414: Memorable Software Moments
This week, we recall our most recent “wow” moments with the products in our lives. What are yours? In The Sidebar, we talk about different loading state strategies and their impact on the user experience.
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Show Notes
This week, we recall our most recent “wow” moments with the products in our lives. What are yours? In The Sidebar, we talk about different loading state strategies and their impact on the user experience.
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Main Topic:
This week, we recall our most recent “wow” moments with the products in our lives. What are yours?
- Raffaele Vitale asks on Twitter: what was your last and truly memorable “wow" moment you had with a digital or physical product?
- Play uses a wild drawer system to let you actually design apps on your phone. It’s very smooth.
- Hands on with iOS Live Text.
- Unlock your phone with Apple Watch when wearing a mask.
- Tonal’s dynamic weight mode is very cool.
- NFTs are weird. If you’re interested, start with this post: How to set up a crypto wallet to buy NFTs by Pablo Stanley. OpenSea is where most NFTs are being sold.
Cool Things:
- Brian shared replicate.ai/explore, a playground of machine learning programs that you can run in the browser. Check out toonify and age simulator.
- Marshall shared Survivor Season 41, but drop the 4. A whole new era!
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