Louis Rosenfeld @louisrosenfeld.com · 07/04/2025This would be a good time for someone in the Democratic party to point out that Republicans are always terrible for the economy. Hoover, Bush, Bush the 2nd, Trump... Not Ike, but he was the one with the 90% tax bracket. 260
Louis Rosenfeld @louisrosenfeld.com · 04/03/2025This Friday is Failure Friday! For Failure Friday #2, @hangxu.bsky.social will join us to come clean about the trials and tribulations of being a design recruiter in days like these. Bring your own failure stories to share; this *won't* be recorded. Free; register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...us02web.zoom.usWelcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Failure Friday #2: The Joys of Design Recruiting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.Hang is a former staff UX designer in the robotics space and now works as a design recruiter. In a brilliantly timed move, Hang founded Collective Supply two weeks before mass tech layoffs started in ... 041
Louis Rosenfeld @louisrosenfeld.com · 25/02/2025Coming up tomorrow (Wednesday, Feb 26), 4-5pm ET: free Rosenverse session with Daniel Gloyd: "Designing Warmth". Register here: rosenfeldmedia.com/sessions/des...rosenfeldmedia.comDesigning Warmth | Rosenfeld MediaIn order to thrive, we humans need to experience the interconnectedness between ourselves and the world around us. But despite unprecedented connectivity, the modern commercial, social, and educationa... 110
Louis Rosenfeld @louisrosenfeld.com · 17/02/2025...and this is happening Thursday, 11am-noon ET: "Getting started with accessibility research" with Elana Chapman (moderator), Annabel Weiner, Li Wen Huang, and Divyen Sanganee. Sponsored by the good folks at Fable; it's also free! rosenfeldmedia.com/sessions/get...rosenfeldmedia.comGetting started with accessibility research | Rosenfeld MediaIn partnership with Fable, join us for a panel discussion aimed at UX researchers on how to get started with accessibility research. Featuring industry experts from Discover, LEGO, and Ally Financial,... 031
Louis Rosenfeld @louisrosenfeld.com · 17/02/2025This is happening Wednesday, 11am-noon ET, and it's free: "Decarbonising User Journeys" with James Chudley. Register here: rosenfeldmedia.com/sessions/dec...rosenfeldmedia.comDecarbonising User Journeys | Rosenfeld MediaClimate UX feels like a new and emerging field but one that needs to mature quickly. Given the ever-growing evidence for climate change, why isn’t sustainability higher up on the agenda or missing fro... 030
Louis Rosenfeld @louisrosenfeld.com · 12/02/2025Are you a #UXresearch person employed by a US government agency? We've got some great news for you: rosenfeldmedia.com/advancing-re...rosenfeldmedia.comAnnouncing a special discount for U.S. government employees - Advancing Research 2025Given the pressure that employees of US federal government agencies are under—financial and otherwise—we are taking an important step to make Advancing Research 2025 more accessible for them. As of no... 031
Reposted by Louis RosenfeldRosenfeld Media @rosenfeldmedia.com · 14/01/2025Advancing Research 2025 is our sixth conference on #UXR, taking place on March 11-13. But why should you attend? Well, this year we're talking all about the future of the practice and our program reflects just that. rosenfeldmedia.com/advancing-re...rosenfeldmedia.comAdvancing Research 2025: A Conference for the Future of Research | Rosenfeld MediaExciting news for the research community! We've just unveiled the program for Advancing Research 2025, and it's set to be a game-changer. This year's conference takes a bold new approach to addressing... 152
Louis Rosenfeld @louisrosenfeld.com · 22/01/2025Tomorrow's free Rosenverse session: "A Human-Centered Design Approach to Cybersecurity" with Heidi Trost: 4-5pm ET Jan 23. Register here: rosenfeldmedia.com/sessions/to-... #cybersecurity #UX 020
Louis Rosenfeld @louisrosenfeld.com · 15/01/2025If you're looking for ideas and inspiration regarding how designers can build sustainability into their work, look no further. Join us for tomorrow's free Rosenverse session with Tristin Oldani: 11am-12pm ET, Thursday January 16. And bring a friend! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...us02web.zoom.usWelcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Turning awareness into action with Climate UX. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.Join us for a conversation with Tristin Oldani, UX strategist at Intel who is challenging how we think about digital sustainability. What happens when we truly understand the environmental impact of ... 040
Louis Rosenfeld @louisrosenfeld.com · 14/01/20252 free Rosenverse sessions this week: • Wed, 11am-12pm ET: Sentient Design, AI, and the Radically Adaptive Experience (@bigmediumjosh.bsky.social & @veronikakindred.bsky.social) • Thu, 11am-12pm ET: Turning awareness into action w/Climate UX (Tristin Oldani) rosenfeldmedia.com/all-sessions... 020
