
It took some digging, but I found opportunities here www.aarp.org/volunteer/vi... They also have an ElderWatch Helpline that I am looking to join!
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Find a variety of community service and volunteer positions that you can do from the convenience and comfort of your own home.
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Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io · 30/09/2026
As tech support for my parents, we’ve had close calls with scams. I’m excited to begin volunteering as an AARP Digital Fraud Fighter, sharing resources and warnings with older adults. www.aarp.org/lp/fraud-narrative-cha…
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Connie Chen 陳穎慈 @conniechiiiwa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Apologies for repeatedly reposting this. Feel free to mute this post. I know many like myself are in a tough spot financially right now. I’m embarrassed to keep reposting, but I’m really struggling. If you can help, this would be a tremendous relief. I’d really appreciate it. Thank you.💛
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Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io · 22/09/2026
Research impact is a trap. Instead of trying to prove your worth, get your colleagues to document how your research supports their decisions. gregg.io/brace-for-impact
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Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io · 21/09/2026
UX people of ATL, join me at the Learner’s Research Roundtable on January 20! I’ll be hosting with Chelsey Kamson and Reggie Murphy. Sign up: www.joinlearners.com/events/researc…
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Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io · 19/09/2026
You had me at Jawbox.
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Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io · 08/09/2026
The perfect UX research repo (alive, connected to all relevant data, with strong governance) always eluded me… until now. I wrote about how I found a good use case for AI: gregg.io/repo-dreams
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This is how to speak to every single one of those sycophants.
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Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io · 06/07/2026
I worked *lights and sound* in HS theater and feel the same.
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Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io · 10/06/2026
Oh man I designed stuff for Braid (and saw most of these bands)! www.discogs.com/artist/14552...
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Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io · 07/05/2026
So batshit I immediately ordered one!
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Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io · 14/04/2026
Steady Diet of Burritos
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Medium @medium.com · 13/04/2026
A friendly reminder, in case you're curious about our publishing standards.
The text "Where hate has no platform." appears in a serif typeface above a magenta-colored, textured illustration of two hands shaking over a book. The image has the subtle impression of text from the other side of the page. In the bottom left is the Medium wordmark.
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Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io · 13/04/2026
A transit map shows how to get from A to B. Assuming I want to go from A (has-questions-ville) to B (needs-participants-burgh), this visualization doesn't surface what I'm looking for in a way I'd expect.
A screenshot of the User Interviews map of research tools. The map is not very easy to understand or use.
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Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io · 11/03/2026
This is great news for user researchers. The orgs that buy this service will end up in the same undifferentiated place, while researchers will continue to spot the habits and trends that indicate real opportunity.
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💀spooky eunuch™🕸️ @dommedeluise.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
ah the famous fable, the tortoise and the hare, about a genius hare that easily outmatches the naive hopeless tortoise.
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Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io · 05/02/2026
bsky.app/profile/greg...
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
All of this happened with basically no help from elected officials of the opposition party. This was entirely the people.
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Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io · 26/01/2026
@johnhollinger.bsky.social there was a Hawks game years ago where weather severely impacted attendance. There was a story that the crowd was so sparse you could clearly hear someone courtside yell, "We got next!" Was that your story?
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Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io · 16/01/2026
Design is the rendering of intent. A slick gov website that serves no one, shares misinformation, and is not accessible is not a user experience. It's propaganda and UX cosplay. www.fastcompany.com/91458973/chi...
A quote from a Fast Company story about Joe Gebbia: 
"Gebbia says his unwillingness to engage in the politics of design is in service of design itself. “I think that at the end of the day, our focus is just [to] make the best user experience,” he says."
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Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io · 28/12/2025
Oh, you weren't kidding. No thank you for sending me on a journey that resulted in watching… whatever this is.
A scene from an AI-generated video of an older gentleman in a suit and fedora performing music in a club backed by a band of instrument-playing robots.
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Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io · 06/12/2025
I really love the positioning of automation as insulation—thank you!
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Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io · 01/12/2025
User researchers already document findings at a faster velocity than orgs can act on them. It strains credulity that tech leaders are clamoring for even more yet worse AI-generated findings. My new blog post, "The only winning move is not to play." gregg.io/the-only-win...
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The only winning move is not to play – Gregg Bernstein
Let’s not debase ourselves as user researchers further
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Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io · 01/12/2025
New from my blog: The only winning move is not to play gregg.io/the-only-winning-move "Let’s not debase ourselves as user researchers further"
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Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io · 06/11/2025
By this point creators know who they are aligning with by using that platform and they either don't care or are complicit.
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Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io · 24/10/2025
Fugazi is never the wrong answer. open.spotify.com/track/6p7f0M...
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Life And Limb
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Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io · 21/10/2025
Maybe I'm out of step, but I don't think it's great when most of the sponsors of a major user research conference are selling products that replace user researchers with AI.
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Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io · 17/10/2025
LOL nope!
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Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io · 17/10/2025
Whoa I grew up there! My parents still live there! 🤯
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Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io · 08/09/2025
“Try [name of pet + kids birthdays].” Wait what happened to the password manager I set up for you last year? “Oh yeah. I don’t use it.” I get it. Password managers and biometrics and 2FA are friction, even for those who understand the need. For aging adults I think it’s perhaps unreasonable.
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Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io · 08/09/2025
“I don’t have a password - it’s my thumb” is a phrase I hear way too often when I try to help my parents with their accounts. Biometric login adds such a degree of difficulty in assisting aging adults, especially from afar.
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Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io · 07/09/2025
Same here
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Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io · 28/08/2025
I don't want to be recorded by facial recognition glasses. I also don't want people to think I'm recording them because I wear Ray-Bans that look like the Meta privacy nightmare specs. About time for new frames. 👓
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Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io · 28/08/2025
Tied with @tedleo.bsky.social with only a drum machine at Brownies NYC. Tour de force.
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Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io · 28/08/2025
Mike Watt being backed up by Eddie Vedder, Dave Grohl, and Pat Smear.
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Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io · 25/08/2025
The tight kerning made me read this as "modem software," and tbh that's probably a best case scenario.
A picture of text on americabydesign.gov that says "To update today's government to be an Apple Store like experience: beautifully designed, great user experience, run on modern software."
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Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io · 13/08/2025
Putting aside for a moment that the entire notion of user research is predicated on studying humans being, the doorknob phenomenon is very real, highly illuminating, and *impossible for any AI to replicate.*
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Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io · 12/08/2025
Bad Religion’s 1992 song “Generator” is an early warning of AI’s rise to ubiquity, with prescient lyrics about text and photographs being subsumed under a generative layer. In this essay I will-
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Every Silicon Valley innovation in the consumer space has been "what if this software was my mom" which explains why ChatGPT's primary use is as a therapist, relationship substitute for lonely boys, and "personal operating system" to organize their life
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Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io · 03/08/2025
Eyes Wide Shut. Packed opening night in NYC. Masked party scene. “May I have the password, please?” Audience member immediately yells “BULLSHIT” and the whole place explodes with laughter.
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Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io · 15/07/2025
There are ~17k Starbucks stores in US (which is 2x the number of coworking spaces). Really want to improve "collaboration, problem-solving, and culture-building?" I can think of 17k places where this will be way more impactful than an office.
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Mary Baum @marybaum.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I am serious about supporting local journalism. If you want to report the stories, I will get you set up technically. And I will keep you online. HMU. PS>Any hosting partners wanna step up? How about one shared account for the first three new local publications? (Traffic will be small at first)
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Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io · 24/06/2025
New from my blog: In praise of redundant publishing practices gregg.io/in-praise-of-redundancy "Publish for both your audience and your future self"
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Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io · 24/06/2025
New from my blog: How I write gregg.io/how-I-write "A brief reintroduction"
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Coty @coty.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
I don’t know that anyone following me needs this reminder today, but just in case, turn off biometric authentication and switch to password on your phone if you think you could be arrested. You cannot be compelled to give a password, but biometrics are treated differently.
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Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io · 13/06/2025
That happened to me the following year at Tiny Giant, where there was also no WiFi.
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Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io · 13/06/2025
🤦
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Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io · 13/06/2025
Oh hey I spoke at Giant 2014 too! 👋
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Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io · 09/06/2025
Sí, se puede
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