tl;dr #012
w/c 20210920
Hi, we’re Love + Money, we be representin' Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Auckland and Beppu. And this is our weekly newsletter, tl;dr, figured we’d freshen things up and start your week off this way, welc.
It’s a moderate overshare of things we’ve gone done did and said over the last week. If you’re wanting a more generous overshare, click the button - no judgement. We’re all thirsty.
#graphic-design-is-my-passion
Starting it off with a very moderate summary of what’s happening in the gRaPhic dEsIGn sCEne no thanks to one of our newest designers Simon. Juicier design knowledge in the coming weeks.
The OG Charl™ was all up in the channel this fortnight. Here are his most notable contributions.
Klim type foundry released their epicene collection https://klim.co.nz/collections/epicene/
Studio Blackburn feels like a thing https://studioblackburn.com/
A medium article on required field forms https://uxdesign.cc/how-to-indicate-required-fields-in-forms-103b8ccc5b19. Here’s a tl;dr, Keep it simple, apparently.
And how much graphic design is too much graphic design? This much graphic design.
Designers eh? EH?
#code-city
It’s all biz-ness in code-city, which is inappropriate, frankly. There’s a channel for that.
Brooke’s asking the important questions, where do eSig generators fit into the ‘full-service-agency-offering’? We’re not so sure, got thoughts? Joking/not joking/joking.
Honestly, the nerd talk is really starting to encroach on our corporate brand, there’s a lot of Mario Kart, the team is split on this, but Dog is winning, which means Dog is losing. Classic.
Lane’s trying to change the vibe up in this channel, less tech-bro, more sneaker-bro? Let’s see if it sticks, this type of shit is a good start.
#processes-and-platforms
Holla it's yer bork Dog and you probably guessed why I'm here:
Your Processes and Platforms highlight is a better copy and paste implementation via Figma. But before we get there, a bit of history on Cut/Copy/Paste and its author, who pioneered some of the earliest computational bridges between nerds and normies.
The function to which some of us owe our University degrees was originally developed by Larry Tesler (+Tim Mott), a programmer who worked at some of the world's largest tech companies including Xerox in the 1970s through to the likes of Apple, Amazon and Yahoo! in later years. Along with the notion of cutting, copying and pasting, his credits include development of the terms "user-friendly" and "WYSIWYG" (what you see is what you get), double clicking to select a group of strings, mouse movement thresholds to make text selections more 'sticky', and Tesler's Law: for any system, there is a certain level of complexity that cannot be reduced.
Though seemingly a scientist at heart, Tesler was always able to keep in mind the true users - the people - of the systems he was developing. Consideration of people drives us to consider purpose: if I am to create a new way for humans to interface with machines, how will they know how it works? Moreover, why do I need this thing, and who am I making it for?
Applying this thinking to how copy+paste now works on a keyboard would have posed many interesting questions for our predecessors. 'C' is easy to remember due to being the first word of 'Copy', and carries the added benefit of being close to the required shortcuts CMD/CTRL. 'V' is... not 'P'. Would 'P' have made more sense? Lexically, yes, but 'V' is right next to 'C'. Which would a user prefer? This question bares a fork in the road between consistency and pragmatism; we can guess at the right answer using common sense (V), but it's better that we enrich that assumption with truth from the people who will use it.
It's important to keep in mind that the very tools we're using to construct digital interfaces are themselves digital interfaces, with some gestures so useful, intuitive and ingrained that we can barely consider any alternatives. Cut/Copy/Paste is an Atomic Digital Interaction.
The Computer History Museum describes Larry Tesler as having "combined computer science training with a counterculture vision that computers should be for everyone".
Thank you Larry, for always putting people first.
https://www.figma.com/community/file/1019677205098431673
#vibe
Since last time we’ve mostly just been busy pondering the important scientific questions of our time such as the Buttered Cat Paradox and who would win between 1 trillion lions and the sun.
In good news, we’ve welcomed new intern Brig (check her out!).
In bad news, Wonkbork’s ego is growing worryingly large.
That’s it. Have a week. If it gets a bit much, check this out and see what your first love may or may not have said about you. It’s probably sickly sweet, and passive aggressive. Somehow.
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