Product Designer // views expressed are mine alone, and will change as I learn... or calm down.
Sydney, Australia
Joined June 2007
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Marc Nothrop retweeted
What gives me real climate anxiety:
Not that we're doomed to fail, but that the options for success are far more accessible, just and beneficial than we realise
And that we'll let it slip past anyway because it's easy for incumbents to spread lies and protecting profits.
Marc Nothrop retweeted
🚨 IT’S TIME FOR ROUND THREE 🗳️
32 terrible tech industry figures have now been narrowed down the top 8 in a competition for the honor of being 2022’s Worst Person in Tech.
Make your voice heard, and get your chosen ghoul to the finish line!
ALT Worst Person in Tech: A Tech Won’t Save Us Competition. 32 names now narrowed down to top 8: Tobias Lutke, Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Bankman-Fried, Jeff Bezos, Brian Chesky, Palmer Luckey, Elon Musk.
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📣 The 2022 Design Tools Survey results are live!
🧠 We’ve spent the last month crunching the numbers from 4,260 responses, and we’re excited to share the findings!
🧵 Here are some interesting highlights (link to full results at the end)...
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Apparently, a chick writing about technology policy + law should have come with a trigger warning for blokes. Some seem rather upset by anger about the ABC sharing data with Facebook+Google. So rather than engage with messages individually, here are my responses to all.
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📣 UNHCR do amazing work.
They're on the ground today & will be the last to leave. They need a lot more than $30k.
Let's see if we can get this started.
Annie & I will match the first $1 MILLION raised for UNHCR Afghanistan via @BenQuilty 's campaign below.
Double your $!
Please donate today. Afghan people need us now crisis-in-afghanistan.raisel…
Marc Nothrop retweeted
Join us on Feb. 23 for a free webinar with Dr. Keith Dreyer and Dr. Catherine Jones for "Medical Imaging AI: What the data tells us." Reserve your spot at bit.ly/37hAXlw. Sponsored Content
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Good Sunday reading on the values of simplicity in programming, among other topics.
dave.cheney.net/2020/02/23/t…
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Marc Nothrop retweeted
People hate things that contradict their deeply-held beliefs. But since ideas that contradict deeply-held beliefs are the most interesting (see the history of physics for example), anyone on the hunt for interesting ideas will tend to offend a lot of people.
Marc Nothrop retweeted
I've had many a battle with design teams over underline/float-label only form fields. "But Google does it!" is the most common response.
So it's great to see Google publish some of their research that led them towards a more traditional form field design medium.com/google-design/the…
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Incredible pictures as Australia’s gathering for the #climatestrike
This is the huge crowd building up in Sydney.
Australia is setting the standard!
Its bedtime in New York...so please share as many pictures as you can as the strikes move across Asia to Europe and Africa!
Marc Nothrop retweeted
The largest street protest in Hobart since the FRANKLIN River - 22,000 people demanding Climate Action Now #politas #ClimateStrike
Marc Nothrop retweeted
Take the pain out of interacting with #Jira with Agile Docs. The #Jira Integration which lets you interact with your user stories and tasks like a google doc. Click here to see Agile Docs in action => agiledocs.io
#Atlassian #Agile
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The Tesla big battery installation in South Australia has delivered a profit of $A23 million in its first full year of operation, as well as playing a key role in lowering market costs and keeping the lights on
reneweconomy.com.au/tesla-bi…
HT @kcarruthers
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Actual experts are reluctant to call themselves experts because they’re too aware of all the things they don’t know.
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In Yves Veulliet's keynote, he asks "Do we really need a business case to treat people fairly, to employ people with disabilities?" Yves says we shouldn’t, but organisations still like to approach employment of people with disabilities in this way. #ANDConf19
