👋 Oi, mga repapips, Brian Dys here! I love music, photography, and creative stuff like UX design and art. This is a place where I collect my thoughts and works. Apart all these, I’m Jaycelle’s better half and Bryce’s dad. 🥰
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I’m not sure if it’s only a phenomenon in my brain that the first album of a new artist that I listen to, I immediately like almost all songs in it. Then when I encounter or seek the other albums, it didn’t have the same effect. It feels like a certain standard or image have been imprinted in me about that artist. All other songs were being compared to that first impeccable album that I’ve loved.
Case in point: Oasis’ (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? was the first album (albeit their second album) of a musical artist that I bought with my saved allowance. All songs in that album was monumental in contributing to my identity and confidence as a teenager. Liam Gallagher was my role model both in poetry and photography, fashion sense and the shag hairstyle. The next album that I discovered of them was Definitely Maybe, which was their debut studio album. On the contrary, it was ok, I liked Supersonic and Married With Children.
Not all artists that I’ve encountered for the first time was through a full album. Bon Jovi, for example, was an influence from my cousin and uncle almost ten years my senior. They introduced me to this guilty pleasure rock band through their Cross Road greatest hits album. Then after a little while, These Days album was released. From a different end of the spectrum from Oasis, that album influenced me in romantic and sappy ways. After a decade or so and three studio albums in between, another album came my way, Lost Highway.
I’ll be growing this list as I comb through my personal collection. Enjoy!
Be Here Now
Oasis
Be My Thrill
The Weepies
Blackbird
Siri’s Svale Band
Careless Love
Madeleine Peyroux
Come Away With Me
Norah Jones
Corinne Bailey Rae
Corinne Bailey Rae
Deja Nu
Dion
Details
Frou Frou
Friends
Mocca
Life
The Cardigans
Lost Highway
Bon Jovi
Love Is Here
Starsailor
Eye To The Telescope
KT Tunstall
Glow
The Innocence Mission
God Bless The Child
Mishka Adams
Happenstance
Rachael Yamagata
In Between Dreams
Jack Johnson
Jagged Little Pill
Alanis Morissette
Keep It Together
Guster
Koop Islands
Koop
Let It Die
Feist
Love in the Land of Rubber Shoes & Dirty Ice Cream
Orange & Lemons
Melody A.M.
Röyksopp
Music From The Buffet Table
Barbie’s Cradle
Mondays Are Like Tuesdays and Tuesdays Are Like Wednesdays
Acid House Kings
Moon Safari
Air
Philosophy of the World
The Shaggs
Playing in the Fields
Barbie’s Cradle
Riot On An Empty Street
Kings of Convenience
Silence Is Easy
Starsailor
So Much for the City
The Thrills
Start From Here
Joanna Wang
Static And Silence
Tanto Tempo
Bebel Gilberto
The Look of Love
Diana Krall
These Days
Bon Jovi
Tourist
Athlete
(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?
Oasis
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I’ve received a message in ADPList from a graphic designer who’s interested in UX design, asking curious questions about the field. It’s a good start for anyone exploring to ask many questions!
Hi I’m a graphic designer who is exploring UX/UI design field. Here are my questions:
Do UX/UI designers have to learn HTML/CSS to create an app/website?
Short answer
No, because you can manage your expertise in the world of UX itself and find partners that will focus on frontend development (HTML/CSS/JS) to create an app/website.
Long answer
Creation, design-wise: No, because at this point you’re at the conceptual / mock-up fidelity phase (i.e., design)
Creation, design-wise: Yes, because knowledge in how to implement your designs will make you a better designer; you will know the limitations and possibilities of the actual website you’re designing; also when prototyping, you can use HTML/CSS/JS
Creation, technical implementation-wise: No, because there are tools that export directly from design to code; there are also drag and drop website builders like Google Sites (optimization for a performant website, is another topic, though).
Creation, technical implementation-wise: Yes, because frontend development is close to UX design in terms of process (design then implementation)
A different answer
It depends — you can simply wait to discover where the road of exploring UX design will take you. Me, for example, I started with my interest in HTML & CSS that’s why I got into web design, and eventually UX design.
Does a UX designer design the app/website alone or is it by a team?
Alone: as mentioned above, you could be a UX designer and a frontend developer rolled into one.
Team: also, there are projects that can be launched more efficiently and effectively when done by a team (two heads are better than one).
Is it necessary to make case studies for portfolio or can it just be designs of screens?
Context is always the key to any portfolio item that you will showcase: what are you trying to say to your audience? Which knowledge and skills are you highlighting in that portfolio item? That can definitely be contained in a case study, regardless of its depth and detail. Context tells a little bit more about you and the project you worked on, to your audience.
It also doesn’t have to be a case study. However you will manage to put context into your work. How will you get the message across? If screens can accomplish these things, then it’s all good.
What are some useful tips to get started on UX design?
It’s ok to take one step at a time to understand the fundamentals of UX. This book, The Elements of User Experience by Jesse James Garrett greatly helped me. Might be a good read for you too, as a start.
Good luck on your UX design journey. Remember to have fun! 😎
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Hewson also proposed that power is a critical component of self-agency. Power, in this case, means that a person has the resources, capabilities, and knowledge to act on their goals.
