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Is it a bug?
There’s a moment every app team knows, but rarely designs for. Something fails. A screen freezes. A button does nothing. The user taps again, waits, closes the app, opens it again. And sometimes, they shake the phone. Not because people think it will fix the problem, but because... yeah, I know. We have all done it. Aikido says: do not fight the force. Redirect it. That is what this “feature” does…
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General Systems Theory
/00_welcome Before the first line of code. There are no users, no data, no bugs. Just diagrams, ideas and confidence. Someone says “Let’s keep it simple”. Another says “We can always fix it later”. It feels clean, rational.. safe. This is the most dangerous moment. /01_the_fix A decision that feels obvious. When designing a software product, the wrong person proposes an optimization “We should cen…
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Stay human
Fight club (1.999) begins with an unnamed man who has everything but feels nothing. Good job, clean apartment, perfect routine. Tyler Durden says the part that nobody wants to hear: Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate, so we can buy shit we don’t need. His crisis becomes chaos. The narrator starts an underground fight club to feel alive, again. The violence is not the…
