Within me was my ancestry: divided histories, self-doubt, and violence. Ugly. Fat. Stupid. Dull. I’d consumed these words in the fullness of their meaning; no one taught me to understand subtle acts of love as a cancellation of spoken cruelties. Within my secret disease, my body dysmorphia, was the fear that what was vocalized about my appeara…
Life is short. No one wants to fill out a form. Be conversational. Be funny. Gradually engage. Do the unexpected. It is the role of the designer to express their company’s brand to elicit an emotional reaction. If done correctly, it will increase completion rates. Just make sure you don’t violate the rules listed above.
The next time you see a function named <-: and you think to yourself, “OMG, how unreadable, what am I going to do now!?”, ask yourself if there are other tools — perhaps more robust than those familiar — to comprehend the code. What is its type? What are its algebraic properties? Are there parametric properties to exploit?