Laura Klein
@lauraklein.bsky.social
Designer, researcher, author.
Treat motivated.
Treat motivated.
openai.com/index/group-...
Oh, this explains the spam I'm already getting with randos inviting me to chat with them and their stupid bot. Neat. Love a new spam vector.
Oh, this explains the spam I'm already getting with randos inviting me to chat with them and their stupid bot. Neat. Love a new spam vector.
Piloting group chats in ChatGPT
Collaborate with others, and ChatGPT, in the same conversation.
openai.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Oh, this explains the spam I'm already getting with randos inviting me to chat with them and their stupid bot. Neat. Love a new spam vector.
Oh, this explains the spam I'm already getting with randos inviting me to chat with them and their stupid bot. Neat. Love a new spam vector.
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The Edge Cases That Break Hearts (and Products), by @lauraklein.bsky.social (@nngroupux.bsky.social):
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/edge-cases/
#design #usability #accessibility #ux
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/edge-cases/
#design #usability #accessibility #ux
The Edge Cases that Break Hearts (And Products)
Edge cases aren't rare; they're real life. Design for messy situations like name changes, shared accounts, and bad actors from day one.
www.nngroup.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The Edge Cases That Break Hearts (and Products), by @lauraklein.bsky.social (@nngroupux.bsky.social):
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/edge-cases/
#design #usability #accessibility #ux
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/edge-cases/
#design #usability #accessibility #ux
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have you considered lying down in the woods and giving up about it
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
have you considered lying down in the woods and giving up about it
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The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.
NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
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End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
ig.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:08 AM
The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.
I'm not sure about this survey design.
November 6, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I'm not sure about this survey design.
Look. Whomst among us hasn't gone a little overboard after buying a new label maker?
[P] Found a higher-quality photo; IT *IS* TAPED UP SHEETS OF PAPER!
November 6, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Look. Whomst among us hasn't gone a little overboard after buying a new label maker?
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If you've already voted and need a little break from dancing on Cheney's grave, you can help get the word out about the next session of my workshop for people in organizations that actually want to learn things and get better at critical thinking.
www.eventbrite.com/e/lets-do-de...
www.eventbrite.com/e/lets-do-de...
Let's Do Design Research Right!
A 3-hour workshop that compels you to rethink your approach to design research, ensuring you are more effective and influential.
www.eventbrite.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
If you've already voted and need a little break from dancing on Cheney's grave, you can help get the word out about the next session of my workshop for people in organizations that actually want to learn things and get better at critical thinking.
www.eventbrite.com/e/lets-do-de...
www.eventbrite.com/e/lets-do-de...
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Ok in fairness to the media, "Man has extremely normal life experience, yet wants to become mayor of New York City, a job fit only for madmen and sex offenders" kinda is a story
October 28, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Ok in fairness to the media, "Man has extremely normal life experience, yet wants to become mayor of New York City, a job fit only for madmen and sex offenders" kinda is a story
Kind of jealous of all you folks with two wolves inside you. Mine seem to have been replaced by a family of feral raccoons.
October 27, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Kind of jealous of all you folks with two wolves inside you. Mine seem to have been replaced by a family of feral raccoons.
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"Oxford commas are a sign you write with ai" I will find such a unique way to rip out your spine that they'll make a movie about it
October 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
"Oxford commas are a sign you write with ai" I will find such a unique way to rip out your spine that they'll make a movie about it
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“Did something interesting happen at work today”
Girl i work with numbers… if something interesting happens I’ll throw up
Girl i work with numbers… if something interesting happens I’ll throw up
October 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
“Did something interesting happen at work today”
Girl i work with numbers… if something interesting happens I’ll throw up
Girl i work with numbers… if something interesting happens I’ll throw up
Turns out Idiocracy was too optimistic.
October 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Turns out Idiocracy was too optimistic.
My terrible brain this morning: Hey, I know you said you wanted to get up at 7am but did you by any chance mean 5? No? You sure? OK, I'll check in again every 15 minutes or so just to be safe.
October 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
My terrible brain this morning: Hey, I know you said you wanted to get up at 7am but did you by any chance mean 5? No? You sure? OK, I'll check in again every 15 minutes or so just to be safe.
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They should do trick or treating for adults where you get to wander around in your pyjamas while your neighbours leave out little bowls filled with painkillers and beta-blockers.
October 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
They should do trick or treating for adults where you get to wander around in your pyjamas while your neighbours leave out little bowls filled with painkillers and beta-blockers.
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the weirdest thing about having a gender is that it comes with a clothing buttons orientation
October 19, 2025 at 2:44 AM
the weirdest thing about having a gender is that it comes with a clothing buttons orientation
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I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.
October 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.
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Today, we honor Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
It’s a day to celebrate the immense contributions, vibrant cultures, and resilience of Native American and the indigenous communities.
It’s a day to celebrate the immense contributions, vibrant cultures, and resilience of Native American and the indigenous communities.
October 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Today, we honor Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
It’s a day to celebrate the immense contributions, vibrant cultures, and resilience of Native American and the indigenous communities.
It’s a day to celebrate the immense contributions, vibrant cultures, and resilience of Native American and the indigenous communities.
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If democracy, freedom, liberation, justice, equality, and all that other stuff liberals claim to like means anything, it surely means that the law applies to everyone equally, and yet we have capitalist lackeys arguing that they have to be allowed to commit crimes for their business model to work
October 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
If democracy, freedom, liberation, justice, equality, and all that other stuff liberals claim to like means anything, it surely means that the law applies to everyone equally, and yet we have capitalist lackeys arguing that they have to be allowed to commit crimes for their business model to work
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Calories don’t count while the government is shut down.
October 6, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Calories don’t count while the government is shut down.
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all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.
October 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM
all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.
Basketball preseason starts tonight and I haven't been this excited about something that will inevitably disappoint me since I was dating.
October 5, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Basketball preseason starts tonight and I haven't been this excited about something that will inevitably disappoint me since I was dating.
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*reading a work email* this could have not been an email
October 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
*reading a work email* this could have not been an email
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Live every day like it's Yom Kippur: Go for way too long without eating or drinking while obsessing about everything you did wrong.
October 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Live every day like it's Yom Kippur: Go for way too long without eating or drinking while obsessing about everything you did wrong.