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saila

@saila@mastodon.social

Lives in #Toronto's #Parkdale neighbourhood, works in #UX doing #design — posting a lot about #space-related things, and sometimes about #UXDesign, #typography, #urbanism, and #InclusiveDesign • #fedi22

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saila, to cycling
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“I do not need another bike. I do not need another bicycle. I don’t need an Eames-inspired bicycle made out of bent plywood. I do not…wait, maybe it’s not that expensive…”

https://www.core77.com/posts/125317/A-Bicycle-with-a-Carbon-Fiber-Infused-Plywood-Frame

#bicycle #deign #bikeTO

saila,
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@Luke it’s so ridiculously good

saila, to space
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54 years and 17 minutes ago, humans first set foot on the #Moon

I can’t wait until we return again

https://kottke.org/apollo-11/

#Apollo11 #NASA #ThisDayInSpace #NeilArmstrong

saila, to mastodon
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Super happy #StreetPass is finally available for #Safari

The browser extension's great way to discover new people to follow on #Mastodon and in in the #fediverse

After you install it, the extension will check the sites you visit for a verified account & add them to a list for you to follow later

(It's made by @tvler and is also available for #Chrome & #Friefox)

https://streetpass.social

saila,
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@tvler Great stuff!

saila, to Toronto
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If you’re able to vote in ’s election today
— polls are now open — please go vote! 🗳️

If you need more details (where to vote, etc) here you go:

https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/elections/by-election/by-election-voter-information/myvote-by-elections/

saila,
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And I presume most of you here in know that the person to vote as a Toronto’s next is , but just in case, here’s her platform:
https://www.oliviachow.ca/plan

saila,
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One of my earliest proofs of the importance of was when ’s husband (the late ) told me how he learned to put in the marketing material — a candidate’s number on ballot)

Why?

Because in cities like , many voters aren’t familiar with Latin letters (and names spelled in English) but numbers are almost universally recognized

Seeing Olivia’s campaign listing her name with “25” was a nice reminder of how much she influenced him

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(What Jack didn’t say, but knew was true, was even those literate in English remember a few numbers better than unfamiliar names — and like all good #InclusiveDesign, what is designed to solve the #mismatch for one group benefits many, many more!)

saila,
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Also realizing: #Toronto elections are a great why to discover my community here in the #fediverse!

saila,
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And CBC just called it! #OliviaChow is #Toronto's next mayor!

#TOvotes #TOpoli

saila,
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#OliviaChow is the first #Toronto #mayor who is not white and who is also an immigrant — and she's the first woman mayor in 25 years

#TorotnoMayor #TOpoli #TOvotes

saila, to GenX
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Wrote down some neo-#ColdWar theories of what this whole pseudo-#RussianCoup potentially signalled and realized they were too dark for me to bother sharing further

Also realized there’s still a lot of lingering #GenX emotions about when “two tribes go to war” and it really is better to relax

#Russia #UkraineWar

saila, to UXDesign
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Everyone knows user stories have dirfted far from being the user's actual story

Still, @PavelASamsonov smartly suggests they still have value — if you look at them a differrent way: Frame features as the "costs" to accomplish what the user actually wants, and you'll be inspired to imagine how to reduce the expense needed to complete the goal

Such a clever & useful mindhack!

https://uxdesign.cc/as-a-user-i-dont-want-to-973990a30158

#Agile #UserStory #Scrum #UXDesign

saila, to space
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A decade ago today, covered ’s

Until tonight, I’d never seen his version of it

It’s so very good

https://youtu.be/pDyl6I6ESSw

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Like many Americans, I speak Spanish with an Italian accent, but I’m confident I will never butcher a pronunciation as badly as my British English Siri does when announcing the Spanish language kids song album our younger son has on repeat.

saila,
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@jimray This is comforting (I speak French with Italian salted into every sentence even tho my Italian probably sounds more French than North American English)

That said i don’t know if I could ever classify what Google and Siri do to French translations of Quebecois words!

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@jimray That would be ahhh-MAY-zing!

saila, to internet
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So has everyone gone to #Bluesky and/or just given-up on #Mastodon?

Because the frequency of new & relevant posts here (which once were constant) has dropped to a trickle…

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@darren That’s great!

saila,
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@podkaynelives True true

saila, to space
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On this day, 62 years ago, the trajectory #KatherineJohnson manually calculated carried #NASA’s first astronaut, #AlanShepard, to #space in the #Freedom7 spacecraft

She was also the one who determined that this was date the #rocket could launch 🚀

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/katherine-johnson-the-girl-who-loved-to-count

#ThisDayInSpace #BlackHistory

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So I’m guessing “pre-Series B” is another way of saying we’ve burnt through our first round of funding and still not sure what are path to profitability looks like

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