Photo of the Week: March For Our Lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan

Listening to speeches, a woman and man sit next to each other in lawn chairs. The back of the chairs have handpainted signs saying Enough is Enough and How Many More. In the background, other marchers sit on concrete ledge.

Four years after attending March For Our Lives in Monroe, Michigan, I never dreamed I’d be attending another March For Our Lives event.

The student-led demonstration in support of gun-control legislation was held in March 2018, one month after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.

Yet, here we are.

Again.

Four years later.

Gathering together to share our outrage with lack of gun control legislation by our states and Congress.

Yesterday’s March For Our Lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan was one of hundreds of local marches held throughout the United States protesting continuing mass shootings and gun violence in our communities and schools.

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June 10, 2022 Weekly Roundup of Web Design and Development News

In this week’s web design and development news roundup, you’ll learn about automating recruitment for user research panels, find out how to configure settings on your WordPress site, discover a fun Tic Tac Toe game designed in HTML and CSS, and more.

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Takeaways from Why and How of User Research for Global Audiences

Presentation screen displaying small inset of Ruya Ince speaking next to a slide that says Localisations are experiences that demand that the experience be different when introduced to different user communities because of either language or cultural artifact (e.g., colors, signs, and rituals). Robert M. Schumacher, The Handbook of Global User Research.

In her “Why and How of User Research for Global Audiences” presentation at 24 Hours of UX 2022, Rüya Ince shared insights, tips, and resources for designing better global products and services by localizing user research.

Rüya Ince is a quantitative and mixed methods UX researcher and co-organizer of Ladies that UX Utrecht in The Netherlands.

Here are my notes.

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