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Johan Bové

Johan Bové

Johan Bové

DOC — The vanishing designer

Visionary designers have lost their conceptual integrity to an industrial complex optimized for consensus, predictability, and short-term business gain. The rise of data-driven culture cultivated a generation of designers who only take risk-free and success-guaranteed steps towards the inevitable local maxima of design monotony.

Johan Bové

Why does modern Web UI design detest having to design pagination elements so much?

Johan Bové

Why is versioning an API endpoint such a hard software infrastructure design challenge?

Johan Bové

Johan Bové

Johan Bové

I keep reverting the "new Outlook for Mac" design to the old, more familiar one because I am missing some of the missing features and I'm not a fan of this "Playmobil" design "refresh" pushed on to us. Not a fan of Material Design also, I absolutely dislike the Gmail UI for the same reasons. Perhaps I am getting old :-D

Johan Bové

Johan Bové

Johan Bové

Watching Eurosongfestival for the shear craziness this circus is and also for the spectucular stages. https://wiwibloggs.com/2021/02/11/eurovision-2021-stage-design-revamped-green-room-to-replace-standi...

Johan Bové

Johan Bové

Microsoft Design

Inclusive Design principles by Microsoft

Johan Bové

Johan Bové

I hope this only happens on websites and not IRL @paravelinc

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My reasons to support the Gemini Internet Protocol

3 min read

Why do I believe Gemini is great for personal Internet presences? First of all, it's a real grass-roots initiative which I am very excited about.

If you're reading this, chances are high you are already using Gemini. But for history reasons and to share my opinions of Gemini I would like to offer you here some views of mine.

Collecting some of the strong-points of Gemini from my perspective of having some experience with Gopher and running personal websites.

Fast and lightweight

  • It's very easy on the system resources. So the protocol works really well on slower hardware without any problems. Hosting on a Raspberry Pi3 is easy-peasy.
  • Since there are no fancy design in Gemini capsules, it is really optimized for low bandwidth.
  • It should work really fine on a feature-phone, like for KaiOS. I don't believe there is a client yet for KaiOs at this time.
  • It's fairly easy to build clients and servers for the protocol.

Simple yet complete

  • The specifications provide enough functionality to do basically what you would expect to be able to do online.
  • Much lower learning curve compared to Gopher and HTML. You can start publishing Gemini pages within minutes.
  • Even-though the syntax is limited, it still gives enough playroom for creative expression.
  • Use of TLS certificates promises security and privacy.
  • It is more international than US-centric Gopher.
  • The procol supports the UTF-8 character set so any language can be used to publish sites in.
  • This should help make the protocol more popular in non-ascii wielding regions in the World.

Easy to publish

  • Content will be probably first of all stored in static text files which are future-proof and easy to maintain.
  • Many servers already available that require minimal technical skills.
  • Yes, you still need a server, but there are many collectives which you can join to facilitate this.

Focus

  • No popups, animations, videos, sound effects.
  • Focus on actual content instead of fluff and effects.
  • No advertisemens and commercial tracking.
  • No Facebook, Google or Twitter.

Accessible

  • Power of formatting goes into the clients or readers. Like in the good old days of the early Web, people are expected to style the content to their own liking.
  • It's pure text, has simple navigation rules, so should be great for people with disabilities.
  • No JavaScript so you really see what you get.

And on top of this, the young Gemini community is driven to make this a success!

I'm sold.

ps. I published this first in plain text on my Gemini capsule and now that I copy paste this into a HTML document I can really tell just how easy it is to publish on Gemini.

Johan Bové

Solarpunk: A grand dress rehearsal in remaking our present and future history.

This talk was delivered at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam on the 18th of May 2018. I spoke along side Jaya Klara Brekke as part of the public start of the Terraforming Earth programme, a series of lectures and design labs about 21st-century society. solarpunk, syndicated

Johan Bové

Cognitect, please stop adding alpha to your namespaces @ tonsky.me

Love the "dark mode" design of this site. Excellent work by Nikita.

Johan Bové

DWeb Meetup: 2020—The State of the Decentralized Web

How can decentralized protocols scale? What are the roadblock issues? 2 groups share new reports with key ways your project can move forward

Location: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dweb-meetup-2020the-state-of-the-decentralized-web-tickets-109884774318

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Time Zone: Europe/Berlin (GMT +01:00)

About this Event

It's 2020 and the Decentralized Web has working code. Protocols used by dozens of projects. Projects employing 100+ developers. But if you zoom out, where is the DWeb Ecosystem as a whole? What will it take to scale to widespread audiences?

DWeb Meetup June brings you two new reports on decentralization and a free user experience design clinic, meant to bring the report's recommendations to life.

Plus, we're experimenting with a new meetup platform: Gather.town, using WebRTC to create a virtual gathering space complete with a beach, bar, auditorium and hang out spaces.

Check out these new reports:

Decentralization, off the shelf.

There is a significant gap between the protocols that define the decentralization space and the applications that users want to adopt. Through a series of interviews and focus groups with technology designers and builders, the authors have identified 7 areas where projects can improve their own practice; where targeted research is necessary; and where funders can enable collaborative innovations.

First read their research report: Decentralization Off the Shelf—7 Maxims

At the Dweb Meetup, Decentralization Off the Shelf (hosted by Simply Secure) will be inviting decentralized applications to a free user experience clinic. They are inviting everyone - from early-stage prototypes to already-launched projects - to submit a request for free help during the meetup. We will select up to 5 participants to highlight during the event, helping their project better succeed as well as providing a learning opportunity for everyone else!

Need user experience help?

If you’d like your project to be highlighted in the event, please fill out this brief survey and we will contact you with further details!

Hear from one of the report's authors, Karissa McKelvey, who researches technical architecture design and its impact on usability, safety, and resilience. Previously, she led user and developer experience for dat and hypercore, a decentralized data sharing tool and peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol.

Design Clinic by Eileen Wagner, who advises teams and organizations on UX design and research at Simply Secure. Her focus is on information architecture, content strategy, and interaction design--or anything that helps people make sense of complex technologies.

Researchers at Fluence surveyed 650 Decentralized Web developers for insights into ongoing progress, major hurdles and bumps along the road. Here's what they found:

Read "Decentralized Web Developer Report 2020"

Or see the highlights

At the DWeb Meetup, hear from one of the report's authors, Anna Lekanova, who leads community building at Fluence, a peer-to-peer computing protocol & a software licensing system.

SCHEDULE: (all times are Pacific Time)

DWEB NODE TIMES: SF: 10:00 AM / Austin: Noon / Boston: 1 PM / Sao Paulo: 2 PM / London: 6 PM / Prague-Berlin: 7 PM / Perm: 10 PM / Shanghai: 1 AM next day / Sydney: 3AM next day / Auckland 5 AM next day

9:30 AM PT: Come early and explore our virtual world at Gather.town

10:10 AM PT: Welcome in the main conference room (Zoom interface)

10:15-10:30 AM: Overview of Decentralized Web Developers report by Anna Lekanova + Q & A

10:30-10:45 AM: Overview of Decentralization Off the Shelf by Karissa McKelvey + Q & A

10:45-11:15 AM: User Experience Clinic with Eileen Wagner

(Volunteer projects will get hands-on advice on UX design and how to improve)

11:15-11:20 AM: Need help? Georgia Bullen shares how Simply Secure works to support projects in the DWeb.

11:20-Noon: Come back to our Meet up space in Gather.town: go together to the beach and hear the waves; share a drink at the virtual bar; gather in small groups around the fire. Have fun and socialize!

Questions?

Write to wendy@archive.org with questions, to volunteer, or more.

Johan Bové