Buckle Up

The three signs below are all aiming for the same outcome - buckle up

Each message takes a different approach to achieve that desired behavior.

1. Referencing the lifesaving benefits of wearing a seatbelt probably speaks to riders who believe road travel is in fact dangerous and they should buckle up to avoid the possibility of death.

2. Referencing the law informs law-abiding riders that it is in fact a law.

3. Referencing the punishment for breaking the law seeks to inform riders that if you don't wear your seatbelt you can get a ticket of at least $142. This probably speaks to riders who are cost conscious.

Bart Simpson learning his lesson

Bart Simpson is well known for getting into trouble at school. A common punishment is to write a lesson several hundred times on the chalkboard. Today his lesson is...

I will stop saying UX/UI

Adaptive Design feature in BHG magazine

Adaptive Design

These beauty brands and products, harness, universal design principles to accommodate low vision, motor, impairments, and other needs.

Fig-ma-dobe Stones

Adobe plans to buy Figma.

Mash them up and you get Fig-ma-dobe Stones

Brutus Buckeye - AI Generated artwork

Computers are getting smarter. There is a website that can generate artwork based on typed input.

This is artwork based on the phrase "Portrait of Brutus the Buckeye as a human"

Honestly, that could be a photo of a real fan - Buckeye fans are nuts!

Front-end vs Back-end view: Guardians of the Galaxy

Here are side-by-side photos of the movie, Guardians of the Galaxy. The character Rocket is a Racoon. The actor playing Rocket is wearing a suit. The work that goes into making the front-end is often messy and looks nothing like the final product.

Netflix billboard

Don't give up on your dreams. We started with DVDs.

Coaching Michael Jordan

This is a reminder that even Michael Jordan - the greatest basketball player of all time - still had a coach.

Who is your coach?

Lucid Chart: New Experience

When I launched LucidChart.com this was displayed:

500 page: MaxPreps

This 500 page used a creative on-brand graphic.

Unsubscribe page: Headspace

After clicking unsubscribe a company has a chance to make an impression.

Headspace has a nice on-brand unsubscribe page.

Conference Call Bingo

With the sudden rise of remote meetings, you might find yourself getting a bingo.

404 page: Owler

https://corp.owler.com/

Tooltip: Kroger

This tooltip appeared without clicking.

Gif vs. Jif

Article on Verge
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2020/2/25/21147389/jif-peanut-butter-giphy-settle-gif-pronunciation-debate

Get your Giphy Jifs here: https://giphy.com/jif

Reports available: Optical Illusion

I saw this graphic on a website. The two fields of green in the background meet at an angle and make it seem like the entire graphic is sloped downward. I don't think it was intentional.

Be aware of how your graphics may cause optical illusions.

Leap Year 2020

For some reason capturing the calendar on Leap Year seems novel to me.

Sorry, Not Sorry: Alternatives for saying sorry

Credit: https://twitter.com/danidonovan

Powerpoint: New Feature: GIFs

Word: New Feature: Dictate

Powerpoint: Subtitles feature

I clicked "Slideshow" while connected to a projector and this pop-over was displayed.
I was about to start my meeting so I didn't have time to tinker with it.
This really isn't the best time to tell me about new features. Worse off, if I happened to be interested, but not able to explore they didn't offer any information about how to get back to this.

The button label was off-center. I clicked anyway.

This pop-up was displayed.

Notice the bottom-right corner has a system status label "listening."

Here is a detailed view of the pop-over:

I clicked the "Got it" button, and this was displayed:

Again, why is the button label off-center?
The feature seems interesting, but that is not the time to tell me about it.
Perhaps a learning mode or check my calendar, it is integrated.