On my Wish List: When taking public transportation,
@GoogleMaps
would alert me a stop or two before reaching my destination, instead of me having to repeatedly check how close I was.
#ux
#design
#wish
#sundaymorning
#Confession
: My MacBook is always muted, but at least once a day, I unmute, empty the trash, and mute again. That trash emptying sound effect... it's kinda my
#fetish
.
Running
#StableDiffusion
locally on my phone is like I stepped through a wormhole into the future and sneaked a peak.
This is the first time in years that I feel “if only the iPhone was faster.”
The
#Expense
app by
@xhacker
has a very unique icon. It resembles the UI design so closely that the cross-fade effect when closing seems so seamless!
#icons
#design
#UI
Almost every month I have to update the
#JAVA
run-time. And every time this brings back memories of the ugly software of the 90s and 2000s.
#DeleteJAVA
is a hashtag I am looking forward to!
Apple’s phone support asks you to press 1 if you don’t want the call to be recorded, and then gives you three options of waiting music, or silence.
Why isn’t everyone doing this?
A blast from the past:
@mikebutcher
in 2012 on
@Facebook
being accused of reading user text messages: "the privacy debate around the smartphone is entering the mainstream consciousness."
#CambridgeAnalytics
A company literally just dropped tens of thousands of $ worth of crypto coins from these balloons, calling it the first-ever live “air drop”
#token2049
Am I the only one who copies a new password from the password generator because you don't trust that it will prompt you to save the password you just used to create your account?
With
@Telegram
raising almost a billion dollars in pre-ICO, perhaps
@Wikimedia
should follow suite, and raise enough money so they’d stop the donation ads for at least 20 years!
#Wikipedia
#ads
#ICO
Dark design patterns and
@Medium
: you can sign-in with e-mail, but not sign-up with e-mail. To do that, use the sign-in form with your unregistered e-mail and it will begin the registration process!
#DontBeEvil
#DataLust
#DarkPatterns
TLDR: "[It] saves the company millions of dollars a year as foundries move towards impression-based licensing for their typefaces in many digital advertising spaces."
#Design
#Fonts
#Typefaces
Today’s
#design
inspiration is not from
@dribbble
or
@Behance
, but from a TV infomercial!. The design looks outdated, but the color-based UI wins over shiny metallic Bluetooth-enabled fancy devices.
Oh, my favorite line in "The Founder" was made up!
#FactCheck
#McDonalds
“I am telling you, McDonald’s can be the new American church, feeding bodies and feeding souls. And it ain’t just open on Sundays, boys. It’s open seven days a week.”
Fascinated that
@Motiv
were actually able to pull the Ring off, and love the Sizing Kit idea. Tempted to try it, except I no longer see much value in an always-on fitness tracker.
#fitness
#data