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To elaborate, the distinction is professional engineering. SO not just structural integrity of a building. Under the Professional Engineering Act is:

>“practice of professional engineering” means any act of planning, designing, composing, evaluating, advising, reporting, directing or supervising that requires the application of engineering principles and concerns the safeguarding of life, health, property, economic interests, the public welfare or the environment, or the managing of any such act; (“exercice de la profession d’ingénieur”)

In principle, there's certainly a good justification for the protection of the title, but the reality is much different. There's probably a case for regulators to actually figure out what meaningful licensure would mean for Software Engineers or companies but that'll never happen. There was a time where I thought 'Software Engineer' was a relatively uncommon title due to this case, but it appears Ontario employers have become much more lax about this.

And while the PEO hasn't gone after individual engineers, Alberta's regulator has taken up the case, for some reason: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/technology/article-...

a lot of people mentioning "thing," and it's simply not used that way. That said, "ting" of Jamaican Patois origin would be appropriate.

What do you consider scrolljacking? I opened the breakfast article and saw some scrolljacking right away.

Is my understanding mistaken here?

my original post wasn't clear.

what I meant was one farm generally wouldn't have a crop that yields "great" produce that tastes great while simultaneously having produce that is:

> plasticky, perfect-looking, and utterly tasteless.

these would generally come from completely different crops and farms.

I understand that produce is graded by physical appearance but that produce of varying condition from the same crop would pretty much taste the same, which leads to the whole discussion about ugly produce.

it sounds like the poorer quality produce you're describing is just coming from lower quality farms?

I have no clue how the supply chain works, but I don't think produce from the same source is separated by the quality you're describing.

This reminds me vaguely of when a provider automatically unsubscribes users from newsletters they don't read.

Does anyone remember which company this is? Twitch?

Apparently you're expected to authenticate 1 shoe a minute

https://niketalk.com/threads/what%E2%80%99s-it-like-to-work-...

sounds like otiswealth.com would be the place.

which restaurant? I've seen a few food court spots go cashless, but nothing about downloading an app.

Shopify has been piloting the app with retailers that have the same target market as Restocks (YC W16).

The first pilot was with Kith in October sometime and now they're definitely doing some Black Friday stuff and are launching Yeezys for Off the Hook today.

> But it also was pretty awesome to have an almost latency-free experience (and good information design, making efficient use of my screen).

It's funny. I think most people would agree that the experience you described isn't diametrically opposed to 'good design,' and in fact have the same goals.

But, it seems like the modern conception of 'good design' has effectively been reduced to pretty things and interface design. Even if designers wouldn't say that if you asked.

So much FastCo Google coverage feels like astroturfing.

> I don't think google gets design.

I agree. That said, I think they're very early in infusing design with their culture. I would even argue pre-'design' @ Google, they were still very user centered, but in different ways.

Yep. Every keynote.

Usually some people will post source links which should be streamable from non-mac machines.

How much do PR firms cost? and how well off do you have to be to afford one?

I'd be curious what proportion of public facing space would be lockers.

I imagine it'd be great to showcase flash sales and extremely high demand items. I really believe a retailer selling physical goods needs some sort of physical presence and hope this is something interesting.

I think the lectures so far aren't exactly inconsistent with your thinking. They're skewed SV and given their origins, why wouldn't they be? But at the same time, the first two lectures have politely/subtly pointed out whats wrong with the scene and taken them down

no source, but I was told it was just an idea that was sitting around that none of the former leaders wanted to launch.

don't most nfc implementations use a coil of wires that are some minimum physical size? I imagine the coil is the size of the watch (horizontally)

> Most UX methods and guidelines come from HCI (and HCI, of course, comes from other disciplines).

I don't think you can simplify it to HCI preceding UX or UCD methodologies.

As you point out, HCI of course comes from other disciplines and just like the field of UX, it's borrowed a lot. HCI, Human Factors, Psychology, etc., all borrow techniques from others (as you've acknowledged)and a lot of what they do has been developed in parallel.

A lot of UX and design methods were developed in parallel by designers with at traditional design background or others without formal research backgrounds. Despite UX being characterized as a science or more rigorous than traditional design, it is largely a pragmatic practice.

where did they comment on the matter? Can't find said comment or was it an article?

> The problem that I'm increasingly encountering is that everything (up to XXXL) in shirts is too small for me. There's nothing that can be tailored to fit.

> Jeans simply don't tailor well on account of seams and other factors. Slacks can be, but again, you've got to have the material to start with, and today's "skinny" styles don't.

I'm curious. What are the types of stores you shop at? Although I'm sure styles have been slimmed down across the board, there are plenty of stores I see with regular fitting clothes.

and FWIW, jeans tailor fine usually, you just need a tailor that knows what they're doing and obviously cost may not be worth it.

What I find interesting is the forces that enabled this explosion are potentially the same or similar forces that has enabled the development of fashion that isn't necessarily "fast fashion" in a F21 or Inditex sense.

The sense of aesthetic, style consciousness and 'agility' makes it much easier for startups like Frank & Oak or Everlane to exist. Arguably, you could consider these companies Fast Fashion too. And then you get a company like John Elliot + Co, a company that would be seen as a luxury line that says:

> “We can pull the trigger at a moment’s notice and get the wheels turning so that we can produce garments that are needed at a relatively quick turnaround time. That gives us a tremendous advantage.” [1]

Although garment manufacturing has by and large moved off shore, there's been a little bit of a trend to bring things back here. Even if it is a race to the bottom, there are still opportunities.

[1] http://www.businessoffashion.com/2014/08/cult-menswear-brand...

Reminds me of a startup in Toronto: Usehurrier.com

This is really Uber's "On Demand ____" promotions (read: experiments) coming to life and I imagine partnerships with retailers (similar to their local partnerships for events and more recently restaurants) will be an easy next step for this service.

> Secondly, your UI shouldn’t mimick the native style of the platform.

hmm..?

> After all, it’s another case of copying the looks and the two reasons mentioned earlier apply here too. It still is time-consuming and distracts you from thinking about your user’s actions.

From a development perspective this may be true, but from a usability/UX perspective, this definitely isn't. It's not just about copying.

> I imagine much Toronto talents gets sucked down to Kitchener-Waterloo.

I'm not sure about the actual numbers, I don't think movement is in any one direction where a reliable conclusion like that can be made. While a lot of talent is attracted and bred there, I'm not sure about the actual retention of talent. A bunch stay, but a lot leave for the US and there's an interesting dynamic between Waterloo and Toronto given that they're so close to each other.

Didn't Twitter declare something similar?

Is there anything they can do that's binding outside of a declarative 'we won't sue you unless...' statement?

After a while of reading the replies, Iron Man came to mind.

I've worked on the UX team @ a Canadian bank and briefly touched a project that dealt with passwords.

Based on the bank I've worked at and the limited information I've received, it really isn't about the customer experience. It's likely related to legacy systems (someone alluded to this in another comment mentioning COBOL) and some outdated security practice in some of these systems. I think the security teams ideally would like to increase password strength, but costs (and non progressive technology teams) can tend to get in the way of making that change. As the article mentions, they try and mitigate this with reactionary measures and stricter restrictions when it comes to invalid login attacks.

For what it's worth, two-factor is being explored by banks and if I'm not mistaken, the banks do have existing two-factor authentication schemes -- just not for retail banking customers.

if i'm not mistaken, there's a separate phone PIN for this reason.