Audience Experience

NPR Headlines "All Things Considered" has Tech on their minds lately. Great government doublespeak of the day: This plan is "predecisional". The government is estimating that the need is about 30k to 40k people. And as a country, there are maybe 1000, total.  I don't know what qualifications they are talking about, or training or job duties.  They just need to hire a bunch of people that don't exist for threats they are not sure about to keep America "safe" in a future that nobody can predict. Immediately after, NPR turns to Apple falling behind in the world market.  Cellphones are the actual wave of the future.  Of the entire world.  (Not just nerdy Americans in Brooklyn.  And wannabes.) The Chinese market is growing.  India. Africa.  The numbers will be going after innovation.  The quickest, easiest smartphones that can deliver quick bits and bites (and bytes) of info.  The device has got to be inexpensive, smooth and work...

Some people really get off on the finite details of grammar and design. The people at Slate thought that declaring war on 2 spaces after a period was exciting enough to post an article about.  And then re-posted it 2 years later.  To mark the anniversary.  Old typesetter rule which carries over into modern technology, but doesn't matter enough to merit debate.  Always err on the side of ease of readability. I read it . You don't have to.  (Dullsville!!!)  And nowhere is there an actual coherent argument for why you should never ever do it.  As a User Experience professional, you should always choose what is easiest to read and what is easiest to implement.  If it's ingrained in your brain by now, don't stress over it.  Even if it were to become a war between the One Spacers and the Two Spacers, we can all think of more important things to fight over. Like the use of the word "ain't".  It is not used formally, but is considered "ac...