What is striking is not the machine’s humanness, but the lengths we are forced to go to become compatible with the machine.
If you talk to mental health experts on college campuses, they’ll tell you that along with the rise of ubiquitous smartphone use and social media use among the students on the campus, came an explosion of anxiety-related disorders on those campuses. That’s the canary in the coal mine.
Infants learn how to interact with their surroundings and discover ways to change their environments from their caregivers, and children learn to regulate their behaviors from observing their parents and caregivers.
High agency: how to feel more in control in your life and work
The lack of language affects even functions that do not seem to be intrinsically “linguistic,” such as math. Developmental research shows that keeping track of exact numbers above four requires knowing the words for these numbers.
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And one of the things that is my little reminder to myself is that when I feel like I need more grit, what I actually need is more help. And when I look at Amelia’s life, and I think, “She needs more discipline, she needs more perseverance, she needs to work harder,” what she actually needs is more kindness. That’s the baseline culture change that’s going to end burnout forever.
The way Goldstein describes it, non-attachment is about not holding on to anything that happens in life, whether those are experiences, events, or thoughts. That’s the difference with detachment, which means you pull away from something. Applying this concept in your life will have a huge difference in the way you live.
Detachment vs Non-attachment: Eastern Wisdom for Inner Peace
Never view falling as failure. See the truth of it as I did. Falling down is a necessary part of trial and error in motion. Observe the newborn attempting to walk or the young gymnast attempting to tumble. They succeed or learn. Win-Win!
And you surround yourself with a bubble of love, other teachers who can support you and tell you, “Yes, you deserve care. You are a valuable, educated, wonderful human being. You are not just, you know, Darth Vader dealing with these kids. You are a valuable person who deserves resources, who deserves care, who deserves love, who deserves freedom to oscillate.”
We can help remote workers get on top of their workloads and mitigate work-life balance conflicts by moving away from hyper-responsiveness and real-time communication towards greater asynchronous communication — the type that truly gives people the freedom to decide when and where to work.
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The research might also help us to avoid accidental faux pas when we act altruistically ourselves. At the very least, the research shows that you should avoid noisily broadcasting your good deeds. “And if people bring them up, you should downplay them,” says Raihani. Even if you think that you are simply sharing a bit of uplifting news about a cause that you care about, you should err on the side of modesty.
Reputation is the aggregation of ideas that have swarmed your body. Reputation is a list of your chronic afflictions.
As Raihani points out, we are constantly trying to second-guess the reasons for others’ actions – and we punish people harshly when we suspect that their motives are impure. Those instinctive suspicions may or may not be true, of course. We often base our judgements on intuition rather than hard facts.
Why overly kind and moral people can rub you up the wrong way
Generative art/design is any work created with an element of chance. We define some rules and allow a source of randomness to guide us to an outcome.
Once a view becomes part of your identity it’s almost impossible to see its flaws, when it needs to adapt, or has expired.
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Essemy (Jaycelle’s Birthday Song) Chords & Lyrics
Essemy (Jaycelle's Birthday Song)
Music and lyrics by Brian and Bryce
Composed on 25 - 27 November 2021
Esmi + Mommy + SMI = Essemy (read as SMI)
"Esmi" is slang for "misis" or "Mrs"
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Intro
E (bell pluck)
A - D - A - E-E
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Chorus Type 1 (plucking)
A D
You're the most beautiful mom
A E
You're the most beautiful wife
D A
You're the most beautiful SMI
F#m E D A E-E
And I, I, I love you - oh oh
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Stanza 1
D A
I love you so much
E A-A
I wanna kiss you
D
It's your birthday
A E (hold)
I wish you a happy cake
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Chorus Type 1 (strumming)
A D
You're the most beautiful mom
A E
You're the most beautiful wife
D A
You're the most beautiful SMI
F#m E D A E
And I, I, I love you - oh oh
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Chorus Type 2
A D E (bell pluck)
You're the most beautiful friend (I wish you kiss me)
A E E (bell pluck)
You're the most beautiful daughter (I love you daughter)
D A
You're the most beautiful SMI
F#m E D A E
And I, I, I love you - oh oh
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Bridge
F#m C#m D A
And I, I wish all your dreams come true oh-oh
F#m C#m D
And you, you're having a happy day
A E E (mid) E (high)
A happy happy happy birthday oh-oh oh
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Instrumental (strumming)
E (bell pluck)
A - D - A - E (mid)
D (lo) - A - F#m-E-D (hold)
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Chorus Type 1 (pluck + strum)
A D
You're the most beautiful mom
A E (mid)
And the most beautiful wife
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Outro
(pluck)
A (hi) D E (bell pluck)
And the most beautiful friend (I want to kiss you friend)
A E E (bell pluck)
And the most beautiful daughter (I miss you daughter)
(strum)
D A
You're the most beautiful SMI
F#m E-D A
And I, I love you
D A
You're our most beautiful, J-A-Y-celle
F#m E D A
I, I love you
F#m E D (hold)
And I, I, I
F#m (lo) E D (hold)
And I, I, I
(pluck)
E (mid) A (mid) E (hi) - E (hi+) end with a high note
love you - hmm hmm