everythingabili
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Comment · 11 days ago
Can the dates at the side be fixed or built into the grey horizontal separator bars, the text is so small you have to zoom in...and then the dates are gone.
Comment · 1 month ago
Lovely tool, but the UI and text are way too small. Makes it unusable. :-(
Comment · 4 months ago
There's something naive about all this, as if the entire metaphor is a somehow laudable, benign or 'natural' process tied up with Americans' origin story - but some omits the wholesale slaughter of indiginous people, the mass enslavement of people from another continent, and along the way poisons half the land with toxic waste.
They're both also stuck in the "golden" 1970s, and is without the subsequent stages that contain bureaucrats, politicians, mafioso, tech oligarcs and demagogues, which pretty much reduces the prior stages to proles, subscribers or fodder.
As Adobe continue to enshittify their products, to public disgust, they're more profitable than ever, I'm not sure if these cutesy "Townspeople" metaphors mean anything at all.
Comment · 7 months ago
You can do this with GQuery.
It's really good (no affiliation).
/* Uses: https://github.com/FCPS-TSSC/GQuery */
function exampleQuery1() { const gq = new GQuery(); const result = gq .from("Tags") .select(["ID","Name"]) .where((row) => row.ID == 12) // you can use > or < etc .get(); JSON.stringify(result, null, 2) }
Comment · 8 months ago
One rainy afternoon, armed with Gemini AI, I wondered how far I could get "making" a web version of HyperCard.
The HyperCOD(e) version is limited, but you can go next card, and run on idle commands. And it does colour!
Don't expect too much, but making this was fun and I'm now going to make a few stacks with it.
Comment · 1 year ago
30 years experience of coding and development with degree in Sculpture. After 4 or 5 years as an artist...
* Hypercard/Director/Photoshop based Multimedia
* AppleScript/Filemaker
* Web Development Prograph CPX / SQL Web Development
* Python/Zope/SQL/PHP Web Development
* Processing(Java)/P5js/GDevelop Edu/Games Development
* Python/AppleScript/Sheets/AI/Python
Comment · 1 year ago
I was once at a coding conference (Prograph CPX now you ask) and there was a coding competition. Who could create a usable To Do List App in one hour. About six people took part.
At the end of the hour, people demoed their creations. "This one is clunky and works like this...", "This one uses text to" etc.
The last person got up and showed some doodles and notes on sheets of paper. He said "Mine is the only one that actually works and is well designed, I just need to code it now".
I don't know if there's a lesson in there, but to me it was cool as.
Comment · 1 year ago
Other non-linear music-making tool options include
* BespokeSynth - make music with flow diagrams * Orca - make music with shimmering conway worlds * Sonic Pi - make music with code
All free, all mind-blowing, all a possibility for composing and creating in a different metaphor to the left-to-right DAW like Garageband.
Comment · 1 year ago
Yeah... one might use Sonic to load a csv and generate sounds based on your data, that might then be used as static assets in their app.
I recently helped a tutor using BespokeSynth to create audio explainers, wiring together frequencies and interactive oscillators and waveform viewers to explain resonant frequencies (or something, I didn't completely get it)
https://static.everythingability.opalstacked.com/bespoke_syn...
Comment · 2 years ago
I came here to say the same thing exactly. Tufte books are very visual (and expensive - see if you can find a copy of any of his books, changed my life). You can just dip in.
Norman is ace. Although his books turned me into a usability weirdo unable to switch off my usability sensors... be careful! :-)
As is Raskin - whose interface "notation" (click-drag-click etc) I think isn't talked about enough.
Can I also throw in these...
Don't Make Me Think: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dont-Make-Me-Think-Usability/dp/032... - I found this a REALLY useful book, and great to share with people too.
A Pattern Language https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pattern-Language-Buildings-Construc... - OK, this is a bit esoteric, but it's so valuable and lots of geeks/UX-ers kind of aim to create their own pattern language as opposed to a UX-dogma.
Information Architecture https://www.amazon.co.uk/Information-Architecture-Beyond-Lou...
Visual Language https://www.amazon.co.uk/Visual-Language-Global-Communicatio... - a kind of fundamental - hard to find.
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There are dozens of methodologies to learn, and put into practice. I would put it that you don't really learn UX, you do it, and revise - in order to solve problems and make things better. Once you've digested some of the ideas you need to start trying the methodologies out. This is harder than it sounds. Even companies that claim to support UX, sort of bugger things up.... in that UX can't "fix" crap... it needs to be in at the beginning.
My favourite activities / methodologies, that produced REAL results were
* Ethnography - kinda just hanging out and observing what actually goes on. One client used to print off every page to proof read their changes cos the font sizes were designed by 21 year olds and they were 60+. The applause I got for raising the font size would never have been found any other way than sitting in the corner. * Card sorting - often collaboratively with armfuls of post its to decide on categories/navigation * Wireframing - I had less success with paper prototyping, but still ... * Personas + Use Cases
...and Eye Tracking - which tbh was SO VALUABLE, not because of the insights it provided, but for the EVIDENCE (video and heatmaps) that you could use to persuade the big wigs.
So find a way to start getting yourself into trying out various methodologies, to fix problems. Doing UX when things are "kind of OK" can be quite hard imo, especially at the beginning.
Your background will be so useful, again imo and experience, you will be able to use UX to provide guidance and ideas and then MAKE THE BLOODY THING which lots of UX-ers can't do. I liked the cross-over - I code a bit and sometimes found it easier to make what I wanted, rather than specifying it or creating "designs".
Good luck!
Tom
Comment · 2 years ago
Gdevelop might be described as a low code platform as it's language is visual (like Scratch on acid). It already has "Generate a game with AI" built in. It's not very good.
What makes you think LLMs will get better? The more we've seen AI develop the more fine tuned everyone's senses have got hyper-sensitised to what's AI and it just reeks of the uncanny, rendering it ultimately useless.
Comment · 2 years ago
https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml
Doesn't work.