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User Input
By: Ahmed Yasin
Tags: Programming, