What is the point of design? I think that the point of design is to take something people want and make it intuitive and delightful for them to use. Paul Graham always says, "make something people want." It's a great maxim. Where design comes in is in the making, so to speak. Design takes certain principles and applies them to the making of the product to make sure that when the user gets it, they find that they can use it, and that they enjoy using it. After all, something people want can be...

I've had two deja vu moments on Farcaster this year. Oddly enough, I can't quite remember one of them. But the other was talking to Kenny about how communities make decisions and execute the results of those decisions onchain. Somehow, we started out talking about AirSwap and ended up talking about decentralised decision making.Chukwuka Osakwe on Warpcastairswap is decentralised and it wasn't about wrapping tokens. what is going on?FarcasterI realised it was a deja vu moment when Kenny sent m...

I was researching how the Ethereum Attestation Service (EAS) works late last year and I had a simple idea for a basic service that uses EAS to show that people have done something onchain. I wrote about it in a Figma frame and forgot about it until I came across Commit.wtf a few weeks ago. Figma frame with the idea for EAS attestations as proof of irl workCommit is, in the words of its founder, "an onchain accountability protocol." The idea is for people to commit to things onchain openly and...

TL;DR The more I take action, the less anxious I feel. I am currently trying to get into a proper design career, and I am finding it terrifying because I am always afraid of doing new things. I like staying on the beaten path and doing things I am familiar with. With new things there is a very good possibility that you end up failing, or worse, looking like a fool. But this year I am trying more and more to go after the things that I find interesting, to try stuff. With this attempt to make a...

The Aesthetic-Usability EffectThere is a principle in design known as the aesthetic-usability effect. In a nutshell, this effect posits a strong correlation in a user's mind between how aesthetically pleasing a product is perceived to be and its functionality. When users encounter a product, they are likely to consider the more aesthetically pleasing products as more functional and easier/better to use. This perception exists regardless of how easy using the product is. For those who work in ...

For five months or so last year I was obsessed with work. I typically worked 12-hour days, six days a week, taking only Sundays off to re...

In 2020 during the COVID lockdowns I was spiraling mentally and in a bid to stem that spiral I started taking very long walks. I cannot remember why ...

Here is a question: "what might be the ultimate effect of computers being able to mimic the creative and artistic process so well that learning the c...

I am increasingly distressed by what the internet is becoming — a hellhole.Social media, in particular, has become an attention span-destroying, soul...

Towards the end of last year I had to learn how to stand still again. To stare a really difficult situation in the face and deliberately decide to st...