Ricardo Ángeles Things I like are here. Follow my music selection here: Sonus fm

fragmentedportraits:

Amit Gupta - October 2009 - California by Kevin Meredith aka lomokev

This Amit Gupta aka SuperAmit as he is know on flickr & twitter AKA the guy that started Photojojo.

Amit recently started feeling tired all the time, usually when this happens to a San Francisco start up CEO its just “burn out” but unfortunately this was not the case. It turns out he has Leukemia. At the moment he is going through chemo but once done he will need a bone marrow transplant for the best chance of survival. Unfortunately because of his ancestry its tough to find a donor as not many people of South Asian decent are on the transplant register. If you are off South Asian decent (Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Nepalis, Bhutan, Maldives, or Sri Lankan) you can get a free mouth swab kit to see if you are compatible donor (if you live in the United States or Puerto Rico).

If your not of South Asian decent or reside outside of the united states you can still help by: re-blogging this tumbler post and genrally spreading the word.

Please help Amit is a super cool guy he works hard and is definitely nice to people so deserves a break.

(via superamit)

(Source: brit)

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sciencecenter:

From where you’re sitting, move your face closer to the above image. Notice a change in brightness? Now move your head back. The illusion is called the dynamic luminance-gradient effect - or, more fun, the “here comes then sun” effect.

jared:

Space Camera Coolness

OMG!

simpsonsimages:

George: Hello Homer, I’m George Harrison.

Homer: Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God! Where did you get that brownie?

George: Over there…there’s a big pile of them. Gee, what a nice fella.

Geek bedtime

Watch the Startups

52weeksofux:

If you want to find the most innovative UX practitioners, watch the startups.  Startups are startup companies, newly-formed businesses made up of small teams moving extremely quickly to take advantage of an opportunity they see in the market.

Many of the innovative ways I’m seeing of gathering feedback, testing designs, rapidly evaluating customer satisfaction, and measuring customer engagement are coming straight from startups who focused squarely on finding out what works best.

Startups are able to do this for several reasons:

• Startups are Process Agnostic
  They don’t have the process baggage that big companies have. They don’t have the “we’ve always done it that way” excuse you hear so often. They don’t have established corporate hierarchies to uphold. They’re simply trying to find out what works and what doesn’t. It is remarkable how quickly this attitude changes as companies grow in size. 
• Startups are Data-driven
  Startups often have investors who force them to be data-driven. As one entrepreneur said to me the other day “Having metrics for our product makes it so much easier to talk to investors because they can quickly tell how healthy our company is and point out where to focus our design efforts”. 
• Startups use New Tools
  Startups try new things more than most. They use newer tools and techniques like user testing services (e.g. usertesting.com), remote user testing, A/B testing, and other techniques that not everyone has embraced yet.
• Startups Iterate Extremely Fast
  Startups often work fast enough to release code daily or even faster. This is a tremendous advantage over teams who have to create a new project and get permission every time they want to do something. You can learn so much faster by releasing something quickly and knowing you can take it down just as quickly. 

The one lesson that any seasoned UX practitioner will tell you is that each design project is different, with its own challenges. There is no process that guarantees success. That’s why startups, who continually try new things and iterate as fast as possible, tend to stumble on the right UX before others do. Sure, they have lots of other problems to deal with, like creating a healthy business, but paying attention to startups can offer insights you won’t find anywhere else.

This is one of the best short definitions of startup I have read.

brit:

Marge Simpson’s European Adventure - the coolest Google My Map I’ve ever seen. And trust me, I’ve seen a lot.