It’s been quite a while since I’ve gotten to try an ARM processor laptop running …
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The smartest messaging method is not a segregated mess of WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, SMS, Slack, Teams, Facebook, Instagram, WeChat, etc.
“Too Long Didn’t Read” Summary: Managing too many messaging apps can cause cognitive overload and contribute to burn-out. It’s smarter to focus on the one system that works with everything everywhere there’s internet and is completely open for you to control and customize on your own within the largest messaging ecosystem on the planet. Collaborative Diversity Type message, press send Global Standard Everyone else is NOT doing it SMS texting is obsolete Using phone numbers …
Continue readingGeneral User Experience Design Guidance
This page lists design guideline suggestions backed by logical reasoning that has often been proven in usability studies. Many GUI designers either ignore or don’t know about many of these basic rules that should probably be common sense. Make it “Easy to Learn” and “Easy to use” Always label buttons with text by default Enable theme capabilities and system theme integration Enable customizable interaction methods Avoid splash screens at startup Human-Computer User Interfaces in General …
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The Xiaomi Mi 10 Ultra is still my favorite phone as a photographer
For the past decade or so, my primary criteria for choosing a smartphone has been its camera capabilities. For numerous years after the Nokia Lumia 1020 was released, there was no innovation in smartphone camera capabilities. Happily we’ve finally reached a point where smartphone cameras are better than ever, and here’s my current favorite. If you’re already familiar with my writing on Pocketnow, you’ll know that I love to use smartphones for photography, especially when I …
Continue readingExplaining Windows 11’s Bad Design
Now hold on… when I say “bad design” here, I’m talking about bad design in the context of user experience and human-computer interaction design not the beautiful new immaterial background wallpaper graphics. The new background images and semi-opaque Vista-like windows look great! Human-computer interaction design generally has two important approaches; “easy to use” and “easy to learn.” There’s also the “easy to look at” approach to design, and that seems to be more what Microsoft …
Continue reading10 Ways Delta Chat is Better than WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram
With Facebook finally changing how WhatsApp works so that they can profit off of the users (as expected), many people are choosing to switch to other internet messaging apps like Signal & Telegram. We’ve already talked about how naïve that is given there isn’t really anything stopping Signal & Telegram from changing their policies or adding anti-features in the future (they have already). If you haven’t had your ear to the ground in places like the Fediverse or Free …
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Stop being naive when it comes to things like WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, etc.
The trend today has been to stop using WhatsApp ever since the policy was updated to allow sharing your personal information with Facebook. Some are recommending switching to other centralized messaging systems like Signal or Telegram, but there’s a problem with that too. Read on to learn how to recognize when a messaging app is out to profit off of and control you versus enabling better communications between people. Personally, I specifically never became dependent on …
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