Director of Product Design at Eaze, Previously Director of UX at Zenefits, Previously Director of Design at Yammer. I build design teams that change industries.
Contact me at Jeffreykaineui (at) gmail.com or on Twitter @jeffreykaine
The author themselves said this was their first time writing long form. I chalk most of your complaints up to this and the fact that english is his second language.
What would you use all of the extra rooms for? One room for each person to sleep, a laundry room, a couple bathrooms, and a great room with living, dining, and kitchen is all you ever really need right?
I find it's best to look at laws like this as social trends. Look at the way that same sex marriage or legal marijuana spreads through the united states. One or two progressive states adopt the policy, it gains steam, and soon it's the new norm nationwide.
I like to think that the same thing can happen on a global scale.
I'd actually be down with this, but only if facebook gave user's the ability to lock their own data down at fair market price. That way the user pays for a product, or decides to be the product. It's clean and cut & dry; and there wouldn't be any illusions of a "free" service.
This is a case where an Artist has confused themselves with a designer. Designers solve problems, often by using existing conventions to help an interface/tool/object/room be instantly usable and understandable.
An artist flexes their creativity and communicates thoughts through imagery/experience/sound.
Choosing to enforce a speeding law is still subjective though, so this wouldn't change much. We speed all over California, police choose to go after the most dangerous (or least conforming to community standards, or... some other even less good measure, like race).
it might be more accurate to describe suffering as an optional subconscious process. You suffer by default, but you can choose to not suffer with the right amount of mindfulness. As for the cat, again, the cat might not have the mental fortitude to set aside the suffering.
They might not have the ability to ignore things quite as well as a human can, but the same concept applies. Many dogs will ignore their own pain to help another in need. Not indulging in pain takes a discipline of mind that most animals are incapable of in most situations.
Is anyone working on an app that can do this? There were those parking ticket negotiating apps for a bit. I wonder if there is a way to systemize the negotiation process here. I bet you could charge people up to 10% of the money you save them.
Design is how something works. Glass rectangles are currently the best solution for mobile computing. This is how design works, Someone innovates, the industry copies the design, minor tweaks are made until another breakthrough happens (usually driven by tech, not design).
Designers don't suck a design, designers solve problems, and often the best solutions all look the same until there is a real tech break-though.
Marijuana is a great alternative to opioids for pain management. I got a couple long term injuries in college (permanently broken L5 vertebrae, a shoulder that continually dislocates) and was on opioids for quite a while. I was noticing a dependence and quickly looked for alternatives. Weed has been a godsend. I can sleep through the night, and mostly operate pain free these days. I've been smoking weed for 7+ years and I'm feeling great!
There is definitely an argument made. It might not be in the form that you're looking for, but the argument is there. The graph clearly points to a high correlation between the industrial revolution and a fast and huge (relative to other changes) rise in temperatures. How is this not an argument?
XKCD has a long history of citing their work, why can't an effective argument be made with visuals? I don't understand why the medium of the argument matters here.
I think what you're missing here is that climate change activists aren't concerned with "saving the earth" they are REALLY concerned with saving humanity and the current set of flora and fauna on the planet. Yes, Earth has had higher concentrations of CO2, but that was before mammals existed, so, why is that even relevant? I have a hard time believing that you think we'll all be ok if our atmosphere resembles that of the carboniferous period...
Is it really all that hard to have a demo site for these things? It would be a lot of fun to play with crossing pictures. I'm guessing it's because using a graphics card in the browser isn't good enough yet?
Agreed, this is why IMO it's much better to set up a tank with fish you can eat (Tilapia was mentioned in the article, but I've seen rainbow trout setups as well).
Makes paying for fish food a little better, because you get a delicious form of protein as well.
This was likely the strategy. The board wanted more profit, knew they needed to change some things, and decided to do it before a real competitor made it to the scene.
The company would save on buying computers and just get everyone work phones (galaxy devices). Seems like that would be best for a non technical workforce anyway. Support and Sales are always on the phone.
I bet this would be great for an operations, sales, support or any pother non technical role. The company would only have to buy docs and monitors and then the workforce can just swap out their mobile devices from meeting room to desk etc... I see a large enterprise or student play here if they have the vision to market it.