mastodon 4.7.3Toots locally foraged on unceded Duwamish lands. Design "leader" at Cisco. Sometimes writer. A11y, UX, IA. ᏣᎳᎩ. 🌮. Protect trans kids. TERFs can take a hike.
This week on Grand Web Designs:
Kevin McCloud: "It's March now, and we've returned to Nielsen-Norman. (looks around) Little has changed in the last 6 months."
Jakob Nielsen: "We've had issues with the Generative UI. When we first installed it, it immediately leveled everything within a 500 meter radius to make it 'accessible.'"
KM: "How's the budget?"
JN: "We're on track, I think. We've spent $3.5M now"
KM: "Wasn't your budget $350k?"
JN: "Good heuristic website design takes time, KEVIN."
I hear all these tech folks continue to point to Apple as a design-led org they want to imitate, then they proceed to push to released half-baked ideas out as quickly as possible for solutions to problems no one really has.
Meanwhile, Apple is notorious for not shipping before it’s ready and actually being behind the innovation curve. “We had that on Android/Windows years ago” is a common refrain, and yet Apple does just fine getting the design right first.
$12-14M on Jesus “He gets us” Super Bowl commercials that could have gone to clothing the naked, feeding the hungry, or buying another politician….
14 months since I pulled the plug on my Twitter account:
Mastodon — if it weren’t for hashtag subscriptions it would be low activity
Threads — More activity, but also it’s Meta and you can’t get that smell out of it
Bluesky — dead, mostly
Still, all are better than whatever Twitter has devolved to
Woody Guthrie once said you must "wake up and fight" but I think he forgot to insert "drink coffee/tea" in there
1993 C.R.E.A.M. — Cash Rules Everything Around Me
2024 C.R.E.A.M. — Capitalism Ruins Everything Around Me
I guess I need to get back to writing about design.
"The Marvels posts worst ever Marvel opening" I'm sure all the Ben Shapiro stans will be frothing about it, but let's be honest: We're drowning in Marvel/DC everything and I think we all want something different.
It's a bit, so I'd like to say the following:
Queso.
“Radical feminists” are as feminist as a certain defunct German political party was Socialist.
Happy All Saints Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPXqkjpXZ_k
For those who celebrate, when does the Christmas season start?