73% of mothers with kids under 18 are in the workforce. More than flowers or brunch, working moms need: -Paid family leave -Equal pay -Universal childcare -Universal healthcare (But get your mom flowers, too)
Julie Morgan (she/her)
@juliemstudios.bsky.social
Designing for people and fair, innovative systems. Opinions my own. juliemorgan.studio 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
“What if, instead of recentring the human, we expanded our sense of relating[?]” @xonorika.bsky.social globalvoices.org/2026/04/16/o...
On centring the human
“Too often, conversations about AI remain trapped between denunciation and celebration, as if the only options are total refusal or uncritical embrace.”
globalvoices.org
"Benches are where optimistic visions of civic life meet reality. To remove them, or to curate who gets to sit, is to abandon the work of defining a civic ideal and determining, together, how to live up to it." NEW: Why benches are slowly disappearing from public spaces — and why we need them back:
The Disappearance of the Public Bench
Benches are microcosms of an expansive debate about who belongs in urban public spaces. When they are removed or made uninviting, we lose more than just a place to rest.
placesjournal.org
Our liberation is all interconnected. We can't fight for gender justice without defending transgender people.
Trans Rights Are Women's Rights | ACLU
Here’s why the rights of trans people are at the heart of gender justice for all.
aclu.org
“The difference between an AI's summary of War and Peace and the experience of reading it isn't about information—it's about transformation, about being changed by the encounter.”
UX How@uxhow.bsky.social · last yr.“IA is the skeleton of your system; the way components relate, how data flows, and how functionality is structured.”
UX How@uxhow.bsky.social · last yr.IA before AI: www.proofofconcept.pub/p/a-primer-o...
To question code also means living by a personal code of values. Five essential practices: Create space for deep thinking. Build real community connections. Participate in technology governance. Make mindful technology choices. Build better alternatives where technology serves human wellbeing.
If you do not understand what your feature helps people accomplish: - you cannot test if it is complete - you cannot test if it is effective - you cannot tell whether or not new additions are core to the objective or distractions - you cannot defend against cuts that go too deep
“Humans have always been radically shaped by the designs they produce” - Beatriz Colomina, Mark Wigley
ACLU@aclu.org · last yr.The same generative AI models that power programs like ChatGPT are now being used to supercharge video surveillance. Policymakers must create guardrails before we're stuck in a dystopian nightmare.
Insights from tonight’s panel on Enterprise vs. Consumer design 🧵
“We made painting feel like typing, but we should have made typing feel like painting.” Our interfaces have lost their senses: this multi-media essay is both lovely and haunting. wattenberger.com/thoughts/our...
In the spirit of human agency, my readings this year reflected an embrace of human-centered books in the backdrop of dystopian milieu. Here’s the list of the books I’ve read in 2024. May the road rise with you in 2025.
“Artificial intelligence” as a term can be misleading as it doesn’t really fit the definition of “intelligence” as we know it: the skilled use of reason: “skilled,” as in “having acquired a mastery,” and “reason,” as in “a rational ground or motive.”
Matthew Facciani@matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 2y agoNew study finds that frequent use of AI tools encourages offloading cognitive tasks and reduces critical thinking. Higher AI usage correlated with lower critical thinking skills, especially in younger users. www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15...
The annoying truth is that principled entrepreneurship along with trade organizations and various forms of collectives is effective praxis and we need more of it. Running a business that doesn't take venture and actually has to make money is really hard, but society needs those.
