No toolbars on the Mac
Using keyboard shortcuts is much quicker than pointing and clicking. Therefore I eliminated toolbars wherever possible.
I design my environment in a way that encourages healthy habits.
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Nice tramway map
This is the nicest map of the Nice tram network ever designed:
The map serves its goal of helping people get around Nice by tram. There is no distracting garbage.
Unlike the current official map, all tram stations are shown on mine:
The most complicated interchange, Grand Arénas, has become legible:
I encourage the city of Nice to adopt my map as the official one.
Voice-controlled elevators
Elevators should support voice control. This way people will be able to select their floor without touching anything.
Bread rolls
The bread roll is one of the greatest human inventions: it makes any simple ingredient that is boring by itself a proper food.
Audioguides
Audioguides in museums are a sign that the story is not being told well enough visually.
Messengers
All messengers are bad in some way or another.
iMessage lacks platform universality. Telegram doesn’t believe in decency—any message can be deleted forever, for all sides. Signal is badly designed. WhatsApp doesn’t respect privacy.
Email, however, is universal, honest, unintrusive, simple, and as private as one wants it to be.
Light switches
Light switches should always be inside the room that the lights are being switched in. Letting outsiders interfere in internal affairs is never a good idea.
Hand dryers and paper towels
Having a hand dryer and no paper towels in a restroom is a slap in the visitor’s face. There are hundreds of use cases for paper towels, the most basic being blowing your nose.
Oh, and in some cases a hand dryer physically can’t dry one’s hands:
Self-presenting
Overhead lights bring attention to themselves by turning on while the flight attendant mentions them. Great design!
Europe diagram, Brexit edition
As the UK is about to leave the EU, I have updated my European diagram to reflect the new situation. I also added the Council of Europe for good measure.
Oh, and there’s a version in French as well:
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