A walk down the memory lane at Microsoft explaining how Widows 95 UX was designed. Worth a read.
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The Complete Moral Bankruptcy of Manipulating Human Psychology To Turn Users Into Addicts
The “Morality Of Manipulation” Only Exists On A Spectrum From “Highly Immoral” to “Absolutely, Relentlessly Evil.”
An argument on the moral implications and the regulation in use of Psychology to manipulate users to have them complete / repeat a desired outcome.
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A look back at Y-Combinator
Today, i came across this post by Jes
sica Livingston, Co-Founder and Partner at Y-Combinator. In brief it talks about the root of Y-Combinator
The part which i liked most is:
Keep working on something that a few people love. The press may ignore you, but users won’t, and that’s what matters. Laboring away in obscurity, as frightening as it feels at the time, is the way a lot of good things happen. Maybe the way most good things happen.
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Improving the Design bit by bit
The goal, is to make incremental changes to improve the design of this blog. Changes will be listed below as executed and what were the improvements.
Lets get going.
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Twitter.com User Experience viewing images is difficult
You are browsing Twitter.com and see an interesting image. So you just click on the image / media to view it larger. As you can see in the image, the size is 503 pixels by 510 pixels, above screen-shot was taken in Full Screen mode.