Bianca Aguilar
@biancamikaila
designer, educator, writer, learner
bianca.digitalBianca Aguilar
“Who are ‘Chinese audiences’?” Most big-city, 35-and-younger Chinese and college students are well aware that they can’t access major western networks, and it’s a common talking point on the internet. There’s a lot of low-level grumbling about it, but it’s an atmosphere of annoyance rather than outrage. Part of the reason for this is that there
... See moreKendra Schaefer • Notes From Behind the Firewall: The State of Web Design in China
"If you want to win an election in India or any of the developing countries, you need to win the WhatsApp war."
Payal Arora • The Next Billion Users: Digital Life Beyond the West
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
... See moreRich Mirocco • Big in Japan: Web Design in the Land of the Rising Sun
"We need to also understand that we can only celebrate automation when we have strong safety nets and strong security systems that allow us to reimagine our ways of living."
Payal Arora • The Next Billion Users: Digital Life Beyond the West
I USED TO think of athletic ability as a mountain. You're born at the base, and you'll die there too. In between, you climb higher and higher until you begin to descend. But that analogy isn't quite right, because as you get older you acquire wisdom that can help you train. I've come to realize that a better analogy is of rolling peaks. You go up,... See more
Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil
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