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2026 6

  1. Harms of the AI ecosystem – infographic
  2. Swedish government gives go-ahead for police to generate CSAM
  3. Borg Complex, technofatalism and think-hostility
  4. The trauma of AI Humanizers
  5. Loving a dog
  6. Interactive playing cards for critical thinking

2025 6

  1. Schrödinger's Chat
  2. Frankenstein's expression
  3. LinkedIn removes clear support for trans people
  4. Accept, leave or reform the unsustainable
  5. Why Signal is more secure than WhatsApp
  6. Big Trek from Big Tech

2024 15

  1. Data Shadows in Government Erase Human Worth
  2. Typewriter design we still rely on
  3. Bluesky and the Power of Your Own Domain Name
  4. Fake QR code in a car park
  5. Back to work
  6. QR code hijacking can divert donations to criminals
  7. Heart surgery logistics and Therblig moments
  8. Barbie with a white cane highlights important behind-the-scenes work
  9. My tender heart and I
  10. AI Trial and Evaluation Worksheet
  11. Generative AI can not generate its way out of prejudice
  12. On Nielsen's ideas about generative UI for resolving accessibility
  13. ChatGPT 4 fails at solving a Captcha and progress is slow
  14. EU AI Act timeline
  15. AI Pooper Mode Request

2023 28

  1. ChatGPT and Mad Hatter
  2. Explaining responsibility, impact and power in AI
  3. Video summary of the White House executive order on AI
  4. Benefits and risks of synthetic video and audio
  5. Diagram: Bias in Machine Learning
  6. Don't fake bold and italic text with Unicode
  7. Jakob Nielsen about IQ and usability
  8. Why ”link in comments” is a bad idea for LinkedIn accessibility
  9. DuckDuckGo gives you a privacy-first gateway to ALL the search engines – with a bang
  10. Deepfake porn using any person on Instagram
  11. If a hammer was like AI…
  12. The Elements of AI Ethics
  13. Human-AI Interaction Influences Product Impact
  14. Recent Links on AI and Digital Ethics
  15. Campaign: Energy-Efficient Website
  16. Solution journalism in support of local environmental action in Ireland
  17. UX book authors through the ChatGPT looking-glass
  18. When your voice runs away from home
  19. Why that open letter urging an AI development pause is problematic
  20. Ignoring harm to others when you yourself benefit
  21. World Down Syndrome Day 2023
  22. AI responsibility in a hyped-up world
  23. Overpowering TikTok filters
  24. Goodbye Dickinson, hello AI-generated literature
  25. New podcast: Carefully with Per Axbom
  26. The ability that makes me who I am
  27. Join the Journey
  28. Pictosmart: Powerful impact with diagrams and animations

2022 29

  1. PSA: Choose your Mastodon instance
  2. 25 years of online resilience
  3. The many branches of the Fediverse
  4. Anonymous
  5. Social media endgame
  6. 10 quick Mastodon tips
  7. Why I left algorithm-based social media and what happened next
  8. Three lessons from a man who averted nuclear war by not trusting a computer
  9. Flashing content that can trigger seizures
  10. DickPicLocator is offline
  11. The creepy sound of online trackers
  12. Mindless data collection
  13. How to Build the Good and Responsible Thing
  14. Algo-free behavior
  15. Digital Ethics and Moral Theory Explained
  16. How captchas break democracy
  17. Indieweb and self-hosting my own space
  18. That Oompa Loompa message on Revue
  19. Bye, bye algorithm
  20. Big Tech Wipeout
  21. The Mammoth in the Room
  22. A Brief Mastodon Guide for Social Media Worriers
  23. The Trouble Diamond
  24. That unpleasant job posting from Nielsen Norman Group
  25. Keeping Up Appearances
  26. Design for universal wellbeing
  27. The Bigger Picture
  28. AI and Human Rights
  29. Human Rights and Empty Promises

2021 14

  1. The AI Spoon
  2. The world map that reboots your brain
  3. Killer robots hiding in plain sight
  4. Happy World Usability Day 2021
  5. High-speed threats in a shared public space
  6. A Facebook Issue
  7. A Dubious Apple and Believing the Impossible
  8. A Design Ethics Track for Yearlong Bite-Sized Learning
  9. Apple Child Safety Harms
  10. The topple of an iceberg: You're drawing it wrong
  11. Techniques and tools for online teaching, workshops and presentations.
  12. Types of AI Ethics Paper
  13. The Elements of Digital Ethics
  14. Clubhouse overview - a visual guide to the app

2020 13

  1. Your unique typing rhythm can reveal your identity
  2. How I left Wordpress and moved my 740 blog posts to Ghost
  3. Why I avoid using Zoom for meetings
  4. Embed YouTube videos without cookies
  5. Digital Ethics – The Mindmap
  6. The slavery supported by that device in your pocket
  7. Hey, your e-mail matters more than hype
  8. The systemic complexity of managing a pandemic
  9. Making friends with Tech for Good
  10. Waking up in the office
  11. Five reasons why I deleted my Facebook account
  12. Pandamonium #3
  13. Pandamonium #2

