We live in a world with too much stuff. As someone who designs products, I’m constantly experiencing an existential crisis about the things we create as a profession — both digital and industrial.
https://medium.com/swlh/the-10-commandments-of-good-products-d1d0a97b30ee
Pre-programmed responses to emails have their place, but it seems Gmail essentially is having robots teach us to reply in ways that aren’t that human-like, missing the real point of conversation.
https://medium.com/s/story/please-resist-googles-attempts-to-make-you-more-robotlike-2f5babd786aa
There was a time, about a decade ago, when for a brief moment I thought Facebook would become the platform underpinning the open internet. Such a platform was desperately needed — the open web was a wonderful but messy place that lacked structure and discipline.
https://medium.com/newco/maybe-facebook-should-abandon-the-news-feed-altogether-56bd7afbd1e3
Maybe Facebook Should Abandon the News Feed Altogether.
https://ift.tt/2wSelVy
If you’ve ever worked on an app, you can only dream of that feeling of pure joy when you open the App Store and see your app featured on the homepage.
By Elisa Goyeneche & Josefina Blattmann. Whether we are playing a video game on our smartphone, watching a movie at the cinema or about to ride Space Mountain, we are dealing with immersive experiences.
This article has a companion: Have An Idea: Here’s How To Start. It also has an original from 2011 — How To Explain An Idea: A Mega Post. Since I originally wrote this in 2011, the robots came. Some of them are starting to have ideas.
Kyle here. Spent the week putting a presentation together. A few quick notes from that: I love making presentations. I passionately believe it’s one of the main things I am paid to do and take pride in it.
