Users spend most of their time on other sites. This means that users prefer your website to work the same way as all the other sites they already know. – Jakob Nielsen
…in which there is room for the audience to move around, imagine, and make associations. – Anne Bogart
The user/browser specifies initial preferences and hands the remaining influence over to the document. – Håkon Lie
User Author Font o-----x--------------o 64% Color o-x------------------o 90% Margin o-------------x------o 37% Volume o---------x----------o 50%
Any barrier that exists between the user and some part of the system will eventually be a barrier to creative expression. – “Design Principles Behind Smalltalk” (Byte 1981)
Under an increasing pressure to monetize the data they store, Facebook looks for ways to limit difference across the site. – Ben Grosser, How the Technological Design of Facebook Homogenizes Identity and Limits Personal Representation
The easiest fix for that biased cropping AI? No it’s not to build another AI - it’s to give people the power to select crop boundaries when posting a photo. – Amy X Zhang, Sep 19, 2020
