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Twitter is now just filled with design bro’s boasting how much they make every month, along with engagement bait tweets. We’re better than this folks.
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Paint is not enough #paintisnotenough
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Simon Michaelis retweeted
Hat mich sehr zum Nachdenken gebracht dieser Satz von Eckart von Hirschhausen:
"Es ist schwer ehrenamtlich die Welt zu retten, wenn Andere sie hauptberuflich zerstören."
Simon Michaelis retweeted
50% of UI design is removing unnecessary stuff
The other 50% is organising what remains
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Remember wireframes?
There’s a reason why no one is giving feedback of any depth on the information structure, the flow, and the behavior. They’re too hung up on what they don’t like about the colors, typography, etc to see beyond that.
Simon Michaelis retweeted
The focus of my writing for the last few years has been design. The reason is design, at its foundation, is optimism! To design means you care and want things to be better. This is special and powerful.
If I can help makers make better things, it's a great use of my life.
Simon Michaelis retweeted
Wer bis heute immer noch kein Corona hatte sollte vom RKI eine kleine Christian Drosten Actionfigur bekommen.
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Hiring managers: how are you working to move away from running interviews up as anxiety-inducing performances and towards a fairer, more inclusive and equal-stakes discussion between you and your candidates?
4 ideas I’ve heard and liked recently 🧵
Please add yours!
Simon Michaelis retweeted
Many good things in life that we want never happen mostly because we’re so afraid of awkward moments.
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This is true at a personal level, at a professional level, and at a societal level. I have an overwhelming feeling increasingly wash over me of "maybe we should just fucking stop." Let's just stop doing most of the stuff we're doing. We'd all be so much better off for it.
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Back in my day, we used spare CPU cycles for folding proteins and searching for aliens
