The early warning system also delivers messages like “Let me describe how PMS feels and let you know when it’s here and how we can both avoid a blowout over something small” and “Tears are good for me and do not signal that you’re a bad person or should fix something. Just hang out and make some mild sounds of support.”

“I’m here to honor your truest desires, and you’re here to honor mine. When that’s not possible, it’s simple and there’s no reason for either party to feel guilty or enraged about it, as long as we’re clear with each other.” and also “Sometimes I get pissed about nothing anyway and so do you, I’ll bet. We are animals and that’s okay.” An early warning system can also say, “I love you but you’re not as curious or passionate about me as I’d prefer, so I’m going to move on.”

When a human is in love and wants EVERYTHING from someone else, so much that they feel fully surrendered to that person, I’d define that as intimate, but only if it creates an opening for more truth, more honesty, more connection.

Here is my early warning system: “I am allergic to speed, danger, arguments that ramble on in the absence of clear ideas or principles, emotional evasion, and the words ‘Calm down.’” More to the point: If we’re sleeping together, you’ll need to take my emotions seriously, even when you might define them as irrational. If I say I’m crying because the sky is green, telling me the sky is blue isn’t helpful. I’m a different animal than you. Show some respect for my unique processor.”

You have feelings and you need to show them. You have desires and preferences and you need to tell the truth about what they are from the start.

Steve Jobs said it beautifully: "Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works."I’ll say it another way: Design is the act of intentionally trying to influence an outcome.Design is a means of controlling our destiny. Design is a way to reject a status quo we dislike. Design is how we don’t turn into the "this is fine" dogDesign is what we humans have been doing since the dawn of our existence because we were blessed with oh-so-large brains housing that marvelous prefrontal cortex which gave us the ability to plan.Our hunter-gatherer ancestor was designing when she decided to plant seeds to prevent future hunger. Admiral Nelson was designing when he issued a surprise flank formation to overcome a navy twice his size. Taylor Swift was designing when she brushed her hand casually across his and masterminded that last relationship.Design is a sword against chaos. Design is the pixie dust for innovation. Design is the foundation for the pursuit of happiness.

Hookup culture aligned well with our “factory settings,” as it were——so much so that it would hardly occur to a group of male friends to discuss the issue. A group of college boys discussing hookup culture would be rather like a group of old-school cowboys spontaneously debating the merits of gun culture.

when I glimpsed her in person at last, I was dis-disillusioned. It wasn’t that I had been wrong, exactly: she did look malnourished and possibly tubercular. But what she lacked in anatomical perfection she made up for in physical charisma, of the sort that athletes and dancers and other vitally corporeal types emanate as they move. She swept into the party in a jangle of jewelry and a blur of amorphous fabric, her fingers clanking with rings. Space crackled around her. Lesser people dutifully assembled, like royal subjects, to listen to her pontificate about something inane in her smoky, mellifluous voice. She smelled herbal, but glamorously so, and I was mesmerized by the way she gestured, with sharp staccato movements, as if she were conducting a jerky symphony. Years later, when I watched footage of Elizabeth Holmes, I could not shake the sensation that they were somehow twinned, even though they looked nothing alike—the one blonde and hulking, the other gangly and brunette. Both were compelling in a specifically aesthetic way, but neither was even attractive.

Interstellar was particularly praised for its scientific accuracy, which led to the publication of two academic papers.[118][119] The American Journal of Physics called for it to be shown in school science lessons.

could send medical staff to the worst-hit regions of the world, both in order to help them in their hour of need, and in order to gain valuable experience.

“None of this shit's going to happen Dry. The real world’s going to chop you up and spit you out. You're going to be stuck in the rat race, clocking in, clocking off, packed onto the tube, just like all of us.”

“Distractable people get more done when there is someone else there, even if he isn’t coaching or assisting them.” If you’re facing a task that is dull or difficult, such as cleaning out your closets or pulling together your receipts for tax time, get a friend to be your body double.

Next time you need to avoid saying yes, use “I don’t” in your refusal, to reinforce the helpful behavior of saying no to things that aren’t worth it.

Make Form Input Faster

Increase Form Conversion

Decide on Mobile Navigation

Avoid Loading Indicators

Reduce Errors in Forms

Make Apps Feel Faster

Communicate Hidden Gestures

“Motion should above all else help guide users, providing them with the right information at the right time.” — Google

When users interact with your product, they might ask following questions:“What’s most important here?”“How do I know what to do next?”“How do I know I have completed my task?”

If you can create an image that sticks with someone and they inject meaning into it, you’ve done something amazing.

Building navigation based on tasks and content means breaking down what tasks people will be performing, and what they’ll see along the way, and mapping out relationships between the two. Determine how tasks relate to one another — which tasks are more or less important, which tasks are siblings, which ones nest inside one another, and which tasks will be performed more or less often.

crucial difference between telling a story and clicking through screens.

Good UX motion design isn’t simply animating assets. Whether we’re injecting delight and playfulness, defining scalable new patterns, or conceptualizing a crazy new product, motion tells a story.

One of the most notable behavioral distinctions between digital adopters and natives is the latter’s preference for interaction over passive consumption.

After all we call it human centered design for a reason. If you want to create something memorable, inspiring, and meaningful tapping into emotion provokes a powerful response, and can lift even the simplest of experiences into something people love to use.

“Our interfaces are really just ways to try to repackage time so that it’s meaningful, so that we can do stuff with it. It’s not that there isn’t enough time but rather that there’s too much of it.”

Google’s Matias Duarte observed that “it’s much more positive, engaging, delightful, and stimulating” to directly manipulate something instead of clicking and waiting for a response.

By truly understanding the behavioral shifts and evolving language in our digital spaces, we can begin to design appropriately for the problems we see now and anticipate the potential of what is to come.

Ask yourself: Is this experience a pleasure to use, does it offer meaning, does it provoke an emotion?

Good user experience design is often invisible because it’s not just about how something looks, but instead about how it works. My friend and colleague Drew Shimomura helps distinguish between visual design and UX this way: “Visual design says ‘make it clear and simple’ while UX says ‘don’t make me think.’”

A text document packed with information feels daunting, but a lesson broken down into cards feels manageable.

The swiping gestures give users a sense of completion with each card and stack

it was important to keep the essence of what the motions were trying to accomplish, i.e focusing the attention of the user on what is happening and giving him a sense of spatial order within the app.

Motion here provides spatial location

The icons being aligned with the security chip, guiding the users’ eyes straight down.

Up to a certain threshold, we snap the bar in place so the user doesn’t have to do too much finger travel to get to this state.