One thing living outside the US has taught me is that the term “third world” is totally meaningless, also “developing world” and “developed world” are equally meaningless. Q: So how do you describe the difference between US, Europe and rest of the world? A: Why do you want to?
Was gonna spend some serious effort redesigning the UI to look better and work better but instead I think I’m just gonna invert the colors and launch our new dark mode.
“Advertisements generally work on the principle of creating in us a feeling that we lack something and then providing the means to fill it. The writer David Foster Wallace describes their goal as to ‘create an anxiety relievable by purchase’. — Derren Brown, Happy.
true artificial intelligence is impossible and will never exist, because to achieve it you _must_ have a complete understanding of how the brain works and we will never achieve that. fight me.
There’s a lot of “design for developer” materials but I found “Refactoring UI” https://refactoringui.com was the one where it made me really want to start designing things because I knew what I was doing.
2019 is the year I finally get serious about Lean. Not the production method, but the drink with jolly ranchers and codeine. I trust Lil Wayne knows what’s good for me.
I’ve always been jealous of designers because it’s so easy for them to show off their work, also they don’t have the awkwardness of, “Come check out my really cool backend.”