Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Virtual World Manipulation
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Teenage Usability
Teens are (over)confident in their web abilities, but they perform worse than adults. Lower reading levels, impatience, and undeveloped research skills reduce teens’ task success and require simple, relatable sites. from Jacob Nielsen’s alertbox
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A new kind of natural selection
As change happens more rapidly, people are less able to get used to things “as they have always been” Change used to be something that took centuries, then decades, then years to ripple thru the echelons of society’s temperament. But as change forces itself on all people at this ever increasing rate, I BELIEVE it […]
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Interesting way to launch a service
Mailchimp is offering a 2% discount to anyone who signs up for their new “two factor security for web apps” service called Alter Ego. The whole two-factor security is – in itself – a worthy topic, but I’m saving this technique in a post because it’s interesting to see how a successful company – Mailchimp […]
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The Dollar Value of a Single Question
Every question you ask someone within a checkout form forces them to decide what you are asking, come up with an answer, and then enter their answer into the affordance (form input) you have provided. Removing a question removes all of these considerations. And surprise… it can have a real impact. For questions that can’t be […]
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Gmail – Delete Images & Attachments But Save The Message
Here’s a good post on how to do that. He references a freeware utility called IMAP Size. I haven’t given this a shot yet, will do so one of these days:)
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Who have you given access to?
With all the sites you’re able to connect your Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc accounts, it’s easy to forget if you gave permissions to a service that you forgot still has permissions. Enter “My Permissions” – just click on the icon and see who you’ve given access to. And then delete/revoke access to any. Super easy.
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Advanced Custom Bitly Domain
I recently helped a client setup a custom domain for their bitly account. Bitly of course makes this extremely easy except for one small thing: We wanted the root domain to redirect to their main site. To give an example, let’s say I had a custom short domain of “amit.st” that I wanted to use […]
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Blame The System, Not The People
Let’s face it: most of the world is poorly designed. Not just the world wide web. The entire world. Yet when the limits of a design cause us to have a conflict with another person, it’s easiest to blame that other person instead of the system which made the conflict highly likely. The problem is […]
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The Artist-Scientist-Inventor
From Buckminster Fuller: “Really great artists are scientists, and the really great scientists are artists and both are inventors. I call them artist-scientist-inventors. I think that all humans are born artist-scientist-inventors but that life progressively squelches the individual’s drives and capabilities. As a consequence, by the time most humans mature they have lost one, two […]
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