Bianca Aguilar
@biancamikaila
designer, educator, writer, learner
bianca.digitalBianca Aguilar
“If you have to explain why a typeface is beautiful, then it isn’t.”
Brian Ng • Revolutionary type: Meet the designer decolonizing Chinese fonts
"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…
Significant Misconceptions #1 Africans were illiterate before colonization #2 Africa lacked civilization before European contact
Henri Lotin • Big Picture: The State of Web Design in Africa
Religious practices or norms could be a barrier or opportunity if implemented correctly, for digital products. It is unwise to simply replicate and expand services or products to countries with strong religious beliefs without considering the values.
Project Lima • Inclusive design in Southeast Asia
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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