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veen  ·  3521 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: June 3, 2015

Had a full day at the ministry of Infrastructure today discussing the future of autonomous vehicles. Turns out they developed almost the same approach to the topic as I do in my own thesis! (mine's a bit more refined though, to be honest)

LinkedIn is the bomb. I've gotten two invites for coffee with interesting people, one because of the Esri win and one because of today's discussion.

elizabeth, have you seen the new Cortex podcast? It's basically CGPGrey fan service. Anyway, in it they discuss home screen layouts. I wonder who else here carefully consideres their home screen layout. What do you see when you open your phone? What can you tell about a person looking at it? Here's mine, judge away:





wasoxygen  ·  3507 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    What do you see when you open your phone?

This is an interesting question, and maybe worth a post of its own.

Here's my home screen

and the second page

Some time ago I enabled the "grayscale" setting as a reminder to look at my phone less, so I would not look like that guy so often. It worked better than expected, and now if I switch back the colors look unpleasantly garish.

veen  ·  3504 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I've updated my home screen with Nova Launcher, so I can have this clean, minimalist look:

elizabeth  ·  3514 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What a heavy misbalance towards orange applications! and 2 screens!? Blasphemy ;)

veen  ·  3514 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hey - that's not my choice, that's the Google Now screen. If only I could turn it off...

Creativity  ·  3520 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I had a period like that, were I tried to optimize my home screen. I used to go to http://mycolorscreen.com/ ; there are some awesome home screen there that you can reproduce by tweaking a bit your phone.

I used to have this one http://mycolorscreen.com/2013/08/09/ios-5-0-key-lime-pie-2/ -- kind of minimalist and simple, with icons from this one http://mycolorscreen.com/2013/08/26/ios-a8/

I really like this one as well : http://mycolorscreen.com/2011/12/09/multihome/

Since I rebooted my phone I didn't change the ui/ux. I might do that soon though.

galen  ·  3520 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I worked pretty hard on my home screen. Now I love it.

E: The left and right groups in the bottom row are music/podcasts and communication (text/email/phone), respectively.

veen  ·  3520 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Interesting. Why do you have the Play store in your dock? I hardly open it.

galen  ·  3520 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Mostly because I have nothing else to go there, actually. And I'm used to it now. But it's useful for the occasional new app or update.

elizabeth  ·  3520 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Never heard of that podcast, I'll get on it tho :)