Cliff Kuang

UX designer. Author of "User Friendly," “a tour de force” — @nytimes. ex @wired. Founder @fastcodesign.

[Cliff Kuang @cliffkuang]

It was always my hope to write something that helped the broader world understand the stakes involved in UX...

[Vince Picone @vppicone]

@dylanw User Friendly by @cliffkuang. Covers the consequences of getting UX right from self driving cars to nuclear power plants. A brilliant, seminal work in my opinion.

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@joshtpm And people said he was nuts the whole time!

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: Ken Burns just delivered the clearest and strongest arguments for why we need to stop Donald Trump in November. Burns has long remained politically neutral, but not this time. The stakes are too high. Retweet so all Americans see.

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@genmon An idea I had recently was to see comments and responses — text based sure, but multi media too — in a 3D space. Which might overcome context collapse and all the usability issues of threads? Like imagine seeing the *shape* of a debate and how ideas influenced each other

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@seefeld Genius FR

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@DianaBudds Ah

[Nick Pinto @macfathom]

NYPD leadership is sending drones to surveil demonstrations in support of Gaza residents and saying stuff like this: https://t.co/8IP7OSdFif

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@DianaBudds Why on earth do they do this??

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@Eve6 Jesus this is poetic

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@MikeIsaac I feel like most CEOs fight the last war, and fight what their employees want to build. Smallest violin etc, but still. It’s a strange place to be, which the wire uniquely depicts

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@MikeIsaac It’s also super well done how they show his progressive disconnect w his actual business. Which is a great bookend w Marlo taking that corner back after his trial

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@MikeIsaac His jail time didn’t have an iconic shot because the wire was horribly shot in general. But it’s a counterpoint to the goodfellas scene where they’re cooking dinner in jail and still their world revolves around them

[The Tennis Letter @TheTennisLetter]

Coco Gauff says she believes in climate change & can’t be mad at the protesters:

“I believe in climate change. I don’t know exactly what they were protesting.. I 100% believe there are things we could do better. Would I prefer it not happening in my match? 100%. It is what it is.. moments like this are history defining moments. I wasn’t pissed at the protesters. I always speak about preaching what you believe in. It was done in a peaceful way. I can’t get too mad at it.. if that’s what they felt they needed to do to get their voices heard I can’t really get upset at it.” ❤️

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

We should all be furious that as a summer of climate fueled event wreaks havok on our planet more isn't being done to stem the tide.

Record heatwaves, record floods, record droughts, record wildfires. How many more records before we #ActOnClimate?

#climate #renewables

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@MClendaniel Incredible. Trust me when I say: keep a log of all this kooky shit.

[Cliff Kuang @cliffkuang]

@TeodorKristens2 @getpeid @AustinCarr @TimSweeneyEpic @McAfee @satyanadella @sundarpichai @MatiasDuarte @dickc @twitter @danhardendesign @fredbould And, fwiw, is exactly that base that allows anyone these days to imagine an LLM powers OS layer that doesn’t require a brand new developer platform. So imagine what that analogy could bring elsewhere. Apple knows it’ll go faster if there’s protocol adoption. Hence Matter

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@TeodorKristens2 @getpeid @AustinCarr @TimSweeneyEpic @McAfee @satyanadella @sundarpichai @MatiasDuarte @dickc @twitter @danhardendesign @fredbould You need interoperable standards. No one complains about websites only loading on certain viewers. Because the http protocol was built into every innovation that followed

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@kayvanCM @round A distinction I would offer is design that re-solves old problems, and design the confronts new ones. The latter doesn’t readily map to the former.

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@kayvanCM @round The champions of “community-lead” design are often still just humping a trend, and remain asshole “vision guys” in the studio

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@AustinCarr @TimSweeneyEpic @McAfee @satyanadella Imagine if in 2007 jobs had said “but to get a new iPhone you have to get a special phone number that only works on iPhone.” The FTC wouldn’t have allowed it

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@AustinCarr @TimSweeneyEpic @McAfee @satyanadella If I were sundar this would be my be if my top 3 priorities. I’d back a dump truck of money into every lobbyist in DC. Because right now, iMessage makes apple to android switching prohibitively improbable.