UX architect consultant coach, design systems, design thinking, sustainability, social experience, listening companies. The Big Here and the Long Now.
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Joan Vermette retweeted
I just found out that Bill Watterson (the genius behind Calvin and Hobbes) gave a commencement speech in 1990 and it's incredible
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Joan Vermette retweeted
“How much more free time do you really think you should have?”
Capitalism has people thinking “free time” in life is a gift from the bosses & life should mainly be spent in service to corporate profits
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Joan Vermette retweeted
This is a five alarm fire.
ALT “This should be alarming to anyone who values a free society,” Kautz warned. “If paying bail is criminalized, the result will be a criminal justice system which can jail people indefinitely with no evidence, no trial and no recourse.
SB 63 — which would criminalize bail funds in Georgia — passed the Senate today. The bill would make bailing more than 3 people out of jail per YEAR a crime for bail funds and nonprofits. It also increases the number of non-bail-eligible offenses. atlpresscollective.com/2024/…
Joan Vermette retweeted
Happy to get this recommendation. I authored a chapter in this book called "The Question of a Franco-American Revival" about the recent flurry of activity and revival of interest in the Québécois/Acadian descendants in New England. Oui, il existe également une version française.
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Joan Vermette retweeted
these motherfuckers are boyfriends. rt to make sure we see them become husbands.
#SaveOFMD
#RenewAsACrew
#OurFlagMeansDeath
Joan Vermette retweeted
Why Our Flag Means Death fans think show cancellation is down to homophobia thepinknews.com/2024/01/13/o… #OFMD #OFMDSeason3 #SaveOurFlagMeansDeath
Joan Vermette retweeted
Affirmative action was never a complete answer in the drive towards a more just society. But for generations of students who had been systematically excluded from most of America’s key institutions—it gave us the chance to show we more than deserved a seat at the table.
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent decision, it’s time to redouble our efforts.
Joan Vermette retweeted
Help us reach our goal of $15K in 2022!
FADA/PFA is made possible by the generosity of our communities. Your gift to FADA/PFA can fund student interns, server space, site maintenance, and web development to help FADA/PFA grow.
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Joan Vermette retweeted
The Great Resignation draws attention to rising expectations for autonomy and respect.
MEANWHILE...
“On 5/7 a New York law kicked in requiring companies to inform employees about electronic monitoring of their telephone, email and internet activity.” economist.com/business/welco…
Joan Vermette retweeted
Holy shit.
Joan Vermette retweeted
Here's a daily reminder: if you don't support Medicare for All—you want disabled & poor people to die. If ur asking "how are we going to pay for it?"—you want disabled & poor people to die. If you bet M4A won't happen—you want disabled & poor ppl to die.
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Joan Vermette retweeted
Anyone else feeling kind of riled by the tidal wave of tech bros having an epiphany that design systems are about people?
Meanwhile the rest of us have been building communities and writing docs for days as they gazed lovingly into the eyes of their component libraries…
Joan Vermette retweeted
a story in 4 acts nitter.gq/iamdavidobrien/status/…
ALT Stephanie Sell @stephaniesell_ · Feb 3 Me, a junior product designer: Wow, I can’t believe they’d ship that design. Me, a senior designer: (Pause) I wonder what trade-offs the designers needed to make, the design process they followed, what their users have to say, what the goals they were trying to accomplish… Bill DeRouchey @billder · 1h Me, principal designer: I wonder what organizational structure and dynamics made that decision inevitable Dan Saffer @odannyboy · 20m Me, design director: I wonder what they were hoping to ship instead of this David O’Brien @iamdavidobrien Me, a user: WTF is this shit?
Joan Vermette retweeted
You want to thank Black women?
Cancel student debt -- all of it.
Black women carry more student debt than any other group in America.
Save your words of appreciation. Policy is our love language.
Joan Vermette retweeted
Seriously— if they’ve already decided they won’t object to the certification anymore, if they’ve altered the procedure now to be a single vote, what the f are they doing right now if they aren’t directly addressing what just transpired at Trump’s hand? nitter.gq/BreeNewso…
Joan Vermette retweeted
Disabled people are well aware that we are not included in most emergency plans.
It's regularly discussed that active shooter drills leave disabled kids somewhere hopefully hidden while everyone else is evacuated or defended.
Even at that level, @SenDuckworth had to be *lucky*.
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