👉 Bookmark this website right now! — If you use special characters and emojis in your content — Medium, email, documents, social media — you know the pain. It’s always been a struggle for me to remember keyboard shortcuts such as “Option+G” for ©. It’s still challenging for me to pick from an array of emojis using…

My epic experience with hot-air balloons — Flying in the clouds… Soaring high… Romancing the sun… And touching the sky… For some, sky is not the limit; it is their home! I have always been fascinated by hot-air balloons — for me, they symbolize multiple things — hope, freedom, flamboyance, perspective, speed, and grace. A hot-air balloon…

Six Word Photo Story: Freestyle — What is missing — bicycle or broom? 🚲 🚲 🚲 🚲 🚲 🚲 🚲 🚲 🚲 🚲 🚲 🚲 🚲 🚲 🚲 🚲 🚲 🚲 🚲 🚲 🚲 🚲 🚲 🚲 🚲 🧹 🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹 E.T E.T E.T E.T E.T E.T E.T E.T E.T E.T E.T E.T E.T E.T E.T E.T E.T E.T E.T E.T …

Spring Six Word Photo Story Challenge: “Nature Art” — A Family Walk on the Moon 2014 December. It was my family’s first experience with snow. After a long drive of 5+ hours in traffic, we reached our destination: Lake Tahoe, California. We made a few stops on the way — to touch and feel and play with the snow. I remember wondering if anything could…

Functionality is the real deal, the rest is just cosmetics!? — Developers — programmers traditionally have a binary mindset. Yes and No. OK and Cancel. Input and Output. Zeros and Ones. Measurable objectivity resides in coding algorithms, business logic and data exchange routines. The measure is what developers like about systems programming — there’s hardly room for opinions. Almost everything can…

How young companies challenge the norms and make a dent. 🌟 — Startups and Product Design Designs and trends change over time in any practiced field, but this is especially true for the digital field. In the course of the introduction of PCs and other electronic calculating devices in the early 80’s, we have witnessed a vast array of experimental interfaces and a lengthy and interesting…

Get more read time by making it scannable 🔎 — People scan. They don’t read. The study was done by Jakob Nielsen on human eye tracking on a computer screen, in 1997 still holds water — 79% of users scan the content, but they don’t read it word-by-word. If we know this, why are we obsessed with writing longer stories…