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by asoneth 6y ago
Using a touchscreen pre-iPhone usually felt like executing commands on a computer application. Using an iPhone felt like directly manipulating the underlying content. It was a qualitatively different experience that only superficially resem
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by asoneth 6y ago
The linked research is interesting and may be slightly more nuanced than your summary. From their executive summary: "The WOP system effectively captures soil carbon, offsetting a majority of the emissions related to beef production. T
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by asoneth 6y ago
In my experience, an individual who believes that success is the result of hard work will end up being more successful than a similar individual who believes that success is primarily due to starting conditions or luck. At the same time, go
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by asoneth 6y ago
I came to say the same thing. Ortholinear (grid) or staggered columnar keyboards would appeal to an extremely small but passionate group of ergo keyboard users. Given that the alternative for folks who use this kind of layout is to carry ar
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by asoneth 6y ago
I've heard from colleagues in the (US) medical industry that there are guidelines from the likes of AAMI and ECRI but few real "requirements". My second-hand understanding is that it's largely dependent on how much lever
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by asoneth 6y ago
In my experience it's sometimes a result of mismatched incentives resulting in a prisoner's dilemma rather than a lack of awareness or engineering ability. The designer responsible for an alarm wants to avoid being blamed for the
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by asoneth 6y ago
I don't have any insight into why the Chernobyl's operators disabled the alarms, but there is a very common effect known as "alarm fatigue" [1] whereby poorly-tuned alarm thresholds are ignored or actively sabotaged by o
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by asoneth 6y ago
I found myself in a similar situation. I'm not suggesting this is what's happening to you, but in case it helps: my mistake was that the light and sound were increasing too quickly and my body was turning away from the light and s
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by asoneth 6y ago
> What I see as critically important, as absolutely key to a vital, alive civilization is progress & exploration ... Which future? Any of them, all of them. Agreed. I don't like to live in the country of giants because their she
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by asoneth 6y ago
The goal makes sense but our current DST implementation of a sixty-minute jump twice a year seems unnecessarily large and disruptive. (And not just dealing with kids -- traffic accidents and heart attacks spike after.) Whereas if there was
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by asoneth 6y ago
This. Coordinating a mass schedule change is just an alternate implementation of a time shift. The primary benefit of mass schedule change is that it might make (some) programmers' lives easier. The disadvantage is that it makes everyo
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by asoneth 6y ago
I think it can be a challenge on both the supply and demand sides. On the supply side the profession has ballooned and subjectively it feels like a disproportionate amount of the growth has been folks who tend towards the "aesthetic&qu
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by asoneth 6y ago
At least when I was teaching intro HCI courses at Carnegie Mellon we did have lectures and discussions on dark patterns and the ethics of UX. Taking advantage of human psychology to manipulate people has been a problem in the field for a lo
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by asoneth 6y ago
I haven't heard that perspective before; the 'U' in "UX" stands for "User". I think the term "User Experience" picked up in the late 90s (e.g. Don Norman et al's CHI95 paper) when folks felt
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by asoneth 6y ago
I'm sorry, I would like to help but I can't figure out where you're getting tripped up since (to me) the various interpretations don't seem to differ much in meaning beyond the linguistic/semantic fuzziness that is
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by asoneth 6y ago
Technically it would have been more precise to define "Value Proposition" as "(The result of) a reductive process in the early stages of product definition that...". Having said that, this kind of syndoche where a proces
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by asoneth 6y ago
I definitely agree with the sentiment. Note that there has been debate in the field about the term "user" for decades. Some people object because it is ambiguous, some because it reduces people to their interaction with your softw
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by asoneth 6y ago
I work in UX so I'm poorly equipped to objectively evaluate whether the field's jargon is any better or worse than any other field. But my impression is that UX jargon is usually pretty self-explanatory but sometimes unnecessary e
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by asoneth 6y ago
> I suspect designers deliberately harm UX in an attempt to drive away unprofitable power users. You might be partly right. I mean, I've worked in UX for more than a decade and I've never met anyone who did this deliberately. B