Mo Shafieeha

Design is about empathy, accessibility, communication of ideas, and improving lives, regardless of context. Design trends come and go, so don't get caught up in the hype and remember that the way a product or service is used today may be entirely different in five or ten years.

The cloud developer environment is expensive and heavy and cannot be used offline. It is severely affected by latency. The obvious answer is to move web development to the web, as Google Docs and Figma did for knowledge workers. As a result of WebAssembly's increasing maturity and new browser capabilities, the browser-as-operating-system continues... See more

The most attractive startups are those that have counterintuitive behavior plus traction. These ideas often develop at the seam between "natives" and "immigrants". Instagram-natives are likely to see a new retail space or ecomm brand differently than those who aren't exposed to the same thousands of pictures.

An overly detailed map won't be useful. Maps omit details that the artist—or user, if the map is interactive—deems irrelevant. In some cases, details are exaggerated to reflect importance. The map doesn't just need to be useful, but it needs to be usable. TED's Christina Wurman has created a concept model of the Tokyo subway based on a... See more

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The rise of financial incentives In order to encourage participation in DeFi (decentralized finance), new DAOs offered financial incentives. Those who do not have financial incentives would not invest time, money, and energy in networks, vote on proposals to improve them, or care about their futures. Here are some examples that can help builders... See more