Data-Driven Design Is Killing Our Instincts, valuing data over design instinct puts metrics over users by Benek Lisefski.
Ugly Gerry is a font created by US congressional districts.
Amazon Is Using a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticism of Warehouses
This is some dystopian stuff.
Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticism of Warehouses:
Amazon is not the only company that relies on what publicists call “employee advocates.” Lizz Kannenberg, the director of brand strategy at Sprout Social, which advises companies on social media use, said that employee advocacy had developed over the last three to five years.
Bromwich, J. E. (2019, August 15)
June Oven owners are reporting preheating incidents.
This is 100% the fault of June and not the user:
June CEO Matt Van Horn says that owners, not the oven, are at fault. “We’ve seen a few cases where customers have accidentally activated their oven preheat via a device, figure your cell phone,” he tells The Verge. “So imagine if I were to be in the June app clicking recipes and I accidentally tapped something that preheated my oven, we’ve seen a few cases of that."
Carman, A. (2019, August 14). Smart ovens have been turning on overnight and preheating to 400 degrees.
Currently reading Draplin Design Co. Pretty Much Everything by Aaron James Draplin. This page is probably the most useful advice every, Vectors Are Free!
Thinknum, a dataset serivce for revealing strategic movements within companies, made their pitch deck a comic book.
Scooter's aren't as "eco-friendly" as they claim to be
The study concludes that dockless scooters generally produce more greenhouse-gas emissions per passenger mile than a standard diesel bus with high ridership, an electric moped, an electric bicycle, a bicycle—or, of course, a walk.
The paper found that scooters do produce about half the emissions of a standard automobile, at around 200 grams of carbon dioxide per mile compared with nearly 415. But, crucially, the researchers found in a survey of e-scooter riders in Raleigh, North Carolina, that only 34% would have otherwise used a personal car or ride-sharing service. Nearly half would have biked or walked, 11% would have taken the bus, and 7% would have simply skipped the trip.
Temple, J. (2019, August 2). Sorry, scooters aren’t so climate-friendly after all. Retrieved August 8, 2019, from technologyreview.com
🎥 Hobbs & Shaw was really good.
🎵 Chance the Rapper new album The Big Day is awesome.
Lovebot Graffiti in Toronto
“To create a better future we must create love within our lives now we have the tools to create love. This is love for not just some of us but for all people. This is love not just in our time, but for all time.”
— Lovebot
