If your concept of “progress” doesn’t put people at the center of it, is it even progress?
Source: I’m a Ludite (and so can you!)
Webring. A list of hand-crafted wikis and portfolios.
What I learned from taking a train across the US. “Here’s how US train travel went from excellent to mediocre.” A Vox video.
Multi-layered calendars. “Notes are just emails to your future self. Emails are just tasks. And tasks are just calendar events.”
How do I find new music now that I’m old and irrelevant?, a podcast episode about how “a normal person can find new stuff when they feel like their ears have rusted.”
Give it the Craigslist test. “If you’re designing a new product or service, give it the Craigslist test — start with low-fidelity options that see if people would love it even if it looked like Craigslist.”
Taken at the Natural History Museum.
I love that my Grandpa Norm told me to put a $10 in my coat pocket when I put it away for the season: ‘You’ll give yourself a surprise treat when it gets cold again!’ He’s been gone for over five years, but I still think of him when swapping coats.
Because red and green are complementary colors opposite one another on the color wheel, they’ve become the default colors for every designer who wants to represent opposites: true and false, high and low, stop and go. Inconveniently, these are also the two colors most likely to be mixed up by people with color vision deficiencies.
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Moe Lauchert’s photography is pretty amazing.