Month: October 2014

AMA: I’m Julie Zhuo, director of product design @ Facebook

[news.layervault.com/stories/3…](https://news.layervault.com/stories/37106-ama-im-julie-zhuo-director-of-product-design–facebook)

Read it.

There’s a 30% chance your shrimp isn’t what you think it is

[qz.com/289087/th…](http://qz.com/289087/theres-a-30-chance-your-shrimp-isnt-what-you-think-it-is/)

And this surely does not apply to shrimps only.

Finding New Solutions in Old Philosophy

[tracking.feedpress.it/link/7644…](http://tracking.feedpress.it/link/7644/296579)

A beautiful post applying philosophical thinking to UX problems.

my friend found a table with a chess board on it and sat down
and noticed bob dylan leaning against the rail and looking at the water.
at first nobody noticed him but eventually he started to get surrounded.
my friend got up and walked right up to him and said
“bob we got the chess board you wanted”
and bob saw his chance and took it. my buddy got to play silent chess with him
the whole trip and as long as bob seemed engaged people seemed to
leave him alone.

A collection of stories from Todd Snider about people (randomly) meeting Bob Dylan.

Open New Tab = satellite photo of Earth

[chrome.google.com/webstore/…](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/earth-view-from-google-ma/bhloflhklmhfpedakmangadcdofhnnoh/related)

Install this Chrome extension and get a beautiful satellite photo of earth every time you open a new tab.

Improving WhatsApp

Improving WhatsApp

Some ideas on how to improve WhatsApp by Maximilian Kiener. I think the read status indicator is the most elegant of the proposed features.

Drag and drop to share is too different from platform (iOS) conventions and would necessitate educating the users, something WhatsApp doesn’t do since their app is so unbelievably simple and platform-savvy.

Interesting stuff overall.