Insights from Nebo

After spending four years at Nebo, I have a confession to make: I wasn’t always a User Experience (UX) Designer. In fact, I worked in an entirely different field.

I’m sure your theories are running wild. But rest assured, I wasn’t a secret agent rockstar astronaut (although that does sound cool). 

For nearly a decade, I was an Occupational Therapist (OT) working in acute care hospitals. And while you might not think my current and former careers have much in common, the truth is, they do. 

My mom says it’s okay if your mom says it’s okay!

The FIFA World Cup has come to North America, and millions of fans from all over the world have flocked to the U.S. in what’s been coined the “Great American Sleepover.” 

Google has finally released its official guidelines for optimizing your website for generative AI features on Google Search. Turns out the winning strategy isn’t LLMS.txt files and “chunking” after all. 

It’s creating original, authentic, relevant content that AI bots and search engines can easily find and navigate — aka human-focused SEO. 

We are all dealing with a lot. Not to be a downer, but… the list goes on and on.

expectations • meetings • imposter syndrome • quiet quitting • quiet cracking • burnout • shift sulking • big tech • google stitch • claude design • revenge bedtime procrastination • efficiency • production • expertise • exhaustion • high functioning depression • the economy • politics • the world…

It’s. A. Lot.

Hot take: there’s a good chance that AI’s writing abilities have already peaked, and they’re… just okay. 

Maybe not a surprising take, from a writer, but hear me out. My skin in the game aside, scientists, critics, and even Bill Gates have been questioning whether AI can get much better since at least 2025. AI lovers and haters alike claim that artificial intelligence’s abilities are exponentially growing. But, at least when it comes to LLMs, that may not be true. 

No matter who you are, the past couple of years have been… a lot. And if you’re in the queer community, it’s… even more a lot. It feels like legislators are dedicating all of their time to attacking our community (obsessed much?). Which means how we observe Pride season this year feels extra important.

The current climate brings to mind the words of activist Dan Savage, who said, “During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced at night. The dance kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for.”