Author: Brian Dys
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Beware the Pixel Police
I saw what you did there. The padding between form fields is 24 pixels. Please remove 8 pixels from that gap. Make sure to use the components provided. Chief of Pixel Police Well… yeah… it’s your fault. Components are ready-built — why can’t you just use it with all its pre-built goodnes. Why take matters…
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Pause, take a deep breath
First: stop. Pause. Take a deep breath. Look around. What do you notice? Are you experiencing this moment with someone else? Remember that this moment only comes once. Photography can be part of a beautiful experience. Just don’t let it be a block between you and reality. Be intentional, and don’t lose a beautiful, irreplaceable…
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A ₱21,000,000 Adobe product
12,400% increase An Adobe software, which cost ₱168,000 per unit, was listed as ₱21 million each in the proposed budget submitted by PhilHealth’s IT sector, a whopping 12,400-percent increase from its original price, the auditors said in their report also in May. Marlon Ramos in COA flags ‘overpriced’ PhilHealth IT project ? ? ?
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In a time when touch is so limited
In the dunes, I touched this hairy caterpillar for the first time. It was an experience so profound in a time when touch is so limited. Lucie Langston in I Am Stuck Between Two Lives During This Pandemic
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A way of helping the design community
We are all affected by this crisis. Some of us have been laid off and some of us have experienced even more difficulty in looking for work — whether it’s freelance or corporate. For us who have tried to leap and transition from one organization to another — during the crisis — it was such…
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How do I determine if a UI can be made more simple?
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. An aphorism attributed to Albert Einstein. But how could you determine if the UI you designed could (and should) be made optimally simpler — meaning can still be made more simple than the current without losing anything of value to the users (and while adding more…
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Making Space for Empathy
As they say, we only improve what we measure. But we don’t measure what we don’t know. We don’t talk about empathy because it’s not a variable or a metric in any of our systems. So how can we make space for empathy in our programs as they continue to eat the world? PC Maffey…
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Miss Simone
They don’t know I’m dead and my ghost is holding on. Nina Simone First heard of Nina Simone in her song “Don’t You Pay Them No Mind.” Then watched the documentary “What Happened, Miss Simone?“