Bianca Aguilar
@biancamikaila
designer, educator, writer, learner
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Chinese Are Not Yet Used to Wide, Breezy Grids
In terms of real UX preference differences, I can say that the Bootstrap-3 big-grid-spacing revolution has not hit here yet, and many Chinese feel like a 30 px margin is too loose, that it leaves the webpage feeling too disconnected. The local eye seems a little more tuned into smaller grid spacing
... See moreKendra Schaefer • Notes From Behind the Firewall: The State of Web Design in China
"If you look at say, Twitter, where 50% of young people are very active in Saudi Arabia, the most popular Twitter accounts are often imams themselves, because there's a lot of competition amongst these religious leaders to get the young people's attention."
Payal Arora • The Next Billion Users: Digital Life Beyond the West
“There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight of it is too heavy. And sometimes the mountain top is difficult to reach with all our resources, factual and confessional, so we are just there, collectively grasping, feeling the limitations of knowledge, longing together,... See more
bell hooks • Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Fr…
Communication
The culture of a country sews threads throughout everything its members see and say. Here, details are a welcome aspect of communication and therefore web design too, as a website conveys information and sells the company and its products in place of a live salesperson. Details are needed because risk is absolutely not tolerated. More
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