I have found something that kind of has helped with eyestrain (besides just closing the laptop and going for a walk)

1 - flux (red shift for your screen) 2 - sunglasses (a bit of a socially awkward solution, but...)

Yep, and they can be distracting. I have some cataracts that I have had to contend with from childhood =_=

This is really fascinating and the visuals are stunning!

Wow those are really nice!

lololol another golden oldie

I kinda love how OTT the site is.

On the one hand, it is important to question "what are we doing, anyway" often in order to make conscious decisions and actions. On the other hand, we all find ourselves in a specific capitalist paradigm—a game that has certain rules. Fortunately or unfortunately, in order to participate in a society, everyone (especially in societies with wealth and relative stability) has to play at least by some of the rules.

Of course, this doesn't preclude one in participating in or lending their expertise to causes that seek to change or overthrow parts of the machine you find objectionable. Finding your niche where you can do what you feel is right and still practice your craft (and eat) is one of the most burning questions of modern post-industrial society.

I hear "Bullsh*t Jobs" is a really interesting book, but I haven't read it yet.

Be happy to :)

While I still believe the Discovery phase is one of the most important (and most skipped) of the design process, I do think your point about how much of this process is really used to justify the design choices you would have made anyway?" is important for product teams to keep in mind.

I've definitely been on projects where a "solution" was proposed early on and it started to feel like a lot of the "discovery" research was being done in aid of that hypothesis, rather than a more objective interrogation of the proposed solution. We had to take a step back and do some more clean-slate thinking once we realized this, and in the end went down a different path. But that's why spending time on the discovery phase is so important. It's a fairly good (and cheap :D) crucible of pet ideas.

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