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Damir is an expert UX Architect & UI Designer with over 15 years of multi-industry experience — designing sites and apps for the likes of Booking.com, Harvard University, Australian state governments, finance, XR and web3 startups worldwide. He specialises in taking startups from 0 to 1 — that is from strategic design consultation and UX architecture, to the nitty-gritty of UI design, design system creation, prototyping, quality analysis, user testing, hiring and mentorship. His talent for turning complex problems into elegant solutions is a winning formula that has left a legacy of successful projects with clients from Austria, Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Spain and the USA.

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Marx knew better.


Shameless plug. I wrote a piece about The State of Open Data Portals https://uxdesign.cc/designing-open-data-portals-for-governme... where I predict that it'll take a Google to really provide a single searchable dataset portal for the whole world.

Doesn't take a genius to predict, but there ya go! Governments are assembling datasets in a very fragmented way. It'll take a private company to provide one single website to explore and find all datasets from around the world, making it easier to look at holistic patterns that are happening around the world, or compare patterns between countries.

Though, I would expect a much better UX from Google nowadays. This site has more in common with Google Scholar than Google Search.

And ultimately I'd like to see them build something where people don't need to download datasets in order to make use of the data.

I compare the state of open data to the state of mapping software before Google Maps. You needed to download map files and open them on special software that you open on your computer to make sense of the data. And then Google Maps came along and flipped that whole model. Open data needs the same leap forward in order for more people to make greater use of open data.


UX was never about the user to begin with.

It was about giving companies competitive advantage. That is essentially the ROI of UX, and it was since the term was first coined.


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Multidisciplinary designer bringing digital products to life — for fledgling startups and Fortune 500 giants all around the world.

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> Tripping is an advertisement to meditate, not the other way around.

This really distills the message down to its essence. Though worth pointing out that this advertisement doesn't have to be seen as spam. Rather it can be just the right channel at the right moment for some people.


I'm in the middle of building https://minihero.org/ and hoping to ship next week. I hope that in the future volunteering will be as easy as hailing an Uber.


"unless the emotional pain is a desired outcome"

Seriously, who are some of you people?


Are things getting worse every day?


Every month, but we're getting close to every other week. That's not entirely because of September 11th, but because politics thinks that they can serve Government and Corporate requirements better when they rip our data, privacy and rights.


A training video? Showing them how to behave like barbaric cunts?


Do you have any context for the video whatsoever?

No?

OK, then maybe don't jump to conclusions. One possibility is that it's a training video for a "watch this then report what happened" sort of thing, which are very common and may not even be affiliated with an actual police department.

Consider the presence of a camera crew (the filmer is way too close to an armed officer to be a bystander). Also notice how there is no blood and no physicality related to a body being hit by bullets.

For all we know this could be a training video to help cops avoid this sort of thing. What sort of twisted world do you live in where you would imagine that any police department in America could explicitly set out to train its police to cold-bloodedly murder people?

Everything related to this video screams of it not depicting an actual event.

Edit: videos of the police committing murder or negligent homicide do exist but there is generally far more context with those videos and they are tied to well known cases.

Edit2: I've watched the video a few more times now and I've noticed some important details which aren't very obvious due to the low resolution of the video. First, the civilian has another gun which he retrieves from behind his back, you can see it in his hands in the last few frames of the film. Second, the "police" are not in uniform nor do they have any police insignia present yet they are wearing bulletproof vests. If they were plain clothes cops they would not have their vests on above their clothes. If they were police on duty they would have badges, insignia, etc.

My guess is that this is a training video or video of training, maybe for police, possibly for private security.


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