May 15, 2021Social Onboarding in the Age of Remote WorkingHow the social aspects of joining a new team have changed since we started to work completely remotely — Socially speaking, starting a new job is a lot like going to a new school mid-year. At first, the only thing that you have in common with your classmates is the classes you take while they have an entire social system and hierarchy that you have no clue about. You…Remote Working11 min readRemote Working11 min read
Feb 6, 2021Openly Stealth: Being transgender at work(My “You Got This From Your Couch” Talk transcript) — By Alex Papadopoulos Alex Papadopoulos (@imalexnowuk) is a UX Designer and a PhD Adventurer at UCL, committed to the noble cause of making the world suck less. He is a founding member of Queer Wave, the first LGBTQ+ film festival in Cyprus, a peer mentor at Spectra, an organisation that…LGBTQ17 min readLGBTQ17 min read
Jan 14, 2021Exploring the User Experience of the NPS in online purchasesIn theory, the Net Promoter Score is supposed to tell you about customer satisfaction. The question “Would you recommend [product X] to a friend or colleague?” …UX3 min readUX3 min read
Dec 3, 2020Elliot Page: A New HopeIf you have been anywhere on the internet the past three days, you must have seen somewhere the news title “Elliot Page, Oscar nominated actor of Umbrella Academy has come out as transgender” in one form or another. …Elliot Page2 min readElliot Page2 min read
Jan 2, 2020A love letter to 2019Dear 2019, People say you were terrible. And I can’t really disagree, because in a lot of ways, man, you fucked shit up. The world is collapsing, and you just stood there calm and content, being the year you are, and waited. I’m pretty sure you, too, were tired of…Transgender2 min readTransgender2 min read
Nov 27, 2017Public bathrooms scare meAmongst other things, because the world is pretty scary as it is right now, if someone asks me what are the things I am most afraid of, I’d probably include spiders and public bathrooms in my list. …Transgender4 min readTransgender4 min read
Published inthe Wizard Activist·Jun 12, 2017My first Pride paradeI had promised myself that I would keep myself out of this discussion. I figured there are enough people out there to justify the answer to the much repeated question “But why do people need pride parades?”. My immediate circle, I thought, knew why we celebrate Pride and they did…LGBTQ4 min readLGBTQ4 min read
Published inthe Wizard Activist·Jul 29, 2016Demographics and Researchby Alex P. (He/Him/His or They/Their/Theirs) — (Alex is a full time advocate of making the world suck less. Other than being a nerdfighter and a wizard-activist, Sophie is a smartypants technology freak,an aspiring user experience researcher and a proud Ravenclaw. …Gender3 min readGender3 min read
Published inP.S. I Love You·Jul 2, 2016I dream about war,and music and buses and people from the past. I dream about people who were who they said they were and people who lied. I dream about destruction and fire and pain. I dreamed that I had a choice and I chose destruction. I dream about love. I dream about affection. I dream about caring and deeply understanding. I dream that the world is mine and I choose what to make of it. I dream about transforming. I dream about staying the same.Dreams1 min readDreams1 min read
Published inP.S. I Love You·Jun 23, 2016On bisexual erasure and friendshipSo, as I was walking towards the tube the other day, I had an epiphany. One that I experienced a few times before, but I always pushed it towards the back of my head in order not to think about it much. It came in the form of a thought…LGBTQ2 min readLGBTQ2 min read
