Markiian Bobyliak

Bret Victor: email (9/3/04)Interface matters to me more than anything else, and it always has. I just never realized that. I've spent a lot of time over the years desperately trying to think of a "thing" to change the world. I now know why the search was fruitless -- things don't change the world. People change the world by using things. The focus ... See more

The truth is, simply incorporating game mechanics and game elements does not make a game fun. Effective gamification is a combination of game design, game dynamics, behavioral economics, motivational psychology, UX/UI (User Experience and User Interface), neurobiology, technology platforms, as well as ROI-driving business implementations.

“There are more apps than ever before..the cost of installation or awareness that has saturated and escalated so much that you can make something superb and very few people know about it.”

Steve Jobs energy transference was so strong it was labelled a Reality Distortion Field. He could bend other people's perception of reality with one interaction. I don't think this is some mystical woo-woo energy. It's a combination of intensity, frame, belief, body language, optimism and vocal tonality.

Universe Guiding Design Principles: 1) playful interfaces that induce flow state. 2) magical canvas: universe is an open-ended tool but we help you make it beautiful. 3) progressive disclosure: something exceedingly powerful to use but very easy. these things are at tension with each other which is very hard. one answer is progressive disclosure w

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Writing is an efficiency game. Whoever says the most stuff in the fewest words wins.

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Make your writing concise. Concise does not mean short. It means a high density of value to words.

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Everyone should write. Why? Because everyone is full of ideas they’re not aware of. This means they’re also unaware of the value of their ideas, and this value can o... See more

Going back to Thich Nhat Hanh, I believe that writing is part of every design. If you can clearly define what you’re making and articulate its value, the steps to bring it out into the world will go much faster. It’s easy to put pixels together when you’ve already made decisions. And since we work across systems and borders, there’s no better way t... See more