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Axel Hansers

Design Blunders — Dancing dots, and thoughtless copying.

I’m not sure if you have ever noticed, but most chat apps nowadays have dancing dots in them.

Nov 11

Design Blunders — Dancing dots, and thoughtless copying.

Nov 11

Axel Hansers

The Shadow of Psychedelics — Respect and Caution.

I talked to a person who had lived on the streets for the majority of their life - They said something very important about psychedelics!

Nov 9

The Shadow of Psychedelics — Respect and Caution.

Nov 9

Axel Hansers

Memento Mori — What if you are not going to retire?

Think about this for a short while — What if you really knew for a fact that you were not going to get old enough to retire?

Nov 4

Memento Mori — What if you are not going to retire?

Nov 4

Axel Hansers

ReThink — Meditation is bad for you, and you should stop doing it!

Did you know that there is actually quite a lot of empirical evidence supporting that very statement? … I didn’t but I really wish I did!

Nov 26, 2023

ReThink — Meditation is bad for you, and you should stop doing it!

Nov 26, 2023

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Fixing dialogue — Why Jeff Bezos is wrong and I am right

The popular saying “Strong opinions, loosely held” which is often attributed to Jeff Bezos is something I do not agree with, not at all!

Jun 22, 2023

Fixing dialogue — Why Jeff Bezos is wrong and I am right

Jun 22, 2023

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Fixing happiness — Getting rid of wanting, and what we can learn from hungry ghosts

“Do not try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-already-are.” — The Dalai Lama

Mar 20, 2023

Fixing happiness — Getting rid of wanting, and what we can learn from hungry ghosts

Mar 20, 2023

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Starting out as a User Researcher: On the subtleties of what makes really good UX and how to…

It is often easy to think of UX as only being about if a product is usable or not, but you need to be able to explain why it is so much…

Feb 2, 2023

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Feb 2, 2023

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Starting out as a User Researcher: Seeing the whole picture.

What if I told you that an ancient story about blind men and an elephant could teach you what the central task of a User Researcher is?

Dec 12, 2022

A picture of an elephant's eye zoomed up close.

Dec 12, 2022

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Starting out as a User Researcher: An important skill no other article talks about

I want to explain some of the lesser-known skills that are important when starting out as a User Researcher - One of these being…

Dec 11, 2022

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Dec 11, 2022

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Akrasia — Why you are wasting your time reading articles like this and what you should do instead.

I would say that Most non-fiction books could be written as articles, and most non-fiction articles should not be written to begin with…

Nov 27, 2022

Akrasia — Why you are wasting your time reading articles like this and what you should do instead.

Nov 27, 2022

Axel Hansers

Axel Hansers

Wannabe Philosopher @ Home｜Service Designer @ Work — I write scrappy posts about something every other sometime!

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