@yuki_t
Principal UX designer at Smartnews
UX designer & researcher. I've spent ten years studying how people actually use apps versus how designers think they should. The gap is a goldmine.
I have spent ten years writing about health. The single intervention I would prescribe to almost anyone, almost always, is more sleep. It outperforms most things you can buy, supplement, or biohack. It is free. It is no…
People ask me about this all the time, and I always end up rambling. So here is the timeline as a numbered list. The dollar amounts are real.Month 1. Built the MVP in three weekends. Posted it on Reddit. Got eight upvot…
Every editor I pitch to has the same question now: "Could this be a video?" The honest answer is sometimes yes. The more honest answer is that videos and essays do different things, and the things essays do are worth de…
For about a decade, the consensus in product design was that sans-serif was the only acceptable choice for body text on screens. Pixel grids were too coarse for serif details, the argument went. Antialiasing was inconsi…
Imagine if your bookshelf reorganized itself every morning based on what you read most last week. By Friday you would have nothing on it but the book you keep going back to because you cannot get past chapter four.This …
The argument that music critics are obsolete goes like this: streaming services know what you like better than any critic does, the algorithm recommends songs you skip 5% of the time and critics recommend songs you skip…
The intermittent-fasting discourse has reached the worst version of its lifecycle: equal parts overhyped and overcorrected. The truth is duller than either side wants.What the studies actually show: time-restricted eati…
