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Users don’t see (pay attention to) everything that is visible on a UISelective attention & content blindness in UX design — UX Knowledge Piece Sketch #65In this article, I’m going to discuss four types of “blindness” that have UX design implications: content blindness, banner blindness, change blindness and inattentional blindness.Before discussing each of these in more detail, let’s discuss how our attention works.How our attention worksLimited capacityAttention is a limited …

This Moon Phase calendar prioritizes the Moon Phase instead of the named months. https://starinastar.com/moon/moon-phase-calendar-perpetual.html The post Moon Phase Calendar appeared first on Star In A Star.

Since reflecting on one year at Microsoft almost 12 months ago, a lot has changed. Most visibly to the outside world, we’ve completely re-designed and re-engineered our Copilot consumer app from the ground up with a a craft- and quality-first mentality. The New Copilot mobile app Copilot Daily helps you catch up with world events Generating images is easier than ever Every element moves more gracefully, every response loads much …

At the intersection of playfulness and learning, math board games offer an extraordinary opportunity to immerse yourself in the captivating world of mathematics.

What is NP? Why is NP? Posted 12/11/2024 This post is about theoretical computer science. I’ve written it without getting too far into academic vocabulary, but this is a disclaimer that if thinking about Turing machines sounds dry as sand, this will not be the post for you. In computer science we are often interested in how difficult a problem is, defined by how the number of steps required to …

Let's address the existence of so called Ghost Engineers

For the first time, through Teach the Future's advocacy, young voices weren't just present but were genuinely heard and valued at one of the world's premier foresight gatherings. The Dubai Future Forum 2024 made history by including youth delegates, chosen for their demonstrated leadership in futures thinking and social impact. Each delegate brought a unique journey that earned them this groundbreaking opportunity. Our delegates include Sadiyah Saqib, Tia Aftab, Claire …

This is a real question. I don’t know the answer and I’m curious. I lived in New York City for ten years and Los Angeles for seven years, and there are a lot of Jewish people in those two cities, so it could be coincidence. But I honestly didn’t realize it until one day I was thinking about the difference between shallow versus deep friendships, and made a list of …

Spotify and its bizarre, hyper-specific genres are rewriting how we understand music. Why? And should we bother fighting back? Continue reading → The post How Spotify and its Genres Define Who We Are appeared first on Aesthetics for Birds.

I’m not the first to write about how Jujutsu won me over. I’ve seen it off and on, and each time it came across my feed it was bumped a bit higher in my “list of things to look at eventually”. It finally reached the top spot, I think, when I saw Tony Finn’s post and made some time for it that week. I was skeptical; jj is one of …

Yesterday I arrived in Santa Clara for the Q2B (Quantum 2 Business) conference, which starts this morning, and where I’ll be speaking Thursday on “Quantum Algorithms in 2024: How Should We Feel?” and also closing the conference via an Ask-Us-Anything session with John Preskill. (If you’re at Q2B, reader, come and say hi!) And to coincide with Q2B, yesterday Google’s Quantum group officially announced “Willow,” its new 105-qubit superconducting chip …

Boy, what a month. If you haven’t heard, for the past thirty days we’ve been experimenting with a new event. We call it Mothership Month, and we hope this is the first of many. TL;DR Mothership Month ends Tuesday, December 10 at 12 PM CST (or whenever the backer train ends), so if you haven’t checked it out, do it now! What is Mothership Month? It’s essentially a month long …

Recently, noted VC Marc Andreessen kicked off a discussion about debanking, in a podcast with his co-founder Ben Horowitz (begins at 7:42) and in an appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast. The venture firm they founded, a16z, also published a brief on this topic.The central thrust, quoting a16z’s brief (ellipsis in original): “Debanking can therefore be used as a tool or weapon systemically wielded by specific political actors / agencies against …

Figure 1. Video Editing Work Last May, when OpenAI withdrew Sky, the ChatGPT voice that resembled Scarlett Johansson’s too much for the actress’s liking, the startup learned a lesson that Disney had paid for 3 years before. Unhappy with negotiations over her lost earnings when the studio released Black Widow in theaters and on Disney+ simultaneously, she sued and later settled for breach of contract. After shrugging off the axiom …

Not much progress to report today. I’m still trying to become sufficiently proficient with the flightstick to tackle the highest level I’ve reached without it. I still maintain that it will be a benefit to me once I’ve mastered it, but right now, it’s a learning curve. It strikes me that the game’s ideal player is one who’s already over this hurdle, just as, say, Animal Well is built on …