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Remember that truly stellar bar chart you saw a few months ago? Truthfully, no one else does either, and that’s a problem for those of us in the business of communicating data with impact.

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We often describe chart design as a dichotomous process of selecting specific charts for specific purposes: Lines describe change over time, bars compare quantities, histograms or box plots illustrate distributions, and so on. Groupings like these that cluster charts according to characteristics or usage are broadly referred to as visualization taxonomies.

A lot of this might sound a lot like petty schadenfreude, but seeing other people screw up and having to deal with the consequences has honestly cheered me up immensely. Think of it like watching an America’s Funniest Home Videos compilation — there’s just no way you’re coming out feeling at least a little bit happier after watching people wipe out (harmlessly). Depression isn’t a disease with a logical way to approach it. If petty schadenfreude and UX studies get through to my brain, I will take that as a win.

After identifying something in need of improvement, unfortunately we still have to actually put the effort into improving it. No matter the context, motivation is intensely personal and illogical. Alas, I still haven’t found a surefire way to bamboozle my brain into tapping into this and I may never find one. At least I now know that I’m not alone in the struggle bus.

I’m still fighting an uphill battle to improve myself every day. I’ll observe a peculiar behavior of mine and root-cause-analysis it and disappointingly find that the root is old self-hatred caused by depression yet again. My stomach always drops a little upon realizing this (“I thought I was over this already”). But regardless of what I find, I’ve firmly decided that it’s time for me to stop listening to my depression monster and break out of that self-victim bubble.

Of course, many people in America remember Jared’s scandal revealed five years ago: he got convicted in a federal court for possessing child pornography and traveling to pay for sex with minors. He was sentenced to 15 years and 8 months in federal prison.

If you are struggling with your own mental illness, I hope that reading this inspires you to keep on fighting. A lot of this comes down to your own tank of energy/willpower, so please take care of yourself during this (likely) more lonely holiday season and don’t be afraid to lean on any available resources when needed.

It’s way too easy to pressure ourselves into situations with no room for error, and then beat ourselves up when it happens. True, our stupid user judgement may be the final tipping point to a lot of domino-effect mistakes. However, fundamentally we are simply not set up for success, and neither do we set ourselves up for success. The fact that UX as a field exists is a testament to that truth.

Very often it can happen that what we thought was our genuine self-projection (i.e. the product of our genuine and true desires) is nothing but the plot society has built for us. As discussed at the beginning: movies, social media, the people we frequent etc. all contribute dramatically to building people’s egos, goals, self-projections. And unfortunately many times as a result we project an image that doesn’t really belong to us and when we reach such image we feel empty, lost and in turn unhappy — just the opposite of what we thought would have happened.

How is it possible that when we finally match the image that for so long we thought was the link to our long-dreamt happiness we feel a sense of hopelessness and disappointment instead?

It’s important to note that it’s less expensive to open a Subway storefront than a McDonalds or Burger King. Regardless, Jared played a big role — in 2013, he was worth an estimated $15 million.

Situation A: we feel happy as that self-projection was a genuine one, i.e. matching that image that we had set for our self is really what makes us happy. Congrats! You have hit the jackpot! But unfortunately for most people this is not going to last. As you celebrate your happiness your mind is starting already to build a new self-projection and you will soon start chasing it again.

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