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Chris Oliver

@chrisoliver@indieweb.social

Service designer interested in #movies and #TV, #gaming, #tech, and #photography | Creator of the Monster List of UX Books | he/him | #ServiceDesign #UserResearch #CX #UX #design #accessibility #CivicTech

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93 Following

22 Posts

Joined July 17, 2025

Website:

https://chrisoliver.co

Social Links:

https://linksta.cc/@chrisoliver

The Monster List of UX Books:

https://colvr.co/uxbks

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Chris Oliver @chrisoliver@indieweb.social · Jul 23, 2026

Replying to @paninid@mastodon.world

@paninid@mastodon.world https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technofeudalism

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Chris Oliver @chrisoliver@indieweb.social · Jul 07, 2026

“Putting an early-career researcher on a low [research]-adoption product is not a development opportunity. It is a setup for burnout that leadership will eventually misread as a performance problem. Matching researcher profile to team maturity is how you prevent that, and how you protect research credibility at the same time.”

#UserResearch #UX #design

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ras-research-resource-allocation/

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Chris Oliver @chrisoliver@indieweb.social · Jul 02, 2026

The Recommendation-Adoption Score for tracking the adoption of user research recommendations:
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/recommendation-adoption-score/

#UserResearch #UX #design

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Chris Oliver @chrisoliver@indieweb.social · Jun 27, 2026

Replying to @chrisoliver@indieweb.social

@pluralistic@mamot.fr well, this unexpectedly blew up, and here I am without a Soundcloud. If you're a designer or researcher, though, you can check out my Monster List of UX Books on Airtable: https://colvr.co/uxbks

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Chris Oliver @chrisoliver@indieweb.social · Jun 27, 2026

Replying to @csstrowbridge@mastodon.social

@csstrowbridge@mastodon.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr sadly, but consumers should be giving the right to have their digital purchases be irrevocable and to freely move digital media between platforms.

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Chris Oliver @chrisoliver@indieweb.social · Jun 27, 2026

Replying to @RealGene@hachyderm.io

@RealGene@hachyderm.io @pluralistic@mamot.fr cutting costs has no limits. They’re just trying to keep their business “sustainable” /s

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Chris Oliver @chrisoliver@indieweb.social · Jun 27, 2026

Replying to @RupertReynolds@hachyderm.io

@RupertReynolds@hachyderm.io @chefx@defcon.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr we need laws that allow consumers to transfer all their DRM-laden digital media from one platform to another and makes digital purchases irrevocable.

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Chris Oliver @chrisoliver@indieweb.social · Jun 27, 2026

Replying to @blaubeer@mastodon.social

@blaubeer@mastodon.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr also “play has no limits” but I guess movies do…

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Chris Oliver @chrisoliver@indieweb.social · Jun 27, 2026

Boosted by

Trending Bot @trending@homestead.social

This is why @pluralistic@mamot.fr is always preaching about #DRM-free digital media and software. Sony is deleting over 500 movies customers paid for through the PlayStation Store because they don’t want to renew their license with Studio Canal. #enshittification

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Chris Oliver @chrisoliver@indieweb.social · Jun 25, 2026

Wow. I beat my record again.

#CoralClimber #Openvibe

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Chris Oliver @chrisoliver@indieweb.social · Jun 24, 2026

“We hope stakeholders will act. We hope they will prioritize the right things. We hope the evidence will be enough. But if you are relying on hope, you are setting yourself up to be fooled.”

#UserResearch #DesignResearch #UXDesign #design
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/research-recommendation-breakage/

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Chris Oliver @chrisoliver@indieweb.social · Jun 18, 2026

This is way too accurate.

Promo for Lou Downe's new book, Bad Services: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=padhecMK3ck

#ServiceDesign #CustomerExperience #CXDesign #design

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Chris Oliver @chrisoliver@indieweb.social · Jun 16, 2026

Replying to @Katika@chaos.social

@johnnythan@tuebingen.network @Katika@chaos.social Bluesky is probably boring if you end up on a lot of blocklists.

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Chris Oliver @chrisoliver@indieweb.social · May 26, 2026

@newsmast@backend.newsmast.org please remove my account and posts from your feed

backend.newsmast.org

Newsmast Foundation (@newsmast@newsmast.social) - Newsmast

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Chris Oliver @chrisoliver@indieweb.social · May 26, 2026

RE: @eclectech@things.uk

These are some of the worst-written choices for a survey question I’ve ever seen. It seems like the person who wrote this doesn’t know how to write survey questions but also wanted to be deliberately misleading so they can get the kind of answers they want.

#SurveyDesign #FormDesign #SurveyResearch #research

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Chris Oliver @chrisoliver@indieweb.social · May 22, 2026

Replying to @chrisoliver@indieweb.social

@pluralistic@mamot.fr You can listen to the first hour of the audiobook here: https://archive.org/details/reverse-centaur-audio-sample

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Chris Oliver @chrisoliver@indieweb.social · May 22, 2026

I just backed @pluralistic@mamot.fr 's new book "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" on Kickstarter.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/the-reverse-centaurs-guide-to-life-after-ai

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr) - Mamot - Le Mastodon de La Quadrature du Net

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Chris Oliver @chrisoliver@indieweb.social · May 02, 2026

Replying to @chrisoliver@indieweb.social

Edit: I just saw your other post about running out of funds to pay people (I had gotten the impression you were a team of one and didn’t realize you were paying people to work on these projects) and started donating.

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Chris Oliver @chrisoliver@indieweb.social · May 02, 2026

Replying to @dansup@mastodon.social

I’ve said this before, but you need to get some people to help you with both projects, so that development of one isn’t stalled while you’re working on the other.

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Chris Oliver @chrisoliver@indieweb.social · Apr 28, 2026

Replying to @andy@dotgr.id

I think this is what @pluralistic@mamot.fr calls reverse centaurs. https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-09-11-vulgar-thatcherism-there-is-an-alternative-f1428b42a8fd

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Chris Oliver @chrisoliver@indieweb.social · Apr 22, 2026

Replying to @trixter@retro.pizza

Link has entered the chat

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Chris Oliver @chrisoliver@indieweb.social · Oct 20, 2025

Replying to @PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social

Is this hosted on AWS? I can’t get the link to open.

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Remote instance

indieweb.social

Open on original server

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