Dave Feldman

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"Look over your chat history and ask yourself, 'Am I fine with a bunch of people I don't know, who have my phone number and know where I live, reading all of this? Am I comfortable making that choice on behalf of everyone I communicate with?'" dfeldman.medium.com/its-time-to-st…

Just published: "It's Time to Stop Texting" dfeldman.medium.com/its-time-to-st…

Experimenting with Twitter alternatives. I’m on Post.news at post.news/dfeldman, and Mastodon at @dfeldman@mastodon.social. Interested to see how these things evolve and how/whether they can capture what I missed about Twitter even before the current insanity.

OMG Apple. Was excited about iCloud Shared Photo Library finally getting us out of Lightroom but now...so the *photos* are shared but not the *albums*. I take our photos & sort them into albums, and then my wife gets them all in a big pile and has to make her *own* albums. Why?

Sad news, everyone: we'll be shutting Miter down. It's been a fantastic experience and we learned a lot, but ultimately disproved our core hypothesis about meeting software. medium.com/miter-blog/mit…

OK. Unless I'm missing something, Apple's new iCloud Shared Photo Library has the same albums between your personal and shared libraries, but different photos in each(!?). You've "My Album" in both libraries, but with completely different photos in each. Can someone explain this?

C'mon Apple. You make laptops with 10h battery life and there's no way to tell them to sync photos unless they're plugged in? It's not much of a sync if it only works when all devices are plugged in and on WiFi. "Sync" means I don't *have* to plan ahead to ensure I have my stuff.

"..instead of locking down an in-depth agenda for every meeting.. just make sure you know why you’re meeting in the 1st place. As long as you have a clear, outcome-oriented goal ... the rest will follow" @ashleywhillans @dfeldman @dwisniew hbr.org/2022/10/is-age… @HarvardBiz

Just published on @HarvardBiz alongside @dwisniew and @ashleywhillans. hbr.org/2022/10/is-age…

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This switch might be the best cautionary example I've seen to illustrate why designers need to be careful about confusing *action* with *state*. Does the current position represent hidden? Or does flipping the switch hide the thing?

I'm always confused by how many security-focused folks are opposed to subscription-based software pricing. Security isn't something a developer does once and forgets about; it's an ongoing task. So wouldn't it make sense to pay for it as an ongoing service?

Came across a trending article suggesting that product designers might want to learn about Human-Computer Interaction. Confused—to me this sounds like suggesting to doctors that they learn about Medicine. Have the disciplines diverged that much? What am I missing here?

@mulegirl @brightidea21 @pixeljoel (To clarify: I don’t love “ideation.” I feel a little icky when I use it. But…) What’s an example? Say, as part of a project to meet an unmet use case, we get people in a room to explore (but not yet decide on or flesh out) possible ways to do so. What would you call that?

@brightidea21 @pixeljoel @mulegirl I do feel like I need some way to refer to a situation in which our goal is to come up with ideas. “Brainstorm” is too prescriptive about method and often misunderstood. ‘Course I don’t mind the plain English approach, “Let’s come up with a bunch of ideas,” but it’s wordy.

@pixeljoel @mulegirl Let's think about some new ways to refer to ideation.

Lessons Learned As a Designer-Founder. Awesome piece by @dfeldman smashingmagazine.com/2022/09/lesson…

Just posted via @smashingmag: "Lessons Learned as a Designer-Founder" smashingmagazine.com/2022/09/lesson…

@ditheringfm Re @figma—Photoshop's more full-featured but esp. post-iOS7, designers didn't need most of that. Lock-in-wise, file formats only did so much pre-cloud b/c design artifacts are a means to an end. Cloud collab *creates* lock-in. My take here: dfeldman.medium.com/how-did-figma-…