Brian Dys

Author: Brian Dys

  • Mop-topping

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    Watched The Beatles: Eight Days a Week.

  • Only that you’re ignorant of what that entails

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    Well, let’s face it. These laws that you say, hidden laws, they are hidden. But they’re only hidden by our own ignorance. And the word “mysticism” is just being arrived at through people’s ignorance. There’s nothing mystical about it, only that you’re ignorant of what that entails. George Harrison

  • Assistive Technologies

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    Amplified telephone Font resizing / larger Hearing aid Screen magnification or zoom Cochlear implant Screen reader (e.g, JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, ChromeVox) Cane, walker, guide animal or other walking aid Braille terminal Wheelchair Voice Control / speech recognition Software (e.g., Dragon, Siri, Google Home, Google Assistant, Cortana) Prosthetics Speech generating device Wearable tech (not prosthetics) Speech…

  • Swallow (2019)

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    Tanya, we meet again. You better get up for your mamaYou better grab the best of your lifeI know you’re readyTo get olderAnyhow September Fields by Frazey Ford

  • I’m Reading: Week 14, 2020

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    Shape Up by Basecamp

  • And yet design and designers

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    And yet design and designers. I’m a designer, and what I’ve seen is that we are perpetually distressed, perpetually feel threatened by the idea of democratization. As long as I’ve been a designer there’s been talk about the idea of accreditation, about the idea of licensing designers, about making people take training, take tests in…

  • Are we doing the right thing?

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    In their writing, they reflect on their own work, and they’re skeptical about what they’re doing often times. They’re also very skeptical and question the world around them. And that’s something that I think that we can do a lot more as designers, and I know it is not an easy thing to do, because…

  • Notes on Cultivating Creative Collaboration – A Webcast by IDEO U

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    Guest speaker: Sacha Connor, Founder of Virtual Work Insider On Working from Home Burnout is more of a concern than lack of productivity. Virtual Meetings Make sure it is really necessary Avoid tourists in meeting – include only people that need to be there Pre-work – what can be done in advance to make the…

  • Uncoordinated Stream of Design Deliverables

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    I have often seen UX designers present bewildered development teams with an uncoordinated stream of design deliverables that define what they need to build—for example, Adobe Photoshop or XD screen designs, Figma prototypes, Confluence documents, and Excel spreadsheets, along with some hand-coded HTML and JavaScript. Plus, UX teams often seem oblivious or uncaring about the…

  • There Are No Little Things

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    Sometimes, when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things—a chance word, a tap on the shoulder, or a penny dropped on a newsstand—I am tempted to think there are no little things. Bruce Barton