richforrester

Had a senior exec pick up his phone, punch some words into AI, then as-it-was-generating-a-response flip it around and put it in front of me.

This shit has progressed well past seriousness and into the absurd

Great.

How do we fix this.

It's like we know things are destined to go down in a flaming pile, and we're just watching so we can change it AFTER that happens.

Soz. Kinda a "dear diary" response, but am frustrated.

That has little to do with what I said.

A third of the world lives in poverty. That's the fault of capitalism.

Literally the most overwhelming thought, reading this, is "man, capitalism is a mistake"

The amounts of money circulating whilst some of us struggle to make rent ...

Nothing fair, or just, about this world we live in

As someone who's worked in UI/UX for 2 decades, I feel this too.

Recent developments have made me feel a form of guilt that's new to me. As though we've all had it too good for too long. Which is probably at least in part due to working for organisations that only care about the bottom line.

In short; all of this boils down to capitalism being simultaneously a drive and a drain on society.

It's impressive how much worse MS Teams has gotten. Genuinely baffling decisions on every single level in that UI...

What I love about these types of questions is that they come completely out of the blue

Like someone will rock up and ask for some stat that's completely irrelevant to the story, just "to make a point", without looking it up first themselves, just to imply something

And then later backtrack with "I WAS JUST ASKING" or something

Nah, go look it up yourself. Define successful for yourself, look up the statistic

Look for things like "happiest countries in the world", "GDP per capita", "life expectancy" or even "Big Mac index". Heck, make up your own index from a mix of them

Plus a lot of it has been about semantically correct formatting of your content and code.

It's a moving target in that a lot of orgs try to "game the system", or at least exploit it as best they can :)

Good content will mostly rise to the top because that's what search engines strive to optimise.

Nothing really changes that much probably. Just semantics.

I'm not keen on Apple's products. Getting their watch to go with my Pixel phone seems kinda ... no.

So, this product is for the part of the world that doesn't use iPhones, I suppose.

I'm kinda keen. Awaiting a MKBHD video, as per.

.edit: Guessing that feature's locked because it's part of FitBit, which was purchased by Google but probably still functions a bit separately.

Also literally has a link to "conclusions" :)

Because it leaves to the imagination, probably.

Worked in eye-tracking research for a bit.

Things you learn;

- Small text is hard to read

- Making things hard to read means they get missed sometimes

- Making it the only thing on the screen makes people try to read it really hard

- Which makes them more likely to remember it later

I work in UI/UX design and this f*cked with my brain for a while. It's counter to everything we're being taught.

Human brains are fun.

Glad you're able to work like that. A lot of people aren't though. For them, there needs to be a different solution.

This is a problem with how employment works, more than anything.

I've always "hung out" with colleagues after work hours. Because we're all in the same boat, and have more in common with each-other than anyone else, because we spend 40+ hours a week in the same room.

It's a failure of HR and management, imo, when that doesn't happen. And it can be increasingly hard to fix.