Just wanted to let you know that your writings feel like a fresh air our modern society desperately needed. Like a little yellow Comic Sans in the era of colorless, AI-coded Helvetica. Love it.
"Above all, a friction-full experience is another reminder that someone had to build this with their hands." This feels particularly salient today, when most people don't know modern code. It's so complex now and it's easier to let a professional do it, like how all new cars are basically computers at this point. I remember how to embed html links from computer science in junior high and that's about it.
Most people will use sites like Squarespace or Substack or some other premade template to build a page, so they all end up looking and feeling the same. There are SO many analogs to this, like Pinterest-derived interior design or Instagrammable restaurants. Bad UX feels particularly handmade because it's something someone probably did cobble together themselves.
Thanks so much for the great read. Excited for more of your work and to follow your experiment!
Thank u so much for your thoughtful notes!!! Remember the days we’d learn CSS just to customize your tumblr page …. I love seeing wonky websites where its creators had to literally specify pixels for margins
GOD if we could go back to the Tumblr heyday I wouldn't be mad about it!
It's so funny being old enough to look back on digital and internet technologies with rose-tinted glasses. I built a Final Fantasy VII fan site on Angelfire when I was a tween and it's hard not to get a little nostalgic about using the internet as an extension of idiosyncratic passion instead of just getting fed ads for bedsheets or bikinis or whatever.
Thank you for your kind words!!! It really means a lot - I think we’re collectively forgetting about the beauty of so-called ‘errors’ in the digital space!
Just wanted to let you know that your writings feel like a fresh air our modern society desperately needed. Like a little yellow Comic Sans in the era of colorless, AI-coded Helvetica. Love it.
"Above all, a friction-full experience is another reminder that someone had to build this with their hands." This feels particularly salient today, when most people don't know modern code. It's so complex now and it's easier to let a professional do it, like how all new cars are basically computers at this point. I remember how to embed html links from computer science in junior high and that's about it.
Most people will use sites like Squarespace or Substack or some other premade template to build a page, so they all end up looking and feeling the same. There are SO many analogs to this, like Pinterest-derived interior design or Instagrammable restaurants. Bad UX feels particularly handmade because it's something someone probably did cobble together themselves.
Thanks so much for the great read. Excited for more of your work and to follow your experiment!
Thank u so much for your thoughtful notes!!! Remember the days we’d learn CSS just to customize your tumblr page …. I love seeing wonky websites where its creators had to literally specify pixels for margins
GOD if we could go back to the Tumblr heyday I wouldn't be mad about it!
It's so funny being old enough to look back on digital and internet technologies with rose-tinted glasses. I built a Final Fantasy VII fan site on Angelfire when I was a tween and it's hard not to get a little nostalgic about using the internet as an extension of idiosyncratic passion instead of just getting fed ads for bedsheets or bikinis or whatever.
Thank you for your kind words!!! It really means a lot - I think we’re collectively forgetting about the beauty of so-called ‘errors’ in the digital space!