Link dump, 2

Again, a series of items that I’ve enjoyed but have been too lazy to post.

Human nature

http://qz.com/647197/almost-everyone-who-is-unhappy-with-life-is-unhappy-for-the-same-reasons/ Almost everyone who is unhappy with life is unhappy for the same reasons

Filmmaking

Tony Zhou explores how a film editor does what she does: “How do you know when to cut?”

Architecture

http://www.dezeen.com/2016/05/27/evidence-room-holocaust-denial-auschwitz-killing-facility-robert-jan-van-pelt-venice-architecture-biennale/ The Evidence Room presents “the worst crime ever committed by an architect”. A team of architects and academics has created a room of architectural evidence from Auschwitz that shows how the Nazi concentration camp was purposefully designed as a killing facility. Wow.

http://www.archdaily.com/789475/ar-issues-on-notopia-the-scourge-destroying-our-cities-worldwide Christine Murray outlines the defining characteristics of a “Notopia” – where cities suffer from a “pandemic of generic buildings have no connection to each other”

Education

https://aeon.co/essays/schooling-comes-naturally-to-mexico-s-indigenous-people There’s a way to teach children without colonising their minds: the lifelong way of the indigenous people of Mexico

Web design

https://blog.prototypr.io/rediscovering-apples-human-interface-guidelines-1987-59731376b39e#.jlcny54fw Rediscovering Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines from 1987. The early Apple engineers clearly knew what they were dealing with.

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/your-ui-is-your-products-humble-compensation-for-not-being-telepathic-b467d022d640#.f6mus22qn Your UI is your product’s humble compensation for not being telepathic, so says Morten Just

Betterment / Start-ups
https://www.theinformation.com/the-non-monetizable-product-blind-spot The Non-Monetizable Product Blind Spot (I haven’t signed up so only read the first bit – but that diagram feels spot on)

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See also: Link dump no. 1

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