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Next, we set about dissecting the problem at hand like any good Agile team would — user stories. It took us about half a package of Post-It notes before we realized that our hours of carefully-honed user empathy workshops didn’t prepare us to deal with non-human customers, so Ananya had the brilliant idea to peek into the…
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semillero / incubator
I recently received news that an incubator I worked on while on sabbatical in Colombia has gotten institutional support from the Universidad Sur Colombiana. this is great news. This means that the “let’s make a game” game can startup in the town where I was born. the first cohort is made up of first-year students…
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Get with the times, HasBros. Why are your toys gendered at all any more? Are they sex toys you need certain genitalia to use? And why are the shitty, sexed up, bullshit toys labeled for girls, while the cool Star Wars ones are labeled for boys? You’re literally setting artificial boundaries for the play time…
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semillero / incubator
I recently received news that an incubator I worked on while on sabbatical in Colombia has gotten institutional support from the Universidad Sur Colombiana. this is great news. This means that the “let’s make a game” game can startup in the town where I was born. the first cohort is made up of first-year students…
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femfreq: “We’re the reason we can’t have nice things on the internet” is a must read article by Whitney Phillips about online harassment with suggestions on how to start solving the problem. Be sure to also check out her book This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream…
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Traces – Physical programming of freeform folding in soft matter
Traces – Physical programming of freeform folding in soft matter h/t to @notational. The project employs Processing, but could also have been explored without code. Unfortunately, Creative Applications fails to mention why the use of Processing or of the vector drawing program, Adobe Illustrator, offers any unique advantages over India Ink and a ruling pen.…