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Human Dignity and the Perils of Indifference(nubero.ch)
4 points by nubero 3mo ago|0 comments
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A Polemic on the Importance of Beauty(nubero.ch)
3 points by nubero 9mo ago|0 comments
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by nubero 1y ago
Now it did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44573887#44576031
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by nubero 1y ago
It’s an interesting middle ground between technology, psychology and art. As I said in the article when I compared the skill set with that of the architect. Personally, I find that one of the most interesting aspects is the “usability” of t
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by nubero 1y ago
The Taj Mahal is 372 years old, the Parthenon 2457. And the latter isn’t even the first Doric temple.
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by nubero 1y ago
You made a good catch with the spacing of the columns! I actually wrote about it in the article in the 7th footnote. But that is where it had to remain because – as I assume you know from how you write – it’s a rabbit hole. We could go furt
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by nubero 1y ago
I think these questions that all of you have brought up here are really interesting and definitely a part of the psychology of perception. Optical corrections, however, are really a different thing though. They have quite a strict demarcati
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by nubero 1y ago
If it is ugly, it doesn’t work. One you understand that – really understand that deeply – you will not go back to the frame of mind you have now.
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by nubero 1y ago
That is a very good catch, I learned something, thank you!
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by nubero 1y ago
Thanks for your nice comment! It’s good to hear that people get something out of it! If you want to help, please share the link to the article around your colleagues and friends. Thanks again!
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by nubero 1y ago
I’m sorry but what you write is simply not correct. Gothic writing is actually a form of calligraphy and the very stilted shape that the characters have make it actually very hard/cumbersome/slow to write. Textura is one of the st
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by nubero 1y ago
That’s not quite true. If you look at what Bill Atkinson did with the innovations on the first Macintosh, comparing it to Xerox Alto won’t hold up. Of course they got a first general idea that an interface to a computer could be more than j
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by nubero 1y ago
Incidentally, I also wrote a piece about AI and more or less that point: www.nubero.ch/blog/014/
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by nubero 1y ago
It did take off in newsletters but not here…
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Designing for the Eye(nubero.ch)
8 points by nubero 1y ago|3 comments
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by nubero 2y ago
Interesting thoughts, thanks for commenting!
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by nubero 2y ago
I almost got run over by one of Zurich’s new trams a few weeks back, and the reason is bad industrial design.
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by nubero 2y ago
There’s a hand icon on mobile, and a mouse pointer on the desktop version actually…
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by nubero 2y ago
I expect a minimum of interest and curiosity with my audience. Also the ability to read. “Take a look at the following pictures¹” it says at the first clickable example. The choice of plural (images) gives a good hint, together with the foo
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by nubero 2y ago
It’s a metaphor. Keep your pants on
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by nubero 2y ago
I really don’t understand in which context you want to save space. We are not talking about printed book pages after all but screens. You can always scroll. As for the tracking of FF Unit: That’s by design. The letters themselves are actual
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by nubero 2y ago
Corrected that, thank you. Also nice to see, that you picked up on the single use vs. multiple use distinction (words vs. text).
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by nubero 2y ago
And a footnote explaining it. Having open eyes and being able to read helps.
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by nubero 2y ago
I actually know about the quality issues with the Japanese iron ore and impurities. It’s just a metaphor. Do you also approach people who say “killing two birds with one stone” and tell them how that is physically almost impossible?
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by nubero 2y ago
When creating or testing typefaces, you always go with things like “1. Illiad” to compare one with another. If during this test, one is clearly the winner – like Unit (or something like Unit) is over SF Pro, then you don’t need real world t
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by nubero 2y ago
The german signboard was a good real-world example that I happened to see for myself, that’s why I included it. It is a perfectly fine example of the sort of phenomenon I was talking about. The fact that this particular example was a signbo
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by nubero 3y ago
Unfortunately, one of the many pieces, where the term affordance is confused with what should be the term signifier. When people talk about the former, they usually mean the latter.
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by nubero 3y ago
> But I also recognize that using a simple icon or word as a touch target has its benefits in many contexts. Yes. Sometimes. I said so in the afterword of the piece. Maybe you missed it: “Does every virtual button – every button in a gra
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by nubero 3y ago
You got it.
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by nubero 3y ago
Did you read the first footnote I wrote in the piece? It’s actually about this exact thing you are talking about: In many graphical interfaces that expect a mouse as input, the programmers will make the clickable area of the upper row butto

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