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Christoph Ono
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Designer & developer. Helping improve bitcoin design with many others at https://bitcoin.design . I write a weekly update at https://gbks.substack.com . ✌️

Nice one. You could elide the npub ("npub 1kva ... 8467"). The Nuts and version could probably be hidden behind an info button, as non-devs will have no idea what those mean without extra research.

I used Penpot (http://penpot.app) for a presentation at FOSS Backstage last week. It worked great, with a few small hiccups. If you're not ready to go 100% Penpot yet, I'd recommend trying it for smaller design tasks (and give the team feedback). One step at a time.

Not sure what you mean, the center parties are still the strongest. Not everything follows this caricature of left/right that seems to be so prevalent online these days.

Maybe take a closer look. The raid was already planned a month before Habeck talked to the police. The old guy had also posted some nasty Nazi content. https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/schwachkopf-beleidigung-razzia-bei-rentner-war-vor-habecks-anzeige-geplant-a-c3f0062f-5d9e-49b5-b02e-53693cf4036a

And you know, freedom of speech has to be weighed against the rights of others and responsibility towards society. The internet is a public place. Yelling at people on the sidewalk, trying to mislead them with made-up nonsense, etc is problematic. Why should it be OK online? Cool to do that in private places (online or offline), but public places deserve a bit more respect. So maybe some people should get in trouble for being nasty.

It's obviously a very tricky balance that requires continuous vigilance and negotiation. But I do think we're in a decent place in this regard in Germany.

Maybe I also just don't understand the attraction of shit-posting. Seems pretty pointless to me.

Did my usual voting day routine. Show up at 8 right when they open and then go for a run. I hope we get a strong Germany (and Europe) to tackle our short- and mid-term geopolitical challenges and economic issues, while also staying on track on longer-term climate goals. And no more right-wing nonsense, please.

Certainly can be at times. But also plenty of times when it's an awesome place and you're surrounded by fantastic people.

Defining user experience design is pretty straightforward. Our life is a linear series of events. Things we had never heard of slide into our awareness. Maybe someone tells us about something, maybe we walk around and see something or someone, etc. You brain tries to make sense of it based on existing experiences, familiar patterns, etc. Via more exposure, you form a better understanding.

Apps are the same. Someone hears about it and wants to figure out generally what it's for. They see it and form a split-second opinion based on initial presentation. They decide to read about the features/benefits. They download it and use it, etc. At each step information is gathered and decisions are made. Maybe they get it right away, maybe they struggle. Maybe this happens in 1 minute, or over 2 months, etc.

As a user experience designer, you consider this general sequence of events, and the many ways people can experience it across all possible touch points, and try to create smooth pathways for people. And you typically have to balance user needs & wants, tech possibilities and limitations, business needs, human psychology, available resources, and other stuff. It's a huge balancing act that benefits from tight collaboration.

YMMV

When a user sees this, what should their take-away and next actions be?

Every cycle ends up with some mechanism breaking because it gets overstretched or poorly executed. Might this be it?

My talk for FOSS Backstage about the Open Design Guide (http://opendesign.guide) was accepted. There are several other talks about the role of design(ers) in the line-up. Looking forward to it. https://25.foss-backstage.de/sessions/