• UX of Banking – Making a Payment with mBank

    Few months ago, I stumbled upon Pete‘s Build for Mars. I really like the format they use for UX case studies and I thought I could try to replicate it for a Czech banking app (Don’t worry, I switched the app interface to English).

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  • Social Proof & Index Investing

    I’m reading Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Robert Cialdini). Recently, I read a chapter about social proof. It got me thinking whether index investing investors are victims (and possibly unbeknownst perpetrators) of a social proof scheme. Are we being played? This is my wild theory. Don’t take it too seriously.

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  • How to Spot a Scammy Streamer and Penumbra Postmortem (TWIL)

    https://www.derek-lieu.com/blog/2017/10/13/video-game-trailer-specifications-listEach of the major video game platforms has different video specifications for trailers; if your trailer doesn’t comply, you can waste valuable time re-submitting. #marketing https://www.ifa.com/articles/The_Dangers_of_Dollar-Cost_Averaging_Small_Amounts_with_ETFs/“ETFs show strength when sums are invested in larger amounts because the flat transaction fee becomes an increasingly small percentage of the amount invested.” #fin https://readme.io/Interactive online documentation for developers.…

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  • INDIESCHMOCALYPSE and Fashion Souls

    http://joostdevblog.blogspot.com/2018/01/entertaining-players-while-waiting-for.htmlEliminating boredom during the matchmaking process. #gamedev http://words.bighugelabs.com/plot.phpGenerate story plots like “A vampire makes it big by playing basketball”. #writing https://www.gdcvault.com/gamenarrativereviewStructured analysis of the narrative elements of games. #gamedev https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riicMjbPzmYNice elementary video how to draw a stylized owl. #creative

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  • Get Rid of Garbage in URLs and Data Beats Algorithms

    https://hellogrove.com/ This site offers personalized financial guidance for free. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-analytics-paramete/jbgedkkfkohoehhkknnmlodlobbhafge https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/utm-tracking-token-stripper/ Are you getting annoyed with garbage Google Analytics (UTM) tracking tokens in URLs? Use these extensions to get rid of them. More info: https://superuser.com/questions/1199899/can-i-manipulate-the-url-parameters-using-a-browser-extension

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