The new icons are bad. There are small distinguishing details that are hard to notice at small sizes. The icons need to be more simple, concrete, and recognizable.
Not surprised that many are having a bad user experience with Jira. The interface design and usability is atrocious because it's a tool designed by developers. Developers lack the UX training and thinking that's needed to make the tool intuitive and easy to use.
Recently learned that pigs are smarter than dogs and even 3-year olds. They're also very social, which makes them humanlike. For this reason I don't ever eat pork. It would be like eating dog or human meat.
May I ask, why does the intelligence and sociability of the animal sway your decision, as opposed to the animal’s ability to think and feel? Where is the line that separates eating dog or pork from eating cow or chicken?
I'm not the OP you're asking about, but on a related note: I don't eat dogs because they're omnivores. I try to stick as much as possible to only eating ruminants. But that's a completely separate issue than what you were asking OP about.
As someone who is written over 300 articles on my blog I can relate to the feeling of wondering if my words even matter or make difference. Feeling like they don't matter is the easiest way to quit.
Some articles have made a splash, but only for the momentary period it was first published. I always wonder if the next generation of people will ever see it, or will it just get lost in the void.
I've come to terms that it doesn't matter if it helps people or not. What keeps me writing is all the interesting thoughts and ideas I want to share. It's a way to express what's inside of me to the few people that want to listen.
If you can make writing so engaging to you to where you want to play it like a video game, you've cracked the code to being a writer.
I just checked my blog. 367 posts. But it’s private with a protected login. It’s written for an audience of one: my son when he’s an adult. Maybe it’s also written for me.
I contend that the best writing and the easiest commitment to regular writing is to write for yourself. Always.
Publicly available but protected? Sorry, but that's just mean. Your son will likely never read all, or any, of it. But someone else's son might. If it wasn't login protected, that is.
Exactly. It's even worse than the belief that privacy is unnecessary unless you have something to hide, since it enslaves you to a positive obligation to informing others, and despite the risks. If you have something interesting to say regarding humans, then you have to judge that there doesn't exist someone sufficiently threatened by it to do you or your interests any harm, and thinking through that is both stressful and uncertain. The safest default assumption is privacy.
Just getting some of your thoughts down in writing is a first step, like a diary or journal. Maybe a few of those thoughts should be public soon, or maybe not. But getting them down helps your thinking and is useful.
Writing is not a public good by default, but merely a physical manifestation of thought, and thus private.
> you have to judge that there doesn't exist someone sufficiently threatened by it to do you or your interests any harm
There absolutely is someone who exists that would weaponize some of my posts against me. That's why it's private and will remain so, except for my son's eyes when he is older.
Herman Melville was nearly lost to the void; it's pretty much random happenstance that Moby Dick was discovered thirty years or so after publication. Like the tiktok craze over No Children, I suppose...
This. This is why you don't want analytics on your blog/website/platform. Analytics leads you into crowd-pleasing, veering away from your own insights and truth. I've probably written on the order of that many articles, too, over the past uhh... ? years... and if any of them made a "splash" I probably wouldn't even know! Don't care.
I find that writing helps clarify my thoughts and own them, rather than just being an amalgamation of the content I consume. It also helps keep my opinions and predictions in check—-I have something that I can look back on in future years and see how my opinions have changed, which can be a humbling experience because in the present it is easy to think that you are always correct.
I bet my life it does help people. Even if it's just one sentence that someone read as part of 20 tabs they opened for whatever research/project/thing they were doing.
You can write for yourself, but if you publish it on a publicly available site, you clearly want it to be read by others.
'Don’t strive to be superior to others; strive to be better than you were yesterday." I find this quote to be the main difference between single player/multi player game. The joy is always in progress, the difference is your frame of reference.
In UI design, the user's attention is limited and valuable. I'm always doing things to minimize distractions and emphasize key information. The common problem is that there's so much information/data/content to offer that most people want to show everything.
However, revealing everything spreads the user's attention in every little area. There is no concentrated focus on any one thing. As a result, the user doesn't really absorb what they're reading deeply. They don't absorb information in a detailed way because there's something else they have to click around the corner.
To improve human attention designers have to say no to displaying certain things and focus on the few that's essential. This is easier said than done, but needs to be done.
China is always overstepping their bounds and needs to be checked by the superpowers of the world. Without checks and balances, they will continue to bully the neighboring countries by force and deception.
Russia is a superpower? o-O I would understand if you put EU there. Or if you consider it to be separate states, Germany, UK, and France. Russia has not been a superpower since the collapse of USSR and even regaining those territories (which is not going to happen) won't turn them into one. Neither China, nor US are superpowers because they have a lot of land. They are superpowers because they have immense industries, which the world depends on.
So, you and I both posted the same information about the current assessment.
Thanks. It’s great to discuss the current situation
“Ukrainian officials are increasing the urgency of their requests for more-sophisticated Western-provided weapons systems amid reports of growing Russian artillery superiority”
No, I did not. I asserted that all this discussion by people [here] about Russia’s “humiliation” is out of date then I posted a NYT article to update the discussion here.
When complex tasks are too simple, users can lose trust in the interface. For example, if buying a car is as simple as pushing a button, it seems too convenient to be true. You want to make the task easy to do, but not too easy if the task is more complex than usual. As a designer, it's key to keep that balance in mind. Super easy-to-use isn't always optimal. Sometimes easy enough is enough.
