Omar Sosa-Tzec·May 22, 2025Social Media and the Feeling of Not Doing EnoughThis post’s title seems to say everything I want to say and nothing at all. I am sure researchers are investigating this issue: social…
Omar Sosa-Tzec·Feb 15, 2024Three Metaphors of Screen AddictionMariek Vandeen Abeele, Annabell Halfmann, and Edmund Lee have written a piece in Current Opinion in Psychology titled “Drug, demon, or…
Omar Sosa-Tzec·Aug 15, 2022What is an experience?While reading “Basic Issues in Aesthetics” by critical Muelder Eaton — a comprehensive and pleasant overview of key concepts of aesthetics…
Omar Sosa-Tzec·Oct 16, 2020Monstrous UXI am back to medium. Hopefully, I will post more notes and reflections on visual communication, interfaces, and UX. My original plan was…
Omar Sosa-Tzec·Jun 28, 2016On Snapchat’s filters, interface, and user experienceVox has published a nice video about how Snapchat lenses, commonly known as filters, work. As a someone that once researched on digital…
Omar Sosa-Tzec·Jul 20, 2015Why did I find Spotify using my profile picture as an album cover a little bit disturbing?Today, when I opened Spotify, I found this (see image below):A response icon1A response icon1
Omar Sosa-Tzec·Jan 28, 2015Definition of Design. Yes, another one.One of the key challenges of being involved in a humanities & design-oriented perspective of Human-Computer Interaction is defining what…
Omar Sosa-Tzec·Jan 21, 2015Walter Benjamin’s notion of aura and Experience DesignIn “A Short History of Photography“, Benjamin Walter introduces the concept of aura as follows,
Omar Sosa-Tzec·Jan 21, 2015Google Cards: UX Design or Information Design?It’s been a half year since Google released Material Design. I still see it as a great strategy to bring a vocabulary to designers and…
