I love this tool so much. It makes so many difficult things easy, and it does it cheaply or free in almost every instance.

A long time ago I saw Eric do a presentation at An Event Apart in Seattle on something like Designing for People in Crisis. He used his trip with his daughter Rebecca to the emergency room as the example of why it's crucial to have a section of your hospital webpage for people in crisis that is very easy to read and very easy to use in case of shock, trauma and emergency. Things like phone numbers and emergency room drop directions/maps.

I was familiar with Eric's work at the time, but the vulnerability he showed in using his own tragedy as an example of why websites should be, essentially, accessible for people in various states of trauma and crisis was incredibly moving and made the case for accessible design in a personal, powerful way.

This would be a really good read if anything like it exists somewhere. Do you have notes, more to say, a direct link to relevant work, anything?

My notes are long gone, but it looks like Eric took some here: https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2016/01/25/designing-for-...

And it appears that this is the talk itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyZq6v3vZqo

It's amazing how dated the talk seems even though it's only 10 years old.

The talk references an insurance website that requires a Java applet for uploading a file. Last time I neede

It also praises Hipmunk for its ease of use. SAP bought hipmunk and shutdown the website in 2020. see https://www.concur.com/en-us/concur-hipmunk-faq

update: reddit had a couple of suggestions for alternatives - https://www.reddit.com/r/Flights/comments/13uqmba/website_wi...

Not sure if there's a comparable or better flight-booking site these days.

The CHOP (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) website looks more modern/cleaned up.

The Design For Real Life book is available to read for free on the web - see https://dfrlbook.com/

It will put the squeeze on the doctors and medical facilities. There are reports already that doctors can't access the payment portal for the work that they're doing.

I came back to revisit the article, but it's mysteriously disappeared.

Here's the Archive.org link for anyone who stumbles across it later: https://web.archive.org/web/20210918034921/http://timhulsize...

"Those Large Language Models are hungry!" XD

I think the title is actually Hillbilly Jazz, unless it's a deep, deep cut.

You’re right, I always mix up that and Danny Gatton’s album Redneck Jazz.

So the killer app for LLMs and AI in general is...a librarian?

Yes! Never in my career have I seen an organization do a good job of organizing institutional knowledge and making it easily available to employees. It'd be a huge benefit to many organizations to be able to ask questions of the collective text holdings.

Are we doing theories? Mine is that Peter Thiel sold Musk on buying Twitter by convincing him of his ability to make it profitable with his genius, knowing full well he'd sink the thing in 18 months, and another pesky tool would be off the table for awhile.

As someone who writes CSS for a lot of small projects, it's true that the code on the right is tighter and easier to read and manage, but that's not what frameworks are for. CSS frameworks like Tailwind and Bootstrap were designed to give large scale products easy patterns to remember and implement site- or app-wide, standardizing the language so that teams quit duplicating existing functionality under different, but still obscure, names.

Yes, if we scale down out projects we can write custom CSS for our HTML without the need for specific class names that refer to specific CSS aspects and make it more readable, but that's not what frameworks were built for, and comparing the two like this is disingenuous.

Open Props does it better. Styling is kept in CSS, but you still get reusable patterns and naming.