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Author Archives: Posie Lombardi
Valuable UX-Driven Design
UX leads to a task-oriented analysis and top-down design of the solution. UX-driven Software Design is an improved way to design software. First, discovering the evidence of what makes software development an unpredictable science. Next, exploring how to turn requirements into visual artefacts for customers. Then, abstract visual artefacts to input and view models. Finally, using those models rather than domain and data to drive design and development. Presenting a top-down methodology for building most cost-effective software.
A.I. Executive Approach
The extremely volatile industry is overflowing with acquisitions, start-ups, products, name changing and solutions. A simplified and general overview is the new broken barrier of cloud, which spares the need to build your own or pay the full for storage – you only pay for what you use. Algorithmic bias is one of the massive concerns within Artificial Intelligence. The model not only reflects but reinforces prejudice and when Machine Learning provides results or answers and predictions, it isn’t accompanied with an explanation. This is called the “Black Box” of A.I.
Artificial Intelligence – The Big Picture
AI is taking over the IT industry as those who know how to leverage AI for problem solving can command significant increases in salaries from careers in Robotics to Computer Visionary Engineer with the incomes at £99k to £158k a year. Besides being a sophisticated topic, Artificial Intelligence is as much glorified as it isContinue reading “Artificial Intelligence – The Big Picture”
SDG’s and Me
What In 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals were adopted by 193 of the world’s countries. The 17 goals are a collective call to action for a global partnership within public, private and social sectors. Indicator data for the goals can be found here: https://sdg-tracker.org/ The United Nations report on SDG2020 can be downloaded here: https://www.unsdsn.org/Continue reading “SDG’s and Me”
How to Love the Wind
Revelling in the fact that there are financial contracts explicitly designed to benefit from volatility, and, the wind that extinguishes a candle also energizes the fire. Likewise with randomness, uncertainty & chaos: we want to be the fire and wish for the wind. You’d rather be helping Francis Ford Coppola build a butterfly farm onContinue reading “How to Love the Wind”
WWDC20 – Who What And Why
WWDC – aka Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference – takes place every year in June, and it will happen again in June 2020. But this year it will be different. On 13 March Apple announced: “The current health situation has required that we create a new WWDC 2020 format that delivers a full program with anContinue reading “WWDC20 – Who What And Why”
Christianity in Britain – Politics, Chance and Providence
Church for most medieval people on average, based on Professor Hutton’s research from Bristol University, suggests that only when there was a spectacle a few times a year would people go to take part in Sunday service.
Despite lack of ritual in attending church on Sunday, the Church would enforce an inescapable regulation upon the public – church-goes or not. The church controlled, influenced and regulated what people did during their day as much as they did in their own bed, according to an explanation by Dr Foot of Sheffield University. Birth to death, cradle to grave, it remained that from inception the Church ruled and proved to be the passport to heaven or hell based on whether they were your friend or foe.
How Divinity in Renaissance Art Can Appeal to a Modern Audience (Dissertation)
Renaissance art easily conjures mental imagery of both religious and erotic figures. Either heavily robed and demure, or athletic and provocatively nude. However, deeper symbolism can be missed by the most avid museum goer or gallery fiend.
As viewers, we are being primed in believing we can be divine while living vicariously through the divine beings. Identifying the Renaissance as a time of the greatest art acknowledges biblical art as the most influential. Whether blasphemous or erotic doesn’t diminish the fact that it is eternally provocative.
Gamification of Identity
It may be hard to see emoji’s addressing a significant social problem, but Unilever VP-Haircare Marketing Rob Candelino believes they can. “When 73% of people in this country claim to use emoji’s every day, they’re very quickly becoming the new currency of communications”.
To be represented with digital avatars is important for self-belief and identity establishment. This has been proved by the collaboration between Advertising agency Ogilvy Paris and Unilever’s Dove who together created curly haired emoji’s. The fact that these emoji’s and even the Bitmojis aren’t exactly interactive but more assisting text as a fixed image tool is evidence enough of the effect of digital representation on our self-image. If there was a gamification of self-improvement using the emoji’s that we feel narrate and express ourselves so well, the odds are in favour of it being well received.
