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jadden picardal

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highlights — 30

  • Introducing odd numbers, like a 5pt base, into spatial rules can make it difficult to center elements without splitting pixels.
    Spacing, grids, and layouts
  • Futurism and literal transparency were the rule, as a comfortable, colorful and stylish companion in daily life.
    The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics | Hackaday
  • With modern day consumer electronics having become incredibly dull due to the death of industrial design, it would seem that us human mammals are seeking out our own enrichment activities, modern design sensibilities be damned.
    The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics | Hackaday
  • The slab phone has thus become the user interface, with that part of industrial design often outsourced to some third-party mobile app developer.
    The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics | Hackaday
  • All inputs and any remaining controls are now hidden on the back where reaching them is borderline impossible after installation, never mind if you mounted it on a wall. You’re not supposed to find the TV visually appealing, or marvel at the easy user interface, just consume whatever content is displayed on the bezel-less screen.
    The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics | Hackaday
  • Once recognition came through phones and smartphones, the need to invest so much energy into appearance diminished.
    Yamanba Gal
  • “We were always searching for new, stimulating motifs. clothing from other countries, masks, and cosmetics inspired us. Our understanding was shallow at the time, but the sense of style was extraordinary,”
    Yamanba Gal
  • “Every day felt like going into a serious competition on Shibuya’s Center Street. Outsiders might have thought we looked the same, but each of us was determined to avoid duplication,” she said. “We did not aim for grotesque forms. They emerged naturally from experimenting with makeup. For us, to push things to the extreme was the same as being beautiful.”
    Yamanba Gal
  • Most histories of computing are situated in Bletchley Park, Geneva, Palo Alto, and Boston; most art histories, in New York and London. But Electric Dreams insisted on an international approach—and, in doing so, shed light on the vital work happening in places like Zagreb.
    The Afterlives of Computer Art
  • “The example I like to give is back in the days of Roman numerals, basic multiplication was considered this incredibly technical concept that only official mathematicians could handle,” he continues. “But then once Arabic numerals came around, you could actually do arithmetic on paper, and we found that 7-year-olds can understand multiplication. It’s not that multiplication itself was difficult. It was just that the representation of numbers — the interface — was wrong.”
    The Utopian UI Architect. An ex-Apple interface designer’s… | by John Pavlus | re:form | Medium
  • I call this technology Pictures Under Glass. Pictures Under Glass sacrifice all the tactile richness of working with our hands, offering instead a hokey visual facade.
    A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
  • That is, a tool converts what we can do into what we want to do. A great tool is designed to fit both sides.
    A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
  • This matters, because visions matter. Visions give people a direction and inspire people to act, and a group of inspired people is the most powerful force in the world.
    A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
  • This is exactly why doing the boring work more consistently is actually a competitive advantage.
    Learning by Observation
  • After his investigation of the sunfish Agassiz’s student wrote, “I had learned the art of comparing objects.” How does this tooth compare to the one next to it? How does this scale compare to the one on the opposite side? How does the symmetry of the bottom half of the fish compare to the top half?
    Learning by Observation
  • What kind of motion defines us?'"
    How to do motion-first branding better | Creative Boom
  • That’s how we make games at Nintendo: we get the fundamentals solid first, then do as much with that core concept as our time and ambition will allow. As for the courses and enemies, those actually came at the very end. They were done in a single burst of energy, just thrown together, almost.”
    How Video Games Inspire Great UX – Scott Jenson
  • I think that’s what scares me the most. That maybe I have been chasing something that doesn’t exist. That maybe love, the way I have imagined it, is just a story I made up to fill the gaps.
    The Weight of Wanting Love - by Shay ⭐️ - Notes on Being
  • The Dropbox redesigned brand website is a good example of motion used right. It reminds me of a quote by Emil Kowalski.
    What is the purpose of motion?
  • Newton was conceived on an airplane.
    Remembering the Apple Newton's Prophetic Failure and Lasting Impact | WIRED
  • consider information first and then the interface as the medium through which to interact with information second.
    Why Do We Interface? — Information
  • you will not shame us for seeing value in the practice of empathizing with people through this work. there is so much to hate in this world. so much to mourn. it is a miracle that my heart still has the capacity to love; you will not strip me of what little joy i have sequestered for myself for the sake of my sanity. you cannot have our art. pick up a book. it just might free you from all that misery you feel.
    in defense of pretension. - by ayan artan - rent free.
  • convenience. how much it has stolen from us. we don’t just want more than we ever have, not only do we consume mindlessly like never before but now we want everything to be easy. we want that package to be here tomorrow, never mind that that sweater is being shipped from the other side of the world. we have the same relationship to information. i’m currently putting together my proposal for a PHD and i’d almost forgotten how satisfying falling down research rabbit holes are. it isn’t important to just read and learn, it’s important to stretch beyond our comfort. seek out that which is hard. wh…
    in defense of pretension. - by ayan artan - rent free.
  • can you remember the last time you committed something to memory? in school we would inhale textbooks and pass it off as ‘learning’, in truth only copy and pasting passages on myosis and the Weimar republic so that we could pass our exams- but even empty, shallow remembrance has died. even the intimate act of remembering someone’s phone number has become a lost art.
    in defense of pretension. - by ayan artan - rent free.
  • we are a people intent on running away from ourselves. more scrolling, more apps, more ten second videos masquerading as ‘information’. shrink into yourself. yes, like that. google that word because you can’t even remember the last time you saw a physical dictionary, and watch as we condition you to accept the first AI aided summary as a definition. watch the machines we are draining the world’s resources for get smarter as you get dumber.
    in defense of pretension. - by ayan artan - rent free.
  • if you remove empathy and open-mindedness- the two traits i would argue art alone can teach us- from the way medicine is practiced or policy is passed, what are we left with? it was cold, reasonable ‘rationalism’ that gave us slavery and has allowed the perpetuating of genocides the world over. the removal of humanness from our thinking has resulted in the acceptance of xenophobia . it was cold, selective rationalism that allowed europeans to experiment on african patients.
    in defense of pretension. - by ayan artan - rent free.
  • everywhere you look, resentment towards anything that would allow us to exercise our minds or build us up as people capable of critical thinking is growing.
    in defense of pretension. - by ayan artan - rent free.
  • The Romans understood this, and that’s why they banned gatherings of more than 150 people, as Barbara Ehrenreich wrote in her sublime book Dancing In The Streets: A History Of Collective Joy
    On getting over imposter syndrome – The Creative Independent
  • Sensitive people who are also creators will naturally question themselves. It’s partly what makes the work good. Questioning yourself means that you’re digging deep, looking for what you believe to be true. This is the first step in creating art of any kind, and it requires revealing something of yourself. For most people, this is scary because we don’t know how our true selves will be received, and we’re scared because there’s often a gap between what’s inside and what we present outside.
    On getting over imposter syndrome – The Creative Independent
  • It turns out that we like people the best when they respond to us the fastest––so fast (mere milliseconds!) that they must be formulating their reply long before we finish our turn. Abundant affordances allow for this rapid-fire rapport, each utterance offering an obvious opportunity to respond
    Good conversations have lots of doorknobs