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Omar Sosa-Tzec
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Aug 15, 2022

What is an experience?

While reading “Basic Issues in Aesthetics” by critical Muelder Eaton — a comprehensive and pleasant overview of key concepts of aesthetics, I would say — I came across this concept that has been quite influential in how I think about (delightful) design: Dewey’s notion of experience. Considering that UX design…

User Experience

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User Experience

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Feb 25, 2022

Writing as Sketching (or Why I Don’t Write Any Longer)

Here I go… This post is very personal (well, every post is personal in the end; as a follower of the theory of social semiotics, any written piece on Medium and out there represents an attempt to describe a perception of the world by which we attempt to change other…

Personal

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Personal

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Oct 16, 2020

Monstrous UX

I am back to medium. Hopefully, I will post more notes and reflections on visual communication, interfaces, and UX. My original plan was to modify the blog I started during my doctoral studies: Bits of HCI. But later, I thought it was better if I start anew to signify a…

User Experience

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Monstrous UX
Monstrous UX
User Experience

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Jun 28, 2016

On Snapchat’s filters, interface, and user experience

Vox has published a nice video about how Snapchat lenses, commonly known as filters, work. As a someone that once researched on digital image processing algorithms, and learned about their possible complexity and computing demand, I’m really marveled about accessible facial recognition algorithms have become. The Snapchat filters motivated me…

Snapchat

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On Snapchat’s filters, interface, and user experience
On Snapchat’s filters, interface, and user experience
Snapchat

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Jul 20, 2015

Why 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): Later, I mentioned in facebook that using my profile picture for the “Discover Weekly” album is a little bit scary. Moreover, I tweeted that although Artificial Intelligence (AI) could be the next big thing in UI/UX design, we shouldn’t…

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Why did I find Spotify using my profile picture as an album cover a little bit disturbing?
Why did I find Spotify using my profile picture as an album cover a little bit disturbing?

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Jan 28, 2015

Definition 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 design (or Design) is. I think that having an operational definition for Design is healthy. It is not only about divagating, philosophizing, or making the word Design to look more…

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Definition of Design. Yes, another one.
Definition of Design. Yes, another one.

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Jan 21, 2015

Walter Benjamin’s notion of aura and Experience Design

In “A Short History of Photography“, Benjamin Walter introduces the concept of aura as follows, What is aura, actually? A strange weave of space and time: the unique appearance or semblance of distance, no matter how close it may be. While at rest on a summer’s noon, to trace a…

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Walter Benjamin’s notion of aura and Experience Design
Walter Benjamin’s notion of aura and Experience Design

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Jan 21, 2015

Google 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 users for understanding how UIs work. From that design framework, cards have caught my attention from the first time. I always wonder, are cards about…

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Google Cards: UX Design or Information Design?
Google Cards: UX Design or Information Design?

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Omar Sosa-Tzec

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Assistant Professor of Design Foundations at San Francisco State University

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