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Magga Dora

Set in stone — the night trolls of software

There are software systems that are notorious for being hated by everyone. Their users hate them. They are hated by the people who pay for…

6 min readNov 12, 2021

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Set in stone — the night trolls of software

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Magga Dora

5–8 users walk into a usability test…

There’s a well-known truth in usability testing that in order to catch the vast majority of usability issues in a given software you only…

4 min readNov 5, 2021

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Magga Dora

Mennsk ráðgjöf — fyrsta árið

Það var aldrei planið hjá mér að stofna fyrirtæki. Það var heldur aldrei planið að vera sjálfstætt starfandi, en þegar ég var búin að vera…

3 min readDec 31, 2020

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Mennsk ráðgjöf — fyrsta árið

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Magga Dora

Occupational health and safety of software

At the advent of the industrial revolution people didn’t even consider the worker when setting up shop, often with catastrophic results…

3 min readSep 16, 2019

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Occupational health and safety of software

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Magga Dora

Design thinking vs your organization’s culture

Earlier I submitted that design thinking assumes a certain mindset. If the organization’s culture does not foster this mindset, there will…

5 min readFeb 15, 2019

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Magga Dora

The Culture of Design Thinking

Organizational culture is a way to describe the joint mindset of an organization’s employees. It dictates the way that they behave and…

4 min readFeb 7, 2019

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The Culture of Design Thinking

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Magga Dora

Tending the ego

Members of collaborative teams are expected to check their ego at the door because they cannot be effective collaborators if they are…

2 min readOct 5, 2017

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Magga Dora

Check your ego at the door

As much as I loathe impostor syndrome and all the energy it takes away from me (physically and cognitively) I think it is important to…

2 min readOct 5, 2017

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Magga Dora

Show your work

The idea that we are impostors is fascinating because it gives insight into the way that we think about how people operate and think.

2 min readOct 5, 2017

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Magga Dora

Who in their right mind would read a Medium post by me?

It seemed fitting that my first medium post would be about impostor syndrome. I have been staring at this space for so long convinced that…

4 min readJan 18, 2017

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Magga Dora

Magga Dora

Independent experience design leader with 20 years of experience working with large and small orgs. Puts the psy in computer science. The soft in software.

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