Studio MdO

Building the future's digital experiences

[Augmental @augmentaltech]

MouthPad is a touchpad you drive with your tongue.

Now available across the US.

[Studio MdO @studio_mdo]

@oasisdevices Can I use this ring with SuperWhisper? Or does it have to be with Wispr Flow?

[wukko @uwukko]

it may actually be the worst landing page for a browser i've seen yet

why does text on all buttons scroll up and down? why is there no real info about the browser? what's up with the scroll hijacking? why are there random and meaningless planets that you have to scroll through?

[Studio MdO @studio_mdo]

@robably__ Right, most people are right handed. Thumb on mobile extends to the right exit button easier? I also would wager that most of the close buttons on modals are right-side, which would add more points for that version given a convention being set.

[Ilya Miskov @ilyamiskov]

My initial problem with Liquid Glass was that it was terrible for accessibility despite how beautiful it looks it certain places.

There is literally only one way to solve this readability issue – make the glass frosted/opaque. And from the public backlash that Apple received it was pretty obvious that it was a matter of time before they made this change.

The problem now is that when you make it opaque, it barely looks any different from iOS 18, yet it keeps eating up resources and draining your battery.

3 betas in, and I still feel like this design direction was a big mistake.

[Studio MdO @studio_mdo]

This whole debacle is a great case study about when design teams abandon usability as the primary objective

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

This has been an entertaining timeline, as Apple slowly walks back liquid glass into more... frosted glass

[Neil Chudleigh @neilsuperduper]

my son asked me, dad why don't people build UI like this anymore.

slowly i turned to him, and told him the uncomfortable truth.

"we can't, we dont know how to do it."

[Aleks @aleksliving]

airbnb is really cooking with this iconography

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Omg skeuomorph 3d is coming back?

[Office of Nuclear Energy | US Department of Energy @GovNuclear]

Step inside one of the largest hot cells in the U.S. to see how researchers handle radioactive materials.

[Deedy @deedydas]

1. Take a screen recording explaining your app
2. Upload it to YouTube
3. "Build me this”

Gemini 2.5’s ability to comprehend video feels straight out of a science fiction novel.

[Ege @egeberkina]

GPT-4o + JSON = next-level visuals with precision and style!

Prompt 👇

[Holden Culotta @Holden_Culotta]

President Trump just nominated Dr. Casey Means as Surgeon General! 🔥

This is a HUGE win for MAHA.

Watch Dr. Means EXPOSE the corruption of our healthcare system last year:

“I took zero nutrition courses in medical school.”

“I learned virtually nothing at Stanford Medical School about the tens of thousands of scientific papers that elucidate the root causes of why American health is plummeting.”

“I did not learn that for each additional serving of ultra-processed food we eat, early mortality increases by 18%.”

“I didn’t learn that 82% of independently-funded studies show harm from processed food, while 93% of industry-sponsored studies reflect no harm.”

“I didn’t learn that 95% of the people who created the recent USDA food guidelines for America had significant conflicts of interest with the food industry.”

“I did not learn that one billion pounds of synthetic pesticides are being sprayed on our foods every single year.”

“99% of the farmland in the United States is sprayed with synthetic pesticides … and these invisible, tasteless chemicals are strongly linked to autism, ADHD, sex hormone disruption, thyroid disease, sperm dysfunction, Alzheimer’s, dementia, birth defects, cancer, obesity, liver dysfunction, female infertility and more.”

“I did not learn that the 8 billion tons of plastic that have been produced just in the last 100 years … are being broken down into microplastics that are now filling our food, our water, and we are now even inhaling them in our air, and that very recent research … tells us that now about 0.5% of our brains by weight are plastic.”

“I didn’t learn that there are more than 80,000 toxins that have entered our food, water, air, and homes by industry, many of which are banned in Europe, and they are known to alter our gene expression, alter our microbiome composition and the lining of our gut, and disrupt our hormones.”

“I didn’t learn that heavy metals like aluminum and lead are present in our food, our baby formula, personal care products, our soil, and many of the mandated medications like vaccines, and that these metals are neurotoxic and inflammatory.”

“I didn’t learn that the average American walks a paltry 3,500 steps per day even though we know, based on science and top journals, that simply walking 7,000 steps a day slashes by 40-60% our risk of Alzheimer’s, dementia, type 2 diabetes, cancer, and obesity.”

“I certainly did not learn that medical error and medications are the third-leading cause of death in the US.”

“I didn’t learn that just five nights of sleep deprivation can induce full-blown pre-diabetes. I learned nothing about sleep, and we’re getting about 20% less sleep on average than we were 100 years ago.”

“I didn’t learn that American children are getting less time outdoors now than a maximum security prisoner, and on average, adults spend 93% of their time indoors, even though we know from the science that separation from sunlight destroys our circadian biology, and circadian biology dictated our cellular biology.”

“I didn’t learn that professional organizations that we get out practice guidelines from, like the American Diabetes Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics, have taken tens of millions of dollars from Coke, Cadbury, processed food companies and vaccine manufacturers like Moderna.”

“I didn’t learn that if you address these root causes that all lead to metabolic dysfunction and help patients change their food and lifestyle patterns … we could reverse the chronic disease crisis in America, save millions of lives and trillions of dollars in healthcare costs per year.”

“This is a spiritual crisis. We are choosing death over life, we are choosing darkness over light.”

“We need a return to courage. We need a return to common sense and intuition. We need a return to awe for the sheer miraculousness of our lives.”

“We need all hands on deck.”

@CaseyMeansMD

[I Love To Talk Film @ILoveToTalkFilm]

🎬 The Phantom Menace (1999)
I'm done pretending this is a bad movie. Flawed? Yes. But bad?

Maybe it’s better said like this: The highest of highs and the lowest of lows.

The highs? John Williams delivers one of the best scores of the '90s. The music is masterful. The sound design is elite. Technically—clunky CGI aside—this movie doesn’t get the credit it deserves. The lightsaber duels are fun, and everything about Darth Maul rocks.

What about the low-lows? I know Star Wars, at its heart, is a children's film, but Jar Jar is about as annoying as a movie character can get. And... somehow, the child actor playing Anakin... Well, enough has already been said on the matter. But even more than Jar Jar, it’s the single biggest issue I have with the movie.
But the trade stuff!?? I teach economics—I actually like that shit!

The Phantom Menace was the third movie I ever saw in theaters, back when I was ten years old. I don’t have as strong a connection to it as I do the other two. For whatever reason, the other two played on repeat in my house, and this one never did. I’ve probably seen the others ten times more than this one.
Still, it was an important movie for me as a kid.

I can’t believe I’m saying this, but… at least as of today, I prefer The Phantom Menace to at least two-thirds of the latest Star Wars trilogy.

[Smoke-away @SmokeAwayyy]

o3 Prompt: "What does the future of humanity look like?

Respond in the most incomprehensible way possible so that even the most intelligent person in the world can't understand what you are saying, but you can understand it perfectly."

[Jordan Jenkins @jkane]

Me going back to Figma after spending 30 minutes in Adobe Illustrator

[gabriel @gabriel1]

"but you don't actually learn anything when you just ask chatgpt"

no one is forcing you to not ask 100s of follow ups,
thinking through the answer before asking, or reading through old chats to do repetition. not learning faster from llms is not a preference, it's a skill issue

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

CEO of Nintendo America: Doug Bowser
Fastest sprinter of all time: Usain Bolt
COO of Starbucks: Rosalind Brewer
World record chili pepper breeder: Ed Currie
CEO of Capital One bank: Richard Fairbank
BBC Weather meteorologist: Sara Blizzard

https://t.co/BkWWOoSQ2N

[Web Design Museum @WebDesignMuseum]

The diversity of horizontal navigation in 2004

#WebDesignHistory

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

"The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your thoughts." – Marcus Aurelius