Tag: technology
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Understanding Synthetic Media: Workshop Learnings
Synthetic media is often framed as a technical novelty: impressive, futuristic, and slightly unsettling. This workshop shifted that perspective entirely. What became clear very quickly is that synthetic media is not just a technological development. It is a communication challenge, a power shift, and an ethical responsibility, especially for anyone working in marketing, media, or public communication. Synthetic…
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What Sandwiches Taught me About Ontologies
When I first heard we would be building an ontology about sandwiches in my Taxonomies and Metadata course, I assumes it was a metaphor. It wasn’t. By the end of the workshop, I realized the sandwich wasn’t a joke example at all and it was actually the perfect way to understand how machines learn meaning…
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Content Models: The Secret Architecture Behind Every Good Online Experience
If you’ve ever fallen into a rabbit hole of perfectly connected content, the kind where one page recommends exactly what you were looking for next. Where the search actually works and everything feels magically consistent, here’s the plot twist: it wasn’t magic. It was a content model. Yes, yes, I know. “Content model” doesn’t exactly…
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Everyday Lessons from Lief’s IA Lecture Notes
Guiding users through digital spaces Erickson Lief states that navigation is very similar to wayfinding in the physical world. Just like we rely on signs and maps to naviate cities that we visit, users depend on intuitive navigation to explore websites. When it comes to digital design, this translates to clear menus, search functions as…
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The World is Broken (and that’s a UX Problem)
Before taking the UX & Interaction Design course, I moved through digital and physical spaces assuming confusion and frustration were just a part of my daily life. Struggling with online forms? Normal. Getting lost in an app menu? Been there, done that. Misreading a door handle? Also a part of my day’s chaos. Then I…
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