Song of the week
[ntt_rl_unsplash href=”rX12B5uX7QM” photographer=”Stormseeker”]At the core, anxiety and feelings of overwhelm feed one another. The more overwhelmed you are, the more anxious you feel; the more anxious you are, the more overwhelmed you feel.
A systems model of anxiety-driven procrastination
[ntt_rl_unsplash href=”vtbgoLMPeG4″ photographer=”Anton Maksimov 5642.su”]Relevancy is an important attribute of information, determined by its context and the pre-existing knowledge of the information consumer. With relevancy, people are able to make information out of plain data. Adding context to a data set is the way information can be used by humans.
The Document Triangle
[ntt_rl_unsplash href=”Exj9-cn1Wso” photographer=”Maria Teneva”]If you’re a designer or developer, it’s your job to push back on the notion of consistency when it begins to affect a user’s experience. Remember design is how it works, and work is not the same on every device.
Consistency Sin
[ntt_rl_unsplash href=”PuJPk_5jzqE” photographer=”Karsten Winegeart”]One important component of hype is thus a set of promises of what the technology can achieve in the future for you dear reader. These might range from solving a particularly annoying problem to creating new markets, making you heaps of money, or even revolutionizing a whole field and changing society as a whole.
The five Levels of Hype