This one amuses me. You skip the long-windedness of the front page to look at the pictures. Your eyes are caught by two example user interfaces: contact forms. The one on the left looks great. The one on the right looks awful. Yet it's the one on the left that has the big red X next to it. So you backtrack to read why they're wrong. The reason is because borders "feel" busy and cluttered. Nothing empirical. No data to back it up. Just "feelings".
This led me to believe the whole website/book is going to be like this, so I haven't read any further. I'm sure it's great.
> The one on the left looks great. The one on the right looks awful.
This is also just a mere assertion of "feelings", with nothing empirical and no data to back it up.
As long as those are the rules we're playing by, I'll say that to me, the design on the left screams "designed by a dev", in the pejorative sense, while the one on the right looks like it had a designer involved.
Whether there are actual usability improvements is an orthogonal issue, but I don't feel there's a huge gap between the two.
I feel a lot of this comes down to trends, rather than actual usability. Keeping up with the latest trends in UI design is a signal that you care enough about design and UX to employ and empower a designer/ design team.
Paradoxically, sometimes signalling you care about design might involve making the UX worse (relative to what the user base is trained on), if that's what the trends dictate. For example, the sudden overcompensated reaction against skeumorphism that was "flat design".
For me, the main takeaway is something we all already know: that even though the CFR is low in younger healthy people, the hospitalisation rate is extremely high, and that's been one of the most important factors in this pandemic.
It's nice to finally see the hospitalisation risk presented clearly.
We have a lot more ECMO capacity than people think, CPB machines from heart surgery cases can be used to provide ECMO which are at least an order of magnitude more common than classic ECMO machines.
I know someone that was on QA at a major international horn manufacturer, the minimum activation cycles before failure for India were ~10x-50x higher than for other markets.
The overhand [1] and double overhand are quite different knots. Actually, since you specify that you mean the "Euro Death Knot", it is actually a "flat overhand bend" [2].
The parent's statement is not false, it's just that one must be precise about naming, because casual use leads to incorrect assumptions by others.
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