Too much information.
Finding structure in information-heavy products and systems.
I work on difficult digital problems where people, business, information and technology have to work together.
↓A difficult interface is often a symptom of something deeper. I look beyond the screen to understand the system, the workflow, the people using it and the problem that actually needs solving.
Finding structure in information-heavy products and systems.
Rethinking workflows that have become harder than the work itself.
Designing around roles, goals, constraints and competing priorities.
Working out where intelligence improves the experience and where it does not.
Understand the problem before deciding what the interface should become.
Turn strategy into useful flows, interactions, prototypes and digital products.
Use AI where it can meaningfully improve how people work, decide and interact.
Personal projects, independent explorations and experiments. Professional work that can be shared lives separately.
At 35, I registered 35thmedia.
I was going to build something.
I didn't.
Life happened instead. Fifteen years brought different places to call home, new experiences, changing technology, and plenty of complicated problems to solve.
Fifteen years later, I'm trying again.
Welcome to 50thmedia.
Room to question assumptions and look beyond the obvious answer.
Finding another path through the problem, not simply decorating the solution.
Using what technology makes possible with judgment and purpose.
Notes on UX strategy, AI, products, systems and what happens when they meet.
Frederic “Eric” Tubale is a UX strategist, product thinker and designer who works on complex digital systems.
Across industries and technologies, his work starts with understanding how things fit together: people, information, workflows, business needs and the technology underneath them.
Today, that curiosity increasingly includes AI and the new questions it creates for products and the people who use them.
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