doctornoble

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by doctornoble 6mo ago
I knew a bunch of folks from 18F and the USWDS team. You could not find a more capable team of designers, developers and true user experience professionals. They cared about the users and they cared about good design.
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by doctornoble 7mo ago
Same. It was a bit less literal in mine, more like “how do you handle situations where key stakeholders and one in particular have certain demands”
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by doctornoble 10mo ago
Not to dismiss the X-files team, but 16:9 was already around when they started. Just not in the states. Japan started getting 16:9 CRTs in the early 90s, Europe followed in the mid 90s. America lagged another half decade and effectively ski
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by doctornoble 11mo ago
I don’t think that’s unintentional or undesired
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by doctornoble 2y ago
What a reductive position.
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by doctornoble 2y ago
Yeah, I’ve been waiting for this for years and not optimistic it’s “near”. The polyfill is too heavy and the services we deal with seem to cover the whole range of dates and times. Julian, epoch, ISO-8601.
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by doctornoble 2y ago
Exocet had to be the most popular font of the mid-90s for anything vaguely occult/religious/horror/sci-fi/fantasy
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by doctornoble 3y ago
So the most like the disruptor of the mobile duopoly of Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS are Google’s Chrome and Apple’s Safari. Got it.
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by doctornoble 3y ago
Perhaps Yum Brands has the data to back this up, but it seems quite a silly response that feels more political/ideological than based on sound economics. BIL was COO of a pizza chain. The cost for a large pizza was around $1.50 - even
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by doctornoble 3y ago
Penpot is pretty great even in production environments. It hews much closer to web standards in for things like layout (flexbox and grid), supports working completely offline and doesn’t use a proprietary file format. What they don’t have i
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by doctornoble 3y ago
Dropbox was fine until they decided they wanted to be more than file syncing. Their app is a terrible resource hog that slows my computer to a crawl. I finally had enough and deleted their app and use Panic’s Transmit to interact Dropbox.
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by doctornoble 3y ago
You can. The Vision Pro supports a primary user that retains settings/user account/AppleID and a secondary user with gets a “guest” account that resets.
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by doctornoble 4y ago
This really seems like the opposite direction auto manufacturers should be taking. Lean in hard to a common API design for displays and negotiate with Apple/Google on theming (like Apple Watch where some companies get custom watch face
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by doctornoble 4y ago
If I recall it being right on the creek that led to the ocean probably exacerbated the environmental issues
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by doctornoble 5y ago
Anecdotally I did. Well for that and Dune - and I’ll probably keep it, I was surprised and impressed with the selection.
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by doctornoble 5y ago
WebM support has been added to Safari 15