evanovich
@evancm
Nerdy yet sturdy, a gay elder millennial at play,
respect how design and tech intersect, programs and projects I direct each day.
I chase personal grace, laced with insight in every space,
as nature’s hidden rapture captures my artful embrace.
Golden Ratio
A ratio within the elements of a form, such as height to width, approximating 0.618.
The golden ratio is the ratio between two segments such that the smaller (bc) segment is to the larger segment (ab) as the larger segment (ab) is to the sum of the two segments (ac), or bclab = ab/ac = 0.618.2.
The golden ratio is found throughout nature
Life Cycle
All products progress sequentially through four stages of existence: introduction, growth, maturity, and decline.
All products progress through stages of existence that roughly correspond to birth, life, and death. For example, a new type of electronic device is envisioned and developed; its popularity grows; after a while its sales platea
Factor of Safety
The use of more elements than is thought to be necessary to offset the effects of unknown variables and prevent system failure.'
Design requires dealing with unknowns. No matter how knowledgeable the designer and how thoroughly researched the design specification, basic assumptions about unknowns of one kind or another are inevitable
... See moreHarry Dry’s Rules for Copywriting
formatting and terminology corrected by me for consistency and because I could not help myself. Originally captured from this podcast episode.
1. A great sentence is a good sentence made shorter.
2. Writing great copy begins with having something to say in the first place.
3. Copy is like food: how it looks matters.
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... See moreThe world around you is built by your thoughts. If you want the world around you to change, change the way you think about the world around you.
Two rules to help you be consistent with exercise this year:
1. Show up.
2. You can quit tomorrow.
Repeat.
-Shane Parrish
Ways of working and
Screens are attention, and thus metabolic energy and brain function vampires!
Do NOT raise your kid with tech. Do NOT look at your phone all day. Do raise your child in an attentive, prosocial environment. Do make them play outside. Do engage with people directly and actively as much as possible. Do. One. Thing. At. A. Time.
Fascinating
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