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there is a difference between silos and domains. It’s great for domains to be separated, and independently well-defined. The silos I have seen cause problems are between organizati…

The proper identifier for a rarely used feature is a WORD .

Have you ever run user tests though?

"tiny little cute icons" is already a big problem in UX. Every designer should be testing the success rates of "little icons" against textual labels. If you have to have an animate…

Tiny inscrutable icons are a terrible design fad. The solution isn't "yet another free icon collection"

Yeah, "Designers" destroyed latency in UX with animation, transitions, and other such noise.

What frequency band are you using? ISM is the only one that permits store-and-forward / automatic operation, as the gotenna people found. You say a few miles per node - I am having…

How about the words "body fat" ?

And, these icons adhere to international standards. They are not just "made up" to suit a designer's whim.

Turns out "designers" are not very creative or thoughtful, and mostly copy "trends"

The Play button is internationally standardized in ISO/IEC 18035, as well. Using your own icons confuses users.

If you're designing your own icons, you already failed. But, masturbation is pleasurable. I wonder if this "designer" realizes that the car dashboard icons are internationally stan…

Have you used Airbnb's apps? They're the worst example of "design" over actual usability.

Why? To tell the user where there mouse pointer is? Is that a problem? Or are you forcing people to scrub over every element on the screen to "discover" instead of it being visible…

They had to add settings to turn that stuff off because it makes people woozy. "cute" design with no user goal has collateral damage.

I disagree. In no way does it add to the communication or understanding of the numbers. It just makes it take longer for them to appear.

If people have to mouse over things to see what to click, you already failed. We call that "mystery meat" And the constant flashing of colors and backgrounds all over the page as y…

> sort of adds a magic to the application. I call that design masturbation. Where a designer goes into a room alone and "pleases themselves"

Ugh. These do not "delight" me whatsoever.

Animation is more of a tool to stroke "designer" egos than it is useful. Most animations offer zero usability improvement, while forcing the user to spend battery rendering dozens …

Design masturbation noise. Please, just let me turn off animation and read the copy. I don't want my device draining its battery rendering hundreds of frames of BS to satisfy your …

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It's not a big deal now that embedded machines with a half a gig of RAM/multicore processors and open-source postscript rendering software is common, but postscript traditionally c…

Cool, they'll probably just park down the street, shifting the burden to other people and infrastructure. Another externality the developers can exploit...

> That’s why five years ago, my co-founder Alex and I started a company to prove that holographic displays were possible This is spam