Web Design in 4 minutes
Jeremy Thomas has an interactive way of teaching you how to design for the web in less than 4 minutes.
Go play on his website!
Let's say you have a product, a portfolio, or just an idea you want to share with everyone on your own website. Before you publish it on the internet, you want to make it look attractive, professional, or at least decent to look at.
What is the first thing you need to work on?
Unionizing the gig economy
Geir Freysson on his Medium blog:
Workers in the gig economy don’t get paid holidays, minimum wage, health insurance, a pension, expenses, overtime or redundancy pay. And they certainly don’t organise into unions to bargain for pay.
And:
The gig economy is one of the greatest tech and business innovations of recent times and it promises to make the consumer’s life a whole lot easier. This shouldn’t be mutually exclusive to those who work in it getting a decent deal and having the benefits employees in other industries enjoy. The gig economy could be just as powerful for workers as it is for consumers.
I say this is a brilliant idea.
Unionizing the gig economy
Geir Freysson on his Medium blog:
Workers in the gig economy don’t get paid holidays, minimum wage, health insurance, a pension, expenses, overtime or redundancy pay. And they certainly don’t organise into unions to bargain for pay.
And:
The gig economy is one of the greatest tech and business innovations of recent times and it promises to make the consumer’s life a whole lot easier. This shouldn’t be mutually exclusive to those who work in it getting a decent deal and having the benefits employees in other industries enjoy. The gig economy could be just as powerful for workers as it is for consumers.
I say this is a brilliant idea.
Independent workers are entrepreneurs
On Fast Company, an argument for independent workers not to call themselves freelancers. Instead, they ought to embrace the word “entrepreneur”.
Indeed, entrepreneurs are not necessarily venture-backed multi-million dollar boasting kids. Someone is an entrepreneur if they operate alone in the business world:
There’s no one else to blame if you fail or make a mistake. You're in charge of all the business decisions. No one pays you to sit at a desk when the work has run dry. Operating a business alone is a huge risk, a bet we independents place squarely on ourselves.
Independent workers are entrepreneurs
On Fast Company, an argument for independent workers not to call themselves freelancers. Instead, they ought to embrace the word “entrepreneur”.
Indeed, entrepreneurs are not necessarily venture-backed multi-million dollar boasting kids. Someone is an entrepreneur if they operate alone in the business world:
There’s no one else to blame if you fail or make a mistake. You're in charge of all the business decisions. No one pays you to sit at a desk when the work has run dry. Operating a business alone is a huge risk, a bet we independents place squarely on ourselves.
The uncelebrated typographers of the road
A lovely short video profile of Thomas Lilley, who is a roadliner in Glasgow. A roadliner is a person who paints the words and marks on roads with molten thermoplastic. Lilley does it quickly, freehand, and beautifully.Thomas Lilley has the prime characteristic of a great designer (to my eyes, at least) and that is clarity.
The uncelebrated typographers of the road
A lovely short video profile of Thomas Lilley, who is a roadliner in Glasgow. A roadliner is a person who paints the words and marks on roads with molten thermoplastic. Lilley does it quickly, freehand, and beautifully.Thomas Lilley has the prime characteristic of a great designer (to my eyes, at least) and that is clarity.
String of Attacks in Europe Fuels a Summer of Anxiety
String of Attacks in Europe Fuels a Summer of Anxiety
1967: summer of love.
2016: summer of shit.
String of Attacks in Europe Fuels a Summer of Anxiety
1967: summer of love.
2016: summer of shit.
Amazon partners with U.K. government to test its drones
Amazon partners with U.K. government to test its drones
“While today’s agreement doesn’t exactly give Amazon permission to start drone deliveries, it marks a major step forward for Amazon’s ambitions in this area.”
Amazon partners with U.K. government to test its drones
“While today’s agreement doesn’t exactly give Amazon permission to start drone deliveries, it marks a major step forward for Amazon’s ambitions in this area.”
News Publishers’ Facebook Problem
News Publishers’ Facebook Problem
“Today, Facebook drives about 40% of all referrals and Google drives about 35%. Together then, they drive 75% of all referrals to news and entertainment sites. Google has plateaued and Facebook shows continuing, if slowing, share-of-referrals growth.”
News Publishers’ Facebook Problem
“Today, Facebook drives about 40% of all referrals and Google drives about 35%. Together then, they drive 75% of all referrals to news and entertainment sites. Google has plateaued and Facebook shows continuing, if slowing, share-of-referrals growth.”
Understand how rappers write their texts. Pretty cool infographic video.
Understand how rappers write their texts. Pretty cool infographic video.
Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.
Primo Levi
Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.
End of the road for journalists? Robot reporter Dreamwriter from China’s Tencent churns out perfect 1,000-word news story - in 60 seconds
End of the road for journalists? Robot reporter Dreamwriter from China’s Tencent churns out perfect 1,000-word news story - in 60 seconds
The future is now.
Here’s Shigeru Miyamoto, talking about World 1-1 of Super Mario Bros. Fun fact: Most of the things he’s talking about can be used for designing every onboarding experience there is. Stuff like that never gets old.
Great stuff!