https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEpsKnWZrJ8&feature=share
Grace hopper explains the difference between a nanosecond and a microsecond using pieces of wire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEpsKnWZrJ8&feature=share
Grace hopper explains the difference between a nanosecond and a microsecond using pieces of wire.
We’ve all seen them. The dialog with the ok button that may as well say I am wasting your time for all the good it provides.
These are a class of dialog that deserves to be burned with fire. They provide absolutely no benefit to the user and contribute nothing but noise.
The iOS human interfaces guidelines on this are quite simple in regards to using alert views like this. The one-paragraph guideline for using them says:
Reserve alerts for delivering essential—and ideally actionable—information. An alert interrupts the user’s experience and requires a tap to dismiss, so it’s important for users to feel that the alert’s message warrants the intrusion.
Then later in the document when it describes alerts, it puts it in more detail.
An alert gives people important information that affects their use of an app or device… It’s best to minimize the number of alerts that your app creates, and make sure that each one offers criticial information and useful choices (emphasis mine). They then go on to detail the times to use dialogs or to use some other mechanism. For the most part, the use of these dialogs is discouraged as they are very intrusive.
Taken from a Medium post:
Programmers have to worry about things no sane human being ever considers. You drop a “last name” field in your design without thinking about it, but to a coder, there’s a hundred anxieties associated with that:
To any normal human being, these questions are absurd. To a coder, they are common sense. What this means for you, as a designer, is that you must keep close to your coders, try as much as possible to anticipate the anxieties that will besiege them, and keep them from derailing the experience with utter lunacy.
Taken from a Medium post:
The only things you can communicate with color are:
Any color: this thing has a color.
A different color: this thing is not the same as the other thing.
Gray: this thing is broken.
Red: the designer hates you and wants to make you angry.
Quote often attributed to the Talmud, however it seems to be a mashup of quotes. The intent is nice, though.
Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
Dave Winer, a few years ago wrote…
To say a developer is a coder would be like saying a composer is a note-writer.
The most important thing is that in the end of the day, it’s creative work that gets done, but writing code is only the mechanical act, it doesn’t capture the art behind it.
@JZdziarski: PKI / PGP Primer:🔑 Public Key
🗝 Private Key
📝 Message
📝+🔑 = 🔒✉️ Encrypted
🔒✉️+🗝 = 🔓📝 Decrypted
📝+🗝 = 🔏✉️ Signed
🔏✉️ + 🔑 = 👤 Authenticated
Just getting the task done sometimes is better than waiting for all the ducks to line up.
Mahatma Gandhi:
A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.