2019 7

  1. Pandamonium #1
  2. Subscribing to newsletters the mindful way
  3. Digital Compassion: A Human Act
  4. Flowchart: Manage impact in design
  5. How Nir Eyal’s habit books are dangerous
  6. Messages in WhatsApp are stopping immigrants
  7. Convert newsletters to Atom/RSS feeds

2018 4

  1. Mostly Harmless in the Amazonas
  2. Don't feed the designers after midnight
  3. Introducing the Inclusive Panda
  4. AMP Letter

2017 12

  1. Confirmshaming - the art of insulting your target group
  2. axbom.com — 20 years old
  3. Misusability update #2
  4. What social platforms could do to fight online harassment
  5. Misusability update #1
  6. The Hidden Persuaders of the Digital Age
  7. Is GPS data in your photo good or bad?
  8. Misusability
  9. Why I built the DickPicLocator™
  10. The Crazy World of Superhero Film Rights
  11. How to delete unroll.me and revoke their access to your e-mail
  12. Ling Valentine answers my questions about LingsCars

2016 3

  1. When friction is a good thing
  2. Fairy Tale Experiences talk at #UXLx
  3. Muse-letter from @axbom

2015 4

  1. The three types of curiosity
  2. The invisible problem with fairytale experiences
  3. Take-aways from UXLx 2015 in #sketchnotes
  4. Timeless advice for becoming a player in the field of UX

2014 1

  1. Please stop the useless meetings

2013 4

  1. The AceAwe Experience Model: Helping You Create Impressive Products
  2. Eliminate Design — #UXLx lightning talk
  3. Stop-Start-Keep — A template for remembering your goals
  4. Introducing the ACEAWE Experience Model

2012 5

  1. Digital trends that will transform your business
  2. Don't ask users what they want!
  3. The strategy document booby trap
  4. Holy customer failure @GymPact
  5. Sketchnotes from #uxlx 2012

2011 4

  1. Kevin Powell on Mobile Web and Responsive Design
  2. English blog - Total Recall
  3. Axbom Innovation Manifesto For Successful Websites
  4. Video: optimizing images for the web

2010 1

  1. Strategy and value curve for the iPad

2009 3

  1. Happy New Year from Axbom Innovation
  2. Merry Christmas from Axbom Innovation
  3. Fuglesang is talking to you, not media

2006 2

  1. Captcha: Killing accessibility
  2. Embedding Flash with high accessibility

2005 2

  1. Little Bossman - African Hunting Masks
  2. Little Bossman

1999 2

  1. Crying Wolf (the Y2K scare)
  2. Gross Misinformation on the Net

Undated 70

  1. Instagram government communication
  2. Automation change
  3. Sudan true size
  4. Aihype playlist
  5. Chatbot pollution
  6. Paywall
  7. Mostly harmless
  8. How does a ux agency find larger scale clients
  9. Tech addiction
  10. Metaverse poem
  11. Better products when people change within
  12. Muse letter the one with the puppy
  13. The power of glocal thinking
  14. Allow me to listen
  15. Back to basics
  16. Pandamonium remembering to replenish
  17. Year of the reboot
  18. Little bossman chapter3
  19. Little bossman chapter2
  20. Little bossman is free
  21. Little bossman chapter1
  22. Webcommunicate
  23. Talkingweb
  24. Getitfree
  25. Directwebsite
  26. Netiquette
  27. Whats the deal with wap
  28. Safestress
  29. Socialcomputing
  30. Kiss my context
  31. A persona walked into a storyboard
  32. Tshirts for interaction designers
  33. Jesse james garrett explains ux
  34. My thoughts on the rwd challenges
  35. Eliminate design slides for uxlx lightning talk
  36. Slaying 5 ux myths good mankind
  37. Love hate user testing
  38. Mailchimp single optin
  39. Trust can you build it
  40. Hacked
  41. Ruckusmakerday
  42. Ux lemonade
  43. Fisher businessman
  44. A guide to voting in the swedish election
  45. Fauxtonomy
  46. First design no harm
  47. Apple airtag abuse
  48. First design no harm uxcopenhagen
  49. Consent for recording meetings
  50. Spotify ceo memo
  51. Spotify ceo
  52. Raoul wallenberg talks
  53. Create a web thats easy to read
  54. Digital abuse is hard to leave
  55. Reflect
  56. Difference experience designer interaction designer
  57. Surfacing
  58. Memeaccess
  59. Events inclusivity
  60. First
  61. T12t accessibility
  62. The ethical design handbook
  63. Mueller hearing
  64. Myth mental health shooting
  65. Ux definition
  66. Persuasive defaults design
  67. Representation ai sweden
  68. Hell turdy
  69. Trump vs trump by brown
  70. Black squares