Syrian girl mistakes camera for gun in heartbreaking photo. And your heart broke too.
DESIGN
- Why It’s Selfish to Avoid Giving Negative Feedback. Important for designers and teachers. It’s something I wish I was better at. I don’t like giving people negative feedback especially if I think they’ve worked really hard.
- Cultural factors in web design. Consider it, yo.
- A Guide to Thesis Writing That Is a Guide to Life (via New Yorker). A little article that I needed at the time. Although I don’t know if anything will get me to procrastinate less.
- These Dissolving Coffee Pods Are The Anti-Keurig. YES. Keurig cups have always driven me crazy. These make so much more sense to me.
- Replacing The User Story With The Job Story. For UX designers, some ways to improve the research stage.
- Dieter Rams: If I Could Do It Again, “I Would Not Want To Be A Designer”. The title is just click bait, but it was still a really great article.
SOCIAL
- This Map Of America Shows Our Equal Pay Failures. This was really sad. And I also wish it wasn’t pink.
- CEO Slashes $1 Million Salary To Give Lowest-Paid Workers A Raise. That is so amazing. This CEO made sure that all his workers got a minimum salary of $70k. I wish more people were interested in closing the wage gap. I’m not saying that everyone needs to make the same amount of money, but there is definitely no reason that someone should be paid so tremendously more than other people.
- One Is Enough: Why There Aren’t More Women Executives (via Wall Street Journal). “New research from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business and Columbia Business School finds that a woman’s chances of landing one of a company’s five highest-paid executive jobs drop 51% if there’s already a woman on the team.” Nuff said.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
- Rich People Are Great at Spending Money to Make Their Kids Rich, Too. I don’t know if this is really science & technology, but it is research…a break down of what different income group spend money on.
- Seriously, Stop Demonizing Almonds. This was a super interesting article to me that lays down some truths about food production and that amount of water it takes. Especially important for states like California that are experiences a drought.
- Problem With Women in Tech? The Pipeline or the Revolving Door. Ok, I know i’ve been posting a lot of equality articles already, but this was was really well-written an you should read it if you work in tech, whether you’re a man or woman.
- The microwave that shows you when your food is cooked. So much more helpful!
MEDIA
- Who Will Control Tibetan Reincarnation? (via The New Yorker) Whoa. The debate and politics about picking the new dali llama.
- Sizzler’s. If you haven’t seen this 1991 Sizzler commercial that’s making the rounds on the internet, you certainly should.
- Webcam (short film). We all have stickynotes on our webcam now. The scary part is that 1) it happens and 2) you might know that my computer is constantly glitchy so I was particularly worried after seeing this.
- Instagram chef parodies Michelin-style plating with junk food masterpieces. The captions, tho.
- What Your Upstairs Neighbors Are Really Doing. A little bit of lighthearted humor for you.
- one little epic. Sarah’s dear friend Hannah has a blog that I saw once a long time ago when she was working on a thesis project. But I wanted to look at again the other day and saw how lovely it really is. You should take another look! She’s a fantastic photographer and lovely writer as well.
- This movie just makes me happy. I love how she did this little thing to make work more fun.