Alina Van-Hou

UX | Service design | Research | Former dev | Mother of two

[Matthew Magain @mattymcg]

I'm pretty sure my daughter just teensplained Menulog to me. Is that a word? It is now.

[Katelyn Bourgoin 🧠 @KateBour]

It sucks when you’ve got a new product idea and your customer research proves that your assumptions were wrong and no one really wants your product.

It sucks way more when you don’t do any research and spend months (or years) building the wrong thing.

[Alina Van-Hou @alinavan]

Just realised this law firm has email signatures in Comic Sans! #mismatch

[Emma Alberici @albericie]

ICYMI: Colonial First State broke superannuation laws 15,000 times hears the Royal Commission that many thought we didn't need ..... https://t.co/ko5UvjluQI

[Emily Tate @thedailyem]

Working on a talk - for people who have moved from being a PM/Designer/Engineer into being a manager, what has been the biggest surprise or challenge you wish you would have known about before going into it?

[Alina Van-Hou @alinavan]

Avoid death by featuritis or ‘experience rot’. “Steve Jobs once said, “You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying ‘no’ to 1,000 things.” Thanks for a great reminder @jmspool

[Stone Cold Jane Austen @fleurdeliqueur]

Netflix should add the category "Sorry There Are No More Episodes of Bake-Off and Queer Eye, You're Clearly Going Through Some Stuff, Here Are Some Other Soothing Shows with People Being Nice to Each Other over Low-Stakes Things"

[Alina Van-Hou @alinavan]

@svetaz Shame on @dailytelegraph for publishing this!

[Alina Van-Hou @alinavan]

There must be a name for this, some sort of disorder of having hundred tabs open 😅 #toomanytabs

[Emma Alberici @albericie]

Playing Articulate with 12 year olds. One gives this clue to the other: “old person’s texting that takes too long” ? The other yells Emailing! High fives all round 🤔

[UNSW @UNSW]

BREAKING: Prof Michelle Simmons has been formally admitted to The @RoyalSociety! Alongside @ElonMusk & pioneers of science, she’s now signed “the book”. Its signatures date back to 1660 & include those of Newton, Darwin & Einstein. 9 of this year’s 50 fellows are Aussie! 🇦🇺👊

[Emma Alberici @albericie]

20 of 2300 works 😔 https://t.co/JIWQyDD9ta

[Lisa Railey @railey180]

@martintom has published a book on the techniques they have been teaching for the last 15 years. It is cross industry and has a bunch of templates available on Creative Commons. #DesignMethods #IxDASyd

[Alina Van-Hou @alinavan]

@mulegirl I’d say it should start with foundation of teaching them how to say no.

[Ivy Hornibrook @ivyhornibrook]

Must read information architecture books from @EllenGeraghty at #sydcontentstrat

[alberta soranzo @albertatrebla]

"every hire you make ratchets up your social complexity. and when those hires are made unconsciously and when governing structures are applied too late, social complexity becomes social debt. and when social debt accrues, bad things happen." https://t.co/5ydmnHeaK3

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

The real headline today should be that President of the United States has decided to do nothing to help 2300 children reunite with their parents

He took them away from their moms and dads and he’s not backing down at all