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My child is profoundly dyslexic. This kind of tool is a game-changer for him.

UX Designer (at Google) here. I feel your pain. For any design to work, it needs to be grounded in a firm understanding of the user's behavior. I agree that design intuition is limited by one's own view of the world, so it's critical to gather the right data before going further than speculative designs. This can be accomplished through a variety of means, but observation and qualitative interviews prior to "design" are usually effective.

The design should be validated with different users from the same cohort prior to building it. Functional prototypes work well here. Ignoring user feedback here is a huge mistake on the part of the designer. Design is relatively cheap, and it's easy to iterate and check your assumptions with users before anything is set in stone. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this step would have increased trust with your engineering team. Often due to ignorance, some designers don't appreciate how much effort goes into these builds, and how early architectural decisions shape the product in ways that make it difficult to change later.

Acknowledged, that this is a "perfect world" scenario and business pressure might require augmenting the process. An experienced designer would understand how to do this and still get meaningful results.

The magic wand tool (or really any of the "modern" extraction tools in Photoshop) can't handle hair the way they claim to do in those examples. If this is truly done with non-manual work, it's incredibly impressive.

I realize this is a corner case, but I wonder how dyslexics will perform using a font that looks even less like a letterform — when it is already a struggle to combine several into a word.

Most likely insisted upon due to the obfuscation of user privacy

Naw, kids from Netflix homes are just watching long-form commercials. Dino Trucks, Nexo Knights and Ninjago all dominate my boys' Christmas wish lists this year.

Those will remain

Parents buy iPod Touches for their kids, so they have a cheap wi-fi enabled gaming and entertainment device, with no monthly contracts, that fits in mom's purse.

Companies buy iPod Touches to use as ticket scanners, credit card readers and product catalogs among other things. Same reason – cheap, wi-fi enabled, no contracts.

Not Indian and I find this comment terribly offensive. What does race have to do with wanting to better oneself? Who cares what race the model in the photograph is?!

It's shameful. I had to make my Instagram private, because I had a recruiter texting me and noting I was at Disneyland, suggesting I could get in touch while in line for rides.

This extended back to USWeb/CKS. I might still have a shirt bragging about a $300M quarter (Though if you looked at the financials,we had something like a $50M loss).

It was like the Tres Comma club, but tackier.

I don't think that's totally accurate. If you consider the popularity of adjacent technologies (games, mobile devices, entertainment), it's logical to predict that a certain technology will also be noteworthy.

Kind of like the internet in 1992

It's their boss' (aka Congress) job to set a tone where it is not a livelihood risk to "do your duty".

If you're a peon, "doing your duty" is a great way to put a target on your back.