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Jim Lentz
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Consilient Design

Idiot Lights

You figure it out.

4 min readOct 26, 2023

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Idiot Lights

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Jim Lentz
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Consilient Design

Overloading and Mental Models

User research and design has made much ado about mental models since at least the early 1980s. It is a compelling concept. If we understand…

5 min readJun 5, 2022

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A house key being used to open a letter.

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Jim Lentz
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Consilient Design

Habits versus Mental Models

Mental models become necessary when designs fail us.

6 min readJun 2, 2022

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Habits versus Mental Models

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Jim Lentz
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Consilient Design

Experience Obsolescence

Jim Lentz and Mark Marrara

13 min readJan 31, 2022

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An old television sitting in a field.

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Jim Lentz
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Consilient Design

UX focus limits design thinking

Some musings about user intention and user experience. There is more to the human-machine relationship than experience design

4 min readDec 20, 2021

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A UX design sketch template

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Jim Lentz
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Consilient Design

Experience design: a twisted history

Jim Lentz and Mark Marrara

12 min readOct 27, 2021

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Experience design: a twisted history

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Jim Lentz
in
Consilient Design

Journey Maps to Hell and Back

a critical survey

12 min readJul 8, 2021

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Journey Maps to Hell and Back

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Jim Lentz
in
Consilient Design

Toward Unifying UXD and JTBD

authors: Mark Marrara and James Lentz

13 min readJul 8, 2021

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Toward Unifying UXD and JTBD

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Jim Lentz
in
Consilient Design

Why Consilience?

Consilience is about the unity of knowledge. What does such a heady topic have to do with design?

3 min readJun 19, 2021

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Jim Lentz
in
Consilient Design

Personas - Reconsidered

authors: James Lentz and Mark Marrara

26 min readMay 13, 2021

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Personas - Reconsidered

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Jim Lentz

Jim Lentz

UX research and design psychologist with interests in the relationship between humans and society, decision making, creativity and philosophy.

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