frwrd

(moved back to @argonaut)

[Matt Webb 🌸🌼 genmon.fyi @genmon]

Dictionary of Colour Standards, 1951 https://t.co/f0HBUYdFr9

[Design One Thing @designonething]

Happy birthday Mela Kohler. The Austrian artist, illustrator & printmaker, known for her fashion postcards for the Wiener Werkstätte and her children’s book illustrations, was born today in 1885.
#illustration #ChildrensBooks

[Shira Ovide @ShiraOvide]

welp. https://t.co/64OU8FSJKV

[Design One Thing @designonething]

Happy birthday Isamu Noguchi. The Japanese American whose wide-ranging talents included furniture design, sculpture, & landscape architecture, was born today in 1904.
#sculpture

[Design One Thing @designonething]

Happy birthday Thérèse Moll. The influential graphic designer, whose life was sadly short and is most known for her distinctively Swiss-style & being the student and contemporary of a Who's Who of designers, was born today in 1934. #graphicdesign

[Shira Ovide @ShiraOvide]

In today's On Tech:

I've been reflecting on the 2010s era of consumer startups. And feeling pessimistic about what that period of money-fueled tech mania has wrought.

Are we doing it all again, except with more money and more mania? https://t.co/IEysHBQ5CF

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

NYT: dark patterns are the techniques that companies use online to get consumers to keep subscriptions they might otherwise cancel

Also NYT: if you want to cancel your NYT subscription, you have to call this phone number during our business hours & let us talk you out of it

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

Holy shit this is the best thing the FTC has done in years

[Domus @DomusWeb]

Diabolo was the last pulley lamp designed by Achille Castiglioni for Flos. Its mechanism? It stems from his love for "interactive" design. https://t.co/iOYPqspbQw

[Lionel Page @page_eco]

This is the “Coupon collector’s problem”.
Here is how many loot boxes you’d need on average (horizontal axis) to get to complete collections of different sizes (vertical axis).
https://t.co/TUbcXJWpCB

[Lionel Page @page_eco]

Simulations of how many loot boxes you’d need to buy to complete a collection of 95 different items.
On average 488 & you’d need 712 to have 95% chance of completing the collection.
👉Loot boxes are a great way to extracts purchases from customers👈
by: https://t.co/oz0zhzp4o6

[DesignObserver @DesignObserver]

On this episode of The Futures Archive designer @moreaulee + guest co-host, Judith Anderson, discuss the history and design of the chair, and the importance of prototyping. With additional insights this week from @GalenCranz, Pat Kirkham, + @GFngr #Listen https://t.co/SzXf6XLcf6

[Design One Thing @designonething]

Happy birthday Walker Evans. The acclaimed photographer, photojournalist, writer & educator, famous for his depression-era documentary images & who taught at Yale School of Art, was born today in 1903.
#photography

[Kontra @counternotions]

FB head of global affairs Sir Nick "Shameless" Clegg on Apple ATT: "This is an old-fashioned commercial land grab where they are using their dominant position in one of the leading operating systems to tilt the scales in their favour."

(By letting users decide for themselves?)

[frwrd @frwrdnet]

On the other hand, gaming and entertainment keeps growing because they offer alternative worlds, in most cases not just a pristine, controlled version of the real one.

So, I guess, could be a compelling metaverse. If anything.

[frwrd @frwrdnet]

The FB “metaverse”, if anything, by being a replica of the real world with a patina of perfection and control, would only work for those frustrated with *their* real world.

Which tend to be older, middle aged people.

Might be where the money is, but surely not the growth.