Joshua Fernandez

living a creative life

[Joshua Fernandez @Joshua_Fern]

@DanielOlimac I dont ride the metro much anymore, but this last weekend I had to go to Shekou from Longhua and back and the amount of people watching full length AI shows on their phone (the kind you watch wide screen) was suprising. The AI consumption is probably off the charts now.

[Joshua Fernandez @Joshua_Fern]

This is why photography is so much a great method to express the things happening around me. Its just easier to film and go , not thinking too much about whether its right or wrong, it just is. I just let others discuss amongst themselves over details.

[Joshua Fernandez @Joshua_Fern]

I'm better at showing whats going on in China rather than speaking in broad strokes as some people in this platform like to do. I've been in China more than 10 years and its still funny seeing people so wide eyed and enamoured over things that have just become so normal for me.

[Joshua Fernandez @Joshua_Fern]

This why Taobao is so awesome. If you have any kind of handcraft hobby, there is surely several shops with endless tools for the job that are reasonably priced. Just about every niche is included, no matter how small you think it might be.

[Joshua Fernandez @Joshua_Fern]

They are badly designed. The difference between a US designed banking app and a Chinese designed one is night and day. No amount of cultural nuance will allow me to accept my banking app should look like meituan should look like my phone service app.

[Felix Lee @felixleezd]

If you open a Chinese app for the first time, you’ll probably think it’s badly designed.

Too many icons and features. Everything crammed onto one screen.

If you grew up on Western apps, your instinct is immediate: this is cluttered.

But it works.

In the U.S., we’ve been trained to associate good UX with minimalism. In China, density often signals value.

Open WeChat or Alipay, and it feels overwhelming at first. Information-heavy, feature-packed.

But to local users, that density means capability. It says: everything you might need is already here in front of you.

If you enter a new market assuming your design taste equals good UX, you’ll misread the signal.

Good design is contextual.

[Joshua Fernandez @Joshua_Fern]

What happened to album covers just being awesome film photos and abstract paintings of natural landscapes.

[A cloud, hollow @DullClayCutter]

Wrt the accessibility of AI translated texts, I think people are conflating two things. Everyone should have access to reading a text once translated, yet not anyone should have access to translating it. AI blurs that line and that is a problem. Even when talking about human

[Joshua Fernandez @Joshua_Fern]

As we slowly submit ourselves to the ai overmind, I hope to read more stories from humans with real experiences of interacting with objects in the real world. Cameras, paper, pencils, coffee, instruments, tools, crafts.

[Joshua Fernandez @Joshua_Fern]

@sincerelysofi same here, in Shenzhen

[Joshua Fernandez @Joshua_Fern]

slow photography in Shenzhen, China. Surrounding are faces moving at breakneck speed, but slowing down and appreciating the details of each place where I'm standing is a gift I hope I don't lose.

[Joshua Fernandez @Joshua_Fern]

@DeathAngelUSA Deserves a follow

[Joshua Fernandez @Joshua_Fern]

Look what happens when I just want to pay my phone bill.

[𝙅𝙊𝙎𝙀 @jose_goncalves_]

You’re not an app designer until you’re opening loot boxes on Aliexpress as a learning activity

[Joshua Fernandez @Joshua_Fern]

More from my own version of Chinese dreamcore.

[Joshua Fernandez @Joshua_Fern]

I think my photography can quite accurately be described as "Chinese Dreamcore"

[Joshua Fernandez @Joshua_Fern]

I love Autumn and it pains me to have to be in Shenzhen (southern China) during peak autumn days. I just want to escape and get to someplace where I can be surrounded by bright reds and yellows

[Alex Wisner @AlexWisnerArt]

This sudden horror around AI is due to the realization that a significant portion of the population is actually retarded and engages with art in a retarded way. The horror comes from realizing that most people are unable to discern quality or substance. This is partially why art was the domain of the aristocracy for so long, not just because of wealth but because of taste. People like this take for granted how anything is made. AI cannot observe the world around it and be inspired to make art. Feeding GRRM's books into a robot will not get you anything substantive, because the creation of ASOIAF was not informed by its own text. It's informed by the things GRRM observed in his own life and its informed by the way he interprets history, philosophy, politics etc. But people think if you force an AI to make an incest baby, it'll somehow come up with something good or that it will be able to anticipate GRRM's thinking. This is regardless of whether or not you think ASOIAF has any artistic value in the first place. Why would you want to read anything made in such a way? It's ridiculous.

[Joshua Fernandez @Joshua_Fern]

Human beings admire this useless stuff and talk all day and night about the reasons why the useless thing is the way that it is. These random shapes, however useless, become something of admiration and curiosity.

[Maxime @maximecperoumal]

Nothing Phone is what tasteless people think design is. Random shapes, there for no reasons, trying hard to look cool, etc.

[Joshua Fernandez @Joshua_Fern]

@hausofdecline Is that keep on truckin?

[Joshua Fernandez @Joshua_Fern]

I love it when there is care and a unique touch to an object that could all well exist without it. I appreciate the creativity and the will of the person who said "no this is not enough, it needs something more"

[Joshua Fernandez @Joshua_Fern]

@f4micom Not only did it look cool, it just did one thing well. No distractions, no notifications, no apps, no bloat.