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Don't Let AI Take Over Your Life (It's Making Us Dumber, Not Smarter)

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AI for Kids: How It Can Make or Break Their Future (And Why You Matter More Than the Machine)

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UX.Unmasked: The Home Inverter That Never Tells You Anything

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How to Use AI in Your Daily Life (Without Overthinking It)

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NORMAN DOORS

Have you ever had trouble opening doors? Meaning, you push doors that are supposed to be pulled, pull doors that should be pushed. If you continually get a door wrong, is it your fault? NO! It's the designer's fault. These kinds of doors are called "Norman Doors," named after the design guru Don Norman. A simple definition of Norman Doors would be, "Any door which is confusing or difficult to use." According to don norman, "an ideal door would be the one where you walk up to it and walk through it. You're not aware that you opened the door or shut it." You must be wondering what else can be to a door except for hanging "do not disturb" signs. Imagine a beautiful door, but you are confused about how to open it. To solve this problem, you can put a label on a door that says push or pull. But, doors usually don't have a label on them. Then you can use the vertical plate and supporting pillars to indicate what to do without messing...

Stay Hungry

Hunger, not for food, for reading. We crave food, there are a lot of reasons one of them is Emotions because we need to suppress the uncontrollable intense desire. The desire towards a particular food. We can’t live without food, likely we can’t live without reading too. I like to read new things, new books. I read to gain knowledge and entertain myself. I like to know things that others don’t know. I feel charismatic. Reading is good for people. It may help you get knowledge or it may help you fall asleep or reading might help you lower the stress through laughter or tears, and offer exposure to perspectives different from your own. For me, reading helps me to escape reality. I go into the world that I want, the way I want, a world where I am strong and I can do anything which I am not able to do in the world where I exist. This is the reason why I am always hungry for reading. Reading is the most precious gift a human can ask for. I bet you already know how to...

TRICK AND TREAT

After an exhausting day of work, I feel the need to reward myself or treat myself. Whenever possible throughout that day, I treat myself to some dark chocolate and one or two episodes of an anime. This treat makes my day! Never punish yourself for not being productive. You may think it will adequately affect you because, for some people, punishment relieves frustration. But the truth is punishment creates trauma. No matter how busy you are, always find time to treat yourself to something you desire, it may be food, tv show, or reading a book. You will see the results of this little trick in your work. You will be more productive. Photo by amirali mirhashemian on Unsplash

TIME IS NEVER RIGHT

Time waits for no one. Time affects your day-to-day life. Time affects you. If you are waiting for the right time to come, then you are screwed. You must keep in mind the three things listed above. Don't ever wait for the right time to come. Time can leave you with regrets. Kill those damn excuses: I don't have time. I am too tired. Now is not the right time. Its too hard Never rely on time ever. If you keep thinking, I have two hours to finish the five-minute job. Boom!, your two hours have elapsed. And you didn't get the job done. So, start doing things now, don't wait for 5 a.m. or the so-called right time. You know it, I know it, it will never come. Remember to move forward, never backward. Cherish the memories you have spent at that time. So, you can look back and smile, remembering it. You can't treasure time, but you can treasure memories.

Beyond The Wall

The Wall is huge. It was built by Brandon the Builder. It keeps the evil away from the good and if evil tries to surpass The Wall, Nights Watch is there to defend the good. The Headquarters of the Watch is Castle Black. The Sworn Brothers of The Nights Watch defend it. They train hard every day, cook food for themselves, wash their own clothes, basically they do everything on their own. The Watch sends some men Beyond the Wall every morning for surveillance and they cut off every tree in one mile of the distance so that the evil cant use any cover to surprise attack them. Nights Watch has less than a thousand Brothers left to defend every part of the Wall. With the numbers, the Watch has they can cover only Castel Black, East Watch By The Sea, and The Shadow Tower. Jon Snow joins the Watch with his uncle Benjen. Jon is happy. The day after Jon joins the Watch his uncle Benjen leaves Beyond the Wall on a ranging because that is his job as the First Ranger. Jon asks to go w...

WHAT'S UP YOUTUBE!

