Gregor Schmalzried

The Value of UX with Johannes Lehner: The Power of the UX Community Key info: UX is about reducing risk and solving the right problems, and it’s always better with others by your side. When Johannes Lehner first started in UX, he felt lost, the field was big, complex, and full of experts. But kind professionals helped him find his path, so now he gives back by building communities, connecting people, and sharing knowledge. For him, the real value of UX is reducing risk, making sure products solve the right problems before jumping into solutions. He believes UX is not just design, but about understanding problems deeply before you build anything. His biggest advice: don’t work alone, find a team, get feedback, and grow together. That’s how we build better products and better people. Thanks to you an all communities you are supporting: UX Graz, 24 Hours of UX, UXPA International, World Usability Congress and all former speakers Markus Pirker, Verena Seibert-Giller, Ahmad ALhuwwari 🇵🇸🇵🇸, Stefan Barac and all others :)

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I was honoured when Tim Leberecht listed my cyberpsychology-across-the-lifespan book, Reset, as one of ten books produced by HoBBers. I want to read other books on this list because the conversations I have with fellow friends of House of Beautiful Business are surprising, rewarding, and challenging. The reading and writing of books is a conversation too, so it's another way for us to talk with one another. When I go to write, one of the first things I ask myself is: 'In writing this, with whom do I wish to converse?' It's a useful starting point for a piece of writing. But as Tim intimates in this piece, we might start out intending one conversation, but then another emerges. We don't know what will hit, what will resonate with whom or where. We don't know where our words will travel. The communities you wanted to dialogue with might not be the ones your words will get to or affect. Ultimately, the writer-reader dynamic is unpredictable. Both parties may be surprised, discomfited, challenged, pleasantly or unpleasantly startled by what transpires between them. Authors may encounter judgements they didn't expect or want. On the other hand, they may receive gifts/opportunities/connections they never anticipated. These frictions, unexpected twists and turns, and surprises are essential parts of our human experience. Polymath Brian Eno was recently talking to Ezra Klein on Ezra's podcast (recommended). Eno said, '[Predictability/sycophancy] is not even what we like, actually....as humans, we like a certain amount of predictability, but only a certain amount. We don't want exactly the same each time. So...we rely on our interest being taken by a deviation we didn't expect.' Klein discloses how he uses ChatGPT to research or plan for interviews, but then reflects on the organic, un-anticipatable, unfolding nature of the conversations between him and his guests. That hunger for the deviations we don't expect is, perhaps, the reason why a hyper-tailored 'reading experience' may never give us what we most crave in the longer term. I love this bit in Tim's piece: 'For every AI-generated manuscript, there is a book club—online or in person. Shared reading rituals abound, silent or spoken. These practices, far from dying, are flourishing.' I am a member of two: Rebel Book Club founded by Ben Keene and Ben Saul-Garner, and another so eccentric and lovely and old-school that it feels too sacred to name or advertise. The meet-ups for both are utterly life-affirming, partly because I constantly encounter deviations I didn't expect. As always, thanks, Tim, for your thought-provoking work. You draw together so many shining threads when you write, making unique webs of connections that are utterly yours. I appreciate that hugely, and for obvious reasons, now more than ever. #Books #Writing #Community #HumanConnection #AIPublishing Elliott & Thompson

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Interesting question raised at the Archivschule Marburg - Hochschule für Archivwissenschaft Kolloquium onAI in Archivs - what do we need to preserve about #DigitalTwins and their decisions long term and how do we do it

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I’m excited to share my new publication in the frame of Netzwerk Naturwissen: 🟢 Naturwissen im Aushandlungsprozess oder: Die Stimmenvielfalt der Museumsbesuchenden (Negotiating Nature Knowledge: The Diverse Voices of Museum Visitors) 🟢 Before I dive into the publication, a bit about me: I come from a farming family with no academic background. No one in my family went to high school, yet that never meant a lack of insight or knowledge. This experience taught me to value perspectives often left out of academic spaces and to challenge the idea that knowledge only belongs to “experts.” So why does this matter and what does this have to do with the publication? Because in this research, we listened to museum visitors Museum für Naturkunde Berlin - not to judge their answers, but to explore them, identify common themes, and understand ambivalences. The text looks at understandings of knowledge about nature along key axes: - experiential vs. abstract knowledge - anthropocentric vs. biocentric perspectives - objective vs. normative knowledge - learning vs. action-oriented knowledge - implicit vs. explicit knowledge What we found is that knowledge about nature isn’t a single, fixed thing. Instead, it emerges dynamically between everyday experience, ethics, and science. Of course, the museum space is exclusive by nature and thus shapes the audience of this study. But it is a starting point. If you’re interested in how museums and public knowledge intersect, I’d love to hear your thoughts! Together with Julia Diekämper and Carolin Glahe #FeministGeography #PublicEngagement #MuseumStudies #ScienceCommunication #ParticipatoryResearch #NatureKnowledge #FirstGen

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Wir bekämpfen Fluchtursachen und keine Geflüchteten! Dafür müssen wir in den Regionen vor Ort Aufbauarbeit leisten und in Menschen investieren. Das tun wir tagtäglich mit HÁWAR.help. Teachers do more than impart knowledge – they inspire curiosity, build confidence, and shape the minds of future generations. In every classroom, a teacher has the power to change lives by nurturing potential and instilling lifelong values. Teachers and education are the foundation for a brighter future. Yet the educational field in Arabic schools in the Kurdistan Region in Iraq, particularly in camps for internally displaced people (IDPs), is facing financial and structural damage due to the current financial instability in the resulting education sector and the irregularity of payment. As a result, teachers often work despite irregular salary payments or even on a voluntary basis. Our project “Enhancing Education in Iraqi Camps by Supporting Educators and Schools” aims to improve the education sector in the Kurdistan Region in Iraq by supporting teachers’ livelihoods and equipping schools with necessary resources. The project boosts the income of the volunteer teachers in one camp school in each Qadia and Sharya camp by providing them with a monthly salary, and enhances the learning experience for students by equipping schools with essential educational tools. These range from equipment for teachers such as laptops, paper and printers to equipment for students and classrooms such as models for science subjects, maps for geography classes, craft materials, sports equipment and heating devices for the cold winters in Kurdistan. Thus, teachers are able to practice their profession while continuing to be paid for it. This, along with better equipment and tools given to schools as part of the project, will have a direct impact on the quality of learning and education, creating lasting change for the schools, students and wider community the project serves. With financial support from the State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg and the State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg through the Baden-Württemberg Foundation for Development Cooperation, as part of the partnership initiative between Baden-Württemberg and northern Iraq. #SEZ #regierungbw #theländ #Kurdistan #Iraq Wer unsere Projekte unterstützen will, kann dies gerne hier tun: http://hawar.help/spenden

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We just shared a recent research project exploring how music education is beginning to experiment with XR using PatchWorld. In the LEVIKO-XR workshops, future music teachers stepped into a shared virtual space to explore collaborative music-making and new ways of interacting with sound!! We wrote a short article about the project and the recently published research paper. 👇 More here.

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Breaking the Silos: Last week brought a great community dialogue on interdisciplinary collaboration. In the video: Two principles I shared to frame the workshop. Last weeks event: Impulse Talks from Ellery Studio and WINT Design Lab, organized by Berlin Design e.V. and Employed.world for Transfer Week Berlin / Brandenburg. I closed it off with a good 90 minutes of community dialogue: "Great workshop last night." – "Thank you for the great time I had!" – "I really liked the style." – "The energy was fantastic." ✨🤝 Shown principles from my *Instant Innovation Cards* cc BIS Publishers #innovationdecoded #collaboration #doingnewthingstogether #instantinnovation #design #future #product #disciplines #alignment Thanks Bernd Riedel and Roland Heß for encouraging this video. Planning more content very soon, what would you like to see?

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What an incredible innovation and example in how Education can change. Having been involved in the education system for 25 years as a chair of governors of a local school. With all the changes and challenges I saw and experienced I am convinced things have to change for the sake of our children. Most education systems I have seen are broken. In the UK we really still have a very Victorian approach to a vastly different world, different demographic and a different pace of change- we need new approaches. This gives me a little hope we can find them.

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So great to see this being published. I also love the first line, 'Converting complex texts into simple texts isn't easy.' My team are highly skilled in their work. It is not an overnight skill anyone acquires. It is an evolution with many hours of skill practice and feedback from consumers. The assumptions made about the skills and time it takes to develop content that is quality and meets the needs of the intended audience is extraordinary. Ask anyone how long it took to develop the original version. So how long do you think it will take our team to read and understand it? Now we need to develop the version that people with low literacy need and want, including identifying meaningful images to support the text.

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For Ukranian refugees across #Europe, the ability to work remotely offers a lifeline, but it also comes with specific challenges. This is just one example of remote work that isn't immediately apparent when you hear the term. The Remaking_eu project takes a holistic view on the multitude of forms of remote work. It also shows how they are relevant for policy makers. In this interview, researcher Anna Oechslen explains how the project operates and how she conducts research with Ukrainian refugees in Germany. Interview in English: https://lnkd.in/eMYTQyFX Interview auf Deutsch: https://lnkd.in/e8eWjMYi #REMAKING #RemoteWork #Refugees #Ukraine

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Happy to share our new publication on job crafting! In a 10-day diary study, Rebekka Kuhlmann and I explored how job crafting contributes to daily gain cycles involving psychological capital and work engagement in hybrid work settings. Our findings show that these short-term dynamics vary depending on employees' work location, the types of job crafting, and personality traits—helping us understand why proactive behaviors don’t work the same for everyone, every day. Interested? The paper, now published in the Journal of Business and Psychology, is available open access here: https://lnkd.in/du34Bfa8

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Episode Three of Harmonically Speaking features Daniel S. Scholz, Professor for Musicians Health with a special focus on mental health, in Lübeck. Hailing from Tübingen in southern Germany, he is a trained psychologist and jazz musician, training in Marburg, Osnabrück, and Hannover. In 2022 he took up his current position in Lübeck, in the process becoming the first professor of this kind in Germany. Alongside his outpatient work, he gives seminars on stage fright, and self esteem, and has authored and co-authored numerous studies including one exploring low self esteem and performance anxiety and how it can predict depression in musicians. I'm extremely grateful to Daniel for having taken time out of his busy schedule to talk to me about his journey, the issues musicians face, and what we can all do to improve our mental health. It was an enlightening and invigorating conversation and hope you enjoy it! Available on: Acast: https://lnkd.in/erXA22JJ Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/ewPZpa9X Spotify: https://lnkd.in/e7hSDEpr

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