UI / UX
User interfaces and “user experience” ideas.
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The issue: Sometimes, when you’re eating an ice cream out of a cone, you will suffer the indignity of having the ice cream drip onto yourself and/or the ground (see Fig. 1). This is especially likely to occur if you are less than five years old. This can be avoided by diligently rotating the cone…
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The issue: Sometimes, you’re looking for a co-worker, and you’d like to know if they’ve gone out to lunch, left for the day already, or haven’t arrived yet. Normally, you’d have to actually send a text message to that person to ask. But that can be overly intrusive. Fig. 1: Your coworker’s chair is empty.…
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Background: Have you ever had to deal with a shared refrigerator? If so, you may be familiar with the issue of old food items piling up in nooks and crannies of the fridge and never being removed. Periodically cleaning the fridge will fix this, but it’s a hassle to figure out which food is old…
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Minimize the tiny remaining inconvenience of your indefensibly opulent Caligula-esque lifestyle with this one weird “how to make a bed” sheet-tucking-in tip!
better way to make a bed, c-clamp sheets and blankets, don’t put deadly snakes in your bed probably, footboard, Goat.io, Goat.ly, GoatStarter, GoatStrtr, GtStrtr, lift a mattress, make a bed, sheets and blankets, tuck in a sheet, tuck in your sheets, use a c-clamp to make a bed, what is it it’s a footboard of course, what is the opposite of a headboard
Background: Putting new sheets onto a bed can be a hassle if your bed has a footboard (Figure 1 and 2). Fig. 1: Putting clean sheets onto a bed is really easy if there’s no footboard. But if there’s a footboard, it’s a hassle to lift up the mattress and cram the sheets and blanket…
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The issue: When you call for transportation in a crowded area (Fig. 1), it’s often unclear both: 1) For you, the pedestrian, which of the numerous indistinguishable late model imported silver cars is picking you up 2) For the driver, which of the many pedestrians is actually the one who summoned that specific car. Fig…
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Background: It’s often hard to assess the total cost of renting vs buying. For example: Renting a house (plus renters’ insurance) versus owning a house (plus homeowner’s insurance, property tax, and maintenance, and possibly offset by property value appreciation) Owning a timeshare versus renting a vacation house once a year Taking a taxi / using…
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Background: In olden times, recordings could only be viewed at home by either personal movie projector (extremely rare) or VHS player. Nowadays, digital video makes it possible for anyone to get on-demand video without the hassle of low-quality video and rewinding tapes. But perhaps the “VHS experience” is integral to getting the full effect from…
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Background: An emoji overview: Fig 1: Current Apple emoji skin tones. Available tones vary by emoji font designer (e.g., Google, Microsoft). Emoji people were originally only available with a light skin tone. Recently, more skin tone options have been added (Fig 1). However, they are just a recoloring of the original emoji, and thus may not have realistic…
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Show how classy your phone app is with REAL fake GOLD text! Gold everywhere = high class operation.
custom font, font nerd, gold font, gold leaf, helvetica, hiragino sans, my precioussssss, paypal, paypal font, phone font, sell your gold, sell your worldly possessions and adopt the life of a wandering ascetic after you give up your gold, shiny gold, specular highlight, trade in your gold now for terrible rates
Background: PayPal recently announced a new font that they are quite proud of, which, according to the designer (https://klim.co.nz/blog/paypal-sans-design-information/), features “understated elegance” and shows the “confidence and foresight to buck the neo-grotesque groupthink of their Silicon Valley brethren.” Fig 1: Left: PayPal’s new custom font. Right: this approximation in “Hiragino Sans” (a default Mac font)…
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One weird application of the “invisible fence” dog collar that’s setting the world of Internet comments on fire! And possibly also setting people on fire, depending on the amperage involved.
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Background: The staggering degree of stupidity and general mean-spiritedness of Internet comments is a well known and undeniable phenomenon. But what can be done to prevent the anonymity of the Internet from causing people to write inhumanly monstrous things in Internet comment sections? Fig 1: Even if your web site is about historical Danish model…
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