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I once lectured to an empty auditorium. Two people showed up by mistake. After five minutes, they tiptoed out.
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“New taxonomies for the theme and plugin directories ... will help users more quickly ascertain the purpose of the extensions they are considering.”
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☞ Some of our favorite typefaces & designers get their due in a beautiful, informative Severance wiki about the series’s typographic design—including where to get the typefaces. Hat tip: ℅ .
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If you like typography and Severance (which you should, because it’s amazing), this is the page for you: severance.wiki/typography
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☞ “When you’re hosting a social network, it’s your responsibility to provide a safe and healthy environment.”
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You may wonder how Elon Musk can be so consistently hilarious. One key technique he uses is to come up with prospective jokes, ask his employees if they're funny, and then fire anyone who says no.
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☞ “When you’re hosting a social network, it’s your responsibility to provide a safe and healthy environment.”
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Really interesting thread about products from start-ups that go bust. It gets especially shocking when these start-ups build implants for humans that are then no longer maintained and reside inside the body of someone.
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The #startup world's dirty not-so-secret: most startups fail. Startups are risky and so investors place bets on lots of startups and fold the ones that don't show promise, which sucks for the company employees, but also for the users who depend on the company's products. 1/
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The #startup world's dirty not-so-secret: most startups fail. Startups are risky and so investors place bets on lots of startups and fold the ones that don't show promise, which sucks for the company employees, but also for the users who depend on the company's products. 1/
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Angelo Badalamenti (1937—2022). One of the greatest composers of all time, best known for his collaborations with David Lynch, has passed away at the age of 85. Here he is explaining how he created the music for 'Twin Peaks'
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In Fall 2011 I was 2 yrs out of college and had just been passed over for a job, again. I ended up blogging about it, which 🐐shared on his site. It was the highlight of my year. 2011 Blake wouldn’t believe me if I told him what we’re doing now.
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Man goes to doctor, says woke mind virus must be defeated. Doctor says treatment is simple, great clown Dave Chappelle is in town tonight, go and see him. Man bursts into tears, says, but doctor, I am elon musk
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“A massive step in a decades-long quest to unleash an infinite source of clean energy that could help end dependence on fossil fuels.”
cnn.com/2022/12/12/pol #climate #science #energy #fusion
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Do you have the tools to support user personalization? You do now! Introducing the Personalization Pyramid, a new framework for designing from user data.
alistapart.com/article/person #ux #design #ProductDesign #webdesign #UXdesign
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Remembering McCoy Tyner, born on this day in 1938 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Here he is performing "Naima" with the John Coltrane Quartet in 1965.
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Lee Lorenz, cartoonist & cartoon editor who over 40 years at The New Yorker introduced illustrators like Roz Chast and Jack Ziegler while publishing droll covers and some 1,800 cartoons in the magazine himself, died Thursday at his home in Norwalk, Conn.
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"I think that the singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply. In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: a man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself."
ROD SERLING, LA Times, 1967
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‘The police came because of the sea of red gore’: unseen photos from the set of The Shining
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Only 2 people came to my author signing yesterday, so I was pretty bummed about it. Especially as 37 people responded "going" to the event. Kind of upset, honestly, and a little embarrassed.
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♛ New article in A List Apart!
A designer-centric model for human-centered personalization programs.
“Personalization Pyramid: A Framework for Designing with User Data,” by & .
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Routine PSA: Avoiding the word "user" in your discussions about research participants, actual/potential *users*, or those studying them doesn't actually make your work more ethical.
At minimum, there should be a 1:1 ratio of word gymnastics with actual changes to your practice.
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So apparently selling a wedding cake to an LGBTQ couple is participating in the marriage, but selling a gun to a shooter isn't participating in the crime.
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Thanks to everyone who spoke up, the link tax is not in the military budget. Let's make sure it doesn't creep into any other end-of-year legislation!
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Take your UX & front-end skills to the next level!
Dive into advanced CSS, container queries, web components, web platform features, SEO as UX, and more—taught by 15 top design/dev experts.
aneventapart.com/event/san-fran #AEASF
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♛ Wonderful interview with the late, colossally great art director George Lois by .
the-agency-review.com/lois/
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Speaking of checking your scripts, be wary about what you have baked into your Javascript. “Evergreen” browsers aren’t always as evergreen as you think, and users get slashed by our obsession with the cutting edge.
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The ever brilliant Cory lays it out for us in another must read. ‘The urinary tract infection business-model’ by
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“Nothing was coming down the hallway! Nothing was scratching at the wood paneling! Nothing had seized the gavel in bony fingers and was tapping, tapping, tapping, louder and louder, until it drowned out even the beating of his heart!”
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I just want to make a few things clear:
The Holocaust happened.
Hitler was a demonic figure.
And instead of giving it a platform, our political leaders should be calling out and rejecting antisemitism wherever it hides.
Silence is complicity.
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Learn the fundamentals of advocating for accessibility from in our latest article written by ⤵️
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♛ The design team behind ’s visual identity share how they pulled off #SpotifyWrapped 2022. Hat tip: .
itsnicethat.com/features/spoti #GraphicDesign #brand #marketing
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Thanks Your Old Droog for spending 1,440 minutes with me in 2022. I couldn’t stop listening to Jew Tang Forever (The Reprise). #SpotifyWrapped
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