A few years ago, I wrote an article for the Irish Times about ageism in the tech industry. I was based in Silicon Valley at the time. Little did I imagine I would be on the receiving end of ageism myself shortly after. Ageism is rampant in tech, but also…

Ultan O’Broin. ID: N00200117. Course: DL908. 9 November 2020 — Submitted in partial fulfillment of the IADT MSc in User Experience (UX) Design, demonstrating learning outcomes from fundamental methodologies. Ultan O’Broin is part of the Howth team, along with Niamh Kearns and Áine O’Neill. Introduction and Navigation User Experience: “A person’s perceptions and responses resulting from the use and/or anticipated use of a…

A video of the FOTONS photo management app prototype app I talked about in the journey of my IADT.IE MSc in UX design major research project. The app video is an audiovisual walkthrough of the Figma prototype recorded using Apple QuickTime, and then uploaded to my YouTube channel. I point…

MSc in UX design, IADT 2020. References for nudging, design, sustainability, motivation, and more. Academic sharing only. Available here.

Knock yourselves out, people. A collection of all sorts of stuff from my IADT Dún Laoghaire MSc in UX design major research project 2022 (the paper and pictorial deliverables) is on the Miró workspace here. The topic is nudging design for sustainability with digital phones. Sharing is good. If you…

“On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog”, they claimed in the New Yorker. Trust me, we definitely know. Dogs don’t bark hate speech online, for a start. We need more Animal-Computing Interaction (ACI), and less HCI, to make the world a better place. Dog bytes A great article in the Financial…

This is not great news. The cookies of the million most visited websites produce more than 11,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions per month If you want to know more about the impact of digital tech on our environment then read this great report and interactive visualisation. …

An overview of the user-centred design process and some typical deliverables for each stage. As used for my MSC in UX Design paper in IADT.

The visual story of designing a mobile photo management app using nudging principles to increase motivation towards the environment. Another draft version. Part of the IADT MSc in UX design final year submission (2022). This one is more pictorial-ly. Enjoy the pictures.