A decade and a half into my practice designing products and software, some things keep coming up. I’ll keep up with them here. 1. Make the software explain itself Ideally software should need no manual, instructions or training. Instead the meaning and actions available should be discoverable by the user and they should be able…| mattlumpkin
Like so many of us, I’ve been watching in horror since October 7th. I’ve felt paralyzed by not knowing what to do or say or how to understand how we got here. It feels again like it felt after September 11th; the first time I felt myself clinging to the back of my country like…| mattlumpkin
Vultures are circling some carcass a few meters off the highway. Each city along this route from Culiacán to Hermosillo is topping some violent crime chart; if miles of sand didn’t stand between them, the road would be a blood-red river flowing North, to the border. An old man sits outside the toll booth and shakes a cut-open milk carton at the passing cars to collect tolls—the penalty for not paying is a muttered curse on your life. Considering the […] The post Sight Line first appear...| The New Journal
Late, the singular white lightshines We cusped the yellow edgeand she said, will you bring it closer?As if we were schoolchildren tying ropearound the moon and pulling it behind usfrom the backseat window We stoodThe light burned brighter — Diya Naik The post 11:31 first appeared on The New Journal.| The New Journal