Friends: Are any of you freelance UX designers? Or do you know anyone whom you'd personally recommend? Cuz we're looking for one.

The sort of person I'm looking for would nod at bullet points like:
* Create sitemaps, user flows, wireframes, mid-to-high fidelity static mockups, and prototypes
* Design usable, accessible, and engaging user experiences for mobile and web based on research, data analytics and best practices

Send a PM and ideally a LinkedIn URL or portfolio.

BASEBALL FOLKS https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1502015630966415361

During the pandemic, patients have said that they like telehealth, especially for behavioral-health treatment. But physicians say they are concerned about telehealth’s long-term sustainability. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/healthcare-systems-and-services/our-insights/patients-love-telehealth-physicians-are-not-so-sure

I'm not that much of a podcast person; I usually listen only when I'm driving. But among my favorites is On the Media, which does such an even-keeled evaluation of journalism and media coverage.

BROOKE GLADSTONE You've noted that Open-Source Intelligence, or OSINT, is altering the landscape of war, or at least the view from here. Can you tell me about how crowdsourced technology is having an impact?

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-media-the-fog-of-war

The upgraded website enables art lovers from around the world to analyze and marvel at the incredible frieze, which portrays a procession for the ancient festival called the Panathenaia. https://www.parthenonfrieze.gr/en/

I have been to two of these!

Explore a vast network of adventurous cheesemakers and aficionados, from a theme park devoted to all things cheese to a 22-million-year-old cave that ages Gruyere. https://www.atlasobscura.com/lists/best-places-for-cheese

“He did even his nothings in a strenuous way,” one of his closest friends said. “His was the brightest face, the lightest step, the pleasantest word.” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/03/07/the-crisis-that-nearly-cost-charles-dickens-his-career-robert-douglas-fairhursts-the-turning-point

Back in 2000, Sergey Brin appeared on an American game show called “To Tell The Truth," with Paula Poundstone as judge. Before she discovered cat photos on the Internet. https://www.businessinsider.com/sergey-brin-on-to-tell-the-truth-2013-12

In the Today I Learned department: 'This search for niche groups led Subaru to the 3rd rail of marketing: They discovered that lesbians loved their cars. ...Lesbians liked their dependability and size, and even the name “Subaru.” They were four times more likely than the average consumer to buy a Subaru.' http://priceonomics.com/how-an-ad-campaign-made-lesbians-fall-in-love-with/

The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust is pleased to confirm that the Endurance22 Expedition has located the wreck of Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship which has not been seen since it was crushed by the ice and sank in the Weddell Sea in 1915.

https://endurance22.org/endurance-is-found

An injured bald eagle learns how to fly again. https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/dr-cliff-dodo-injured-bald-eagle-flying-video

I have missed my chance to be a toad doctor. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/513343/jobs-no-longer-exist

The Fairchild factory operated until 1975 and employed more than 1,000 individuals at its peak, most of them Navajo women manufacturing integrated circuits. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/core-memory-weavers-navajo-apollo-raytheon-computer-nasa

I WROTE A THING!

You can’t get ahead unless you’re noticed. I asked several successful women to share the useful advice they received about promoting themselves. Their experiences may help women learn to toot their own horns. #IWD2022 #BreakTheBias
https://transmissionagency.com/en-gb/insights/self-promotion-skills-for-women-in-business

"Scientists are revving up to bring these now-extinct animals, and more, into the domain of augmented reality." https://www.cnet.com/news/extinct-ice-age-animals-will-be-digitally-resurrected-in-the-metaverse/

Scruggs says that burying someone in his coffin is “no more trouble than putting a fencepost in”. https://kottke.org/22/03/the-inventor-of-the-screw-in-coffin

Growing a mango tree from seed – one year time lapse
Your moment of zen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh_ukt8g53c

"By scouring key-card and mobile phone-access data in 10 key cities, we can see where office life is getting back to some semblance of normal (as in Texas) and where offices remain largely vacant (as in California)." https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-03-03/return-to-the-office-post-omicron-americans-prefer-to-be-anywhere-else

If you can't read this at first, try flipping it over https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-usb-came-to-be