Louis Rosenfeld @louisrosenfeld.com · 09/01/2025Something actually positive for your feed: Rosa Chang's incredible work envisioning and actually creating what will be a 9-acre (!) park in lower Manhattan. She's kind of the anti-Robert Moses, and gives me hope. I interviewed her for the Rosenfeld Review: soundcloud.com/rosenfeld-me...soundcloud.comEnvisioning and Creating New York City’s Next Park with Rosa ChangImagine transforming a forgotten, dark space beneath one of New York’s most iconic landmarks into a vibrant community hub—this is the ambitious vision behind Gotham Park. Facilitating the vision and c 020
Louis Rosenfeld @louisrosenfeld.com · 30/12/2024Are you a UX designer, researcher, writer? Or a product person? Are you using AI in your work in productive, innovative ways? We're looking for great case studies for Designing with AI 2025 conference; call for proposals are due January 10: rosenfeldmedia.com/designing-wi...rosenfeldmedia.comCall for Case Studies | Designing with AIAre you a UX designer, researcher, writer, or product person who is using AI to improve your practice or product? Then we’d love to learn more! We’re seeking speakers to present their case studies at ... 053
Louis Rosenfeld @louisrosenfeld.com · 18/12/2024We humans generally focus far more on the bad things than the good. If you could take a pill to invert that tendency, would you? The bad things would still be happening, but your attention would be consumed by the positive stuff. Would you sign up for that? 350
Louis Rosenfeld @louisrosenfeld.com · 11/12/2024Thought experiment: it's 2016. Trump enters the Democratic primary. (Not crazy talk; arguably his "anti-establishment" platform overlapped with Bernie's.) Does Trump win the Democratic primary? How would he then fare against, say, Jeb? 020
Reposted by Louis RosenfeldCaroline Jarrett @cjforms.bsky.social · 10/12/2024"Have fun with statistics?" Join me and Erin Weigel and @louisrosenfeld.bsky.social We'll compare our ideas on statistical significance, effect sizes, and maybe some other stats topics. Thurs 12th Dec, 5pm CET, 4pm GMT, 11am EST. Free. #statistics #mrx us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...us02web.zoom.usWelcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Have fun with statistics?. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.Let’s face it, many of us feel daunted by statistics. But we also know that colleagues and clients ask whether our research has “statistically significant” results. Erin’s book Design for Impact hel... 163
Reposted by Louis RosenfeldRosenfeld Media @rosenfeldmedia.com · 06/12/2024There are only a few days left to shop our biggest sale of the year! 😱 Give yourself (or a friend) the gift of good UX. Shop the sale: rosenfeldmedia.com/winter-sale 012
Louis Rosenfeld @louisrosenfeld.com · 05/12/2024Pleasantly surprised: applied to renew my passport with the US State Department. Confirmation email said to anticipate 4-6 week turnaround. Fresh new passport arrived 8 days after applying. I like to think that some clever #CivicDesign folks had something to do with this... 2110
Louis Rosenfeld @louisrosenfeld.com · 02/12/2024It's not every week we launch a brand new conference! Excited to be diving into #ServiceDesign with a couple hundred fellow travelers at #ASD2024 (virtual; Dec. 3-4). You can still buy a ticket; also, we have free sponsored events that are actually really great: rosenfeldmedia.com/advancing-se...rosenfeldmedia.comAdvancing Service Designtagline 061
Louis Rosenfeld @louisrosenfeld.com · 26/11/2024I came up with a term that I thought was clever: "corporate cartography". (I'd like someone to write a book on making sense of/mapping large organizations). But dangit, pretty much everything out there is about... mining. 🤔 891
Louis Rosenfeld @louisrosenfeld.com · 22/11/2024One of my biggest professional regrets is making a commitment to WordPress for @rosenfeldmedia.bsky.social many years ago. Hindsight is always 20/20, but we've been so constrained by its brittleness and lack of object orientation. 260
Louis Rosenfeld @louisrosenfeld.com · 22/11/2024NYT article on US immigration: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/b... Political asylum aside, could we depoliticize the issue by framing it in purely economic terms? Regulate the flow of immigrants depending on economic conditions, just like the Fed regulates the money supply and interest rates?nytimes.comWhy Trump Allies Say Immigration Hurts American WorkersJD Vance and others on the “new right” say limiting immigration will raise wages and give jobs to sidelined Americans. Many studies suggest otherwise. 010
Louis Rosenfeld @louisrosenfeld.com · 21/11/2024Imagine we talked about AI without using the term "AI" (or "artificial intelligence"). What do we find ourselves actually discussing? Automation? Findability? Ethics? Content creation? Personal assistants? Improved accessibility? Something else? What are we trying to do/solve for here? 5140
