Published in User Experience Magazine, 2019
Build user knowledge and apply UX principles to improve user decision-making and data identification to ensure mainframe data compliance.
Recommended citation: McFarlin, L. (2019). "Supporting Mainframe Data Compliance: A UX Approach." User Experience Magazine. 19(2). https://uxpamagazine.org/supporting-mainframe-data-compliance-a-ux-approach/
Published in UX Planet, 2019
Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) continues its determined march toward becoming a part of our personal lives and workdays. Sometimes its presence is negligible — it is not there until you access it, like Siri, or it runs unobtrusively, like Spotify. Other times, A.I. is a boogeyman posing a threat to our livelihoods, the intangible enemy waiting to replace us at our jobs. Does it have to be that way, though?
Recommended citation: McFarlin, L. (2019). "Positively Motivating A.I. Use in the Workplace." UX Planet. https://uxplanet.org/positively-motivating-a-i-use-in-the-workplace-8e06d82a1ab4
Published in Prototypr.io, 2018
With the rise of A.I. in our daily lives, questions around what it means for the future of society command our attention. These questions range from inquiries into the nature of humanity, to explorations of the complex effects on economies. And lurking in the collective, a healthy sprinkle of dystopian evil robot overlord fear as a counter-balance.
Recommended citation: McFarlin, L. (2018). "Transferring Biases to A.I." Prototypr.io. https://blog.prototypr.io/transferring-biases-to-a-i-f8f36772d9e2