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While we've been fixated on the point technology overwhelms human strength, we've missed the point when technology undermines human weakness.
That's the true 'singularity'.
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Aza Raskin
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Aza Raskin
@aza
Co-founder for Center for Humane Technology & Earth Species Project.
Co-Host of Your Undivided Attention.
San Francisco
Joined February 2008
- I used to believe that my job as a designer was optimizing for ease of use. That was myopic. It can lead to dire consequences.Born 15 years ago today: the infinite scroll. Then-22-year-old Aza Raskin's innovation was spurred by his frustration with Google's multi-page search results. He now regrets creating the feature and its role in keeping people glued to their phones. bit.ly/InfiniteScroll…
GIF - Want your CSS rotates and scales to be beautifully antialiased? For webkit, add "box-shadow: 0 0 1px transparent;" and it will be.
- 1. Amazon's revenue drops 1% for every 100ms slower their page loads. 2. To influence elections/manipulate belief, the government just needs to lean on a telco to slow down loading times of dissenting sites. 3. The political implications for ending #NetNeutrality is terrifying.
- As the person who created it… shows the massive hole in our design philosophy: Optimizing for ease-of-use does not mean best for the user or humanity. UX is locally moral but globally amoral. It asks "how do I make this ergonomic" not "is it ergonomic to our values or society"This Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more
- Garfield minus Garfield is particularly poignant and existential right now. garfieldminusgarfield.net
- The hardest part of design isn't design, and the hardest part of coding isn't coding. The hardest part is influencing people.
- The #1 priority for all of us is to stop making products that prey on human cognitive biases to maximize engagement/stock price.
- Excited to release a collab with singer @zia_cora 🎉! It's a music video for her new single 'Submarines' that I created with the latest research AI. I'm still 🤯 by the AI's lyricism & power. The song is dark and tinged with hope, just like this tech. youtu.be/uG8vItscFKc
- This is what you get when you type "climate change is" into Google. Three of four results say hoax. If you can make something trend, you make it true. Algorithmic recommendations become an autocomplete for the human mind. Google, take responsibility for your tacit endorsements.
- One of my lessons from infinite scroll: that optimizing something for ease-of-use does not mean best for the user or humanity.#SocialMediaAddiction The creator of the infinite scrolling feature, Aza Raskin, had a noble intention when he went about designing this feature. According to Raskin, time worth 200,000 human lifetimes is wasted on a daily basis due to our act of infinite scrolling.
- As the person who created it… shows the massive hole in our design philosophy: Optimizing for ease-of-use does not mean best for the user or humanity. UX is locally moral but globally amoral. It asks "how do I make this ergonomic" not "is it ergonomic to our values or society"
- Facebook is aware that foreign state actors are using the Facebook platform to undermine US interest and @FrancesHaugen believes their consistent understaffing of counter espionage, information, and terrorism teams is a national security issue.
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