also: don't distract with unnecessary and unrelated graphics

It's a bit ironic the laws of UX is presented this way with gaudy graphics that are cumbersome to scroll through. They take up a lot of screen real estate and would disrupt what the typical user is used to.

I would recommend reading another headline on this forum in regards to idiomatic design: [[https://essays.johnloeber.com/p/4-bring-back-idiomatic-desig...][#4: Bring Back Idiomatic Design - by John Loeber]]

this is what Magic Leap should have been

You should ask your friend what they do with all of the half cents that are floating around in the banking system.

"It's not a virus, it's a worm!"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=bcAACOrgVKE

They should just require people to answer a dynamic set of random history questions.

The car wash is 50 parsecs away, should I walk, drive, or jump?

I've heard that MS took a different path (than previously) for the Windows 8 Metro design and wonder if a big source of the initial UI issues was a result of shoehorning the new design into the existing Windows UI.

Some friends of mine in college were sitting in a cave, tripping, when a group of actual little people (not elves) walked past them.

The universe finds a way...

I think it's intended to discourage people from switching to 365 Classic, which has the Office suite but does not include Copilot.

I guess no one remembers the attempted Netflix rebrand.

I don't. What (and when) was it?

In 2011 Netflix announced it would split its DVD-by-mail and streaming businesses. The DVD business would be called "Qwikster", which was mocked. Eventually they reversed the decision.

Besides the goofy name, people thought the move was premature. Netflix wanted to go all-in on streaming. The catalogue was a lot more limited back then, though, and the DVDs helped bridge the gap since a lot of movies and TV shows that were unavailable for streaming were available by DVD instead.