A lot of famous actors are posting videos on YouTube. Everyone is a creator on YouTube. I'm not saying that actors shouldn't be making videos on YouTube. Real YouTubers are the ones who are creating quality content for their audience. YouTubers who work on their content for a week or a month are not getting much recognition. And they post content regularly. Nowadays, everyone wants to watch an actor or a celebrity do a flip or cook half-naked on YouTube. I mean, they are already famous, everyone recognizes them. The truth is that it requires a tremendous amount of effort, a specific set of skills, lots of research, planning, creativity, consistency, time management to make a quality video on YouTube. It's not like you wake-up, brush your teeth, record yourself cooking half-naked, and Voilà! You got yourself a video with millions of views within a couple of hours. P.S. No offense, famous actors. Photo by Alexander Shatov on Unsplash

The Doherty Threshold: Optimize System, Web, and App Performance for Happy Use

Photo by NASA on Unsplash What is Doherty Threshold? Performance is crucial when it comes to system, web, and application design. How fast a system or application runs can make all the difference in user experience. But what happens when a system or application is used beyond its limits? This is where the concept of the Doherty threshold comes into play. The Doherty threshold is a concept that explains the maximum amount of performance that a system or application can deliver before it starts to experience diminishing returns. It is named after William Doherty, an electrical engineer who worked on developing amplifiers in the 1930s. Imagine you have a car engine. When you first turn it on, it runs smoothly, and you can drive at a certain speed. However, if you push the car too hard, the engine will start to struggle, and the car will not perform as well as it should. Productivity soars when a computer and its users interact at a pace (<400ms) that ensures that neither has to wait o...

UX.Unmasked - The McDonald's Sanitizer Incident: A Tale of Mistaken Identity

A few weeks ago my friend and I went to the mall because we were bored. As usual, we stopped at H&M and looked at a few clothes - my friend was looking for these jeans he wanted to buy since, before the pandemic, he was waiting for the SALE . We visited a lot of shops. Not going to lie, but window shopping is fun. Later, we stopped at McDonald's and got two burgers, which were okay, and fries, oh, I love McDonald's fries with peri-peri seasoning 🍟. Photo by Visual Karsa on Unsplash Everything was going well. We finished the meal and washed our hands. I told my friend we should sanitize our hands because it has become a habit. My friend was looking for hand sanitizer. He spotted it at McDonald's counter, there was only one guy behind the counter, and he was looking at us. My friend took the bottle labeled sanitizer , and we used it. As we were leaving, the guy behind the counter said, and I quote, " sir, it's not a hand sanitizer. It's a table cleaning ...

AI for Kids: How It Can Make or Break Their Future (And Why You Matter More Than the Machine)

AI isn't raising your kids. You are. The machine is just a tool in the room. Here's a number that should stop you mid-scroll. Nearly three in four teenagers have already used an AI companion, a chatbot built to act like a friend, and about a third of them have picked that bot over a real person for a serious conversation . Read that again. Not homework. Not a quick fact. A serious conversation. The kind you'd hope they would bring to you. That's the part most “AI and kids” articles quietly skip. They argue about whether AI helps with schoolwork. The bigger shift is more personal: AI is slipping into the space where thinking, and sometimes feeling, used to happen. Whether that turns out well or badly for your kid comes down to one variable no app controls. You. This isn't a pros-and-cons list that ends with “so supervise your child.” By the end you'll have a simple test you can apply to any AI moment, and a three-move playbook that fits on an index card. First, s...

UX.Unmasked: The Home Inverter That Never Tells You Anything

The lights stay on, so you never notice the grid died, until the inverter drains and everything goes dark at once. I have an inverter at home, and it has quietly taught me more about UX than most apps I've studied. Not because it's well designed. Because it really isn't. Here's the situation. When the grid power goes out, my inverter kicks in instantly. The lights stay on. The fans keep spinning. The TV doesn't even flicker. Which sounds perfect, until you notice the problem: I have no idea the power is actually gone. There's no clear signal. The room looks exactly the same as it did a second ago. So I carry on using electricity like normal, right up until the battery drains and everything dies at once. That blackout is usually the first time I learn the grid went down, maybe an hour ago. There is a small beep when the power cuts, but it's so faint that the TV, a conversation, or honestly any other sound swallows it whole. This is a textbook UX failure, and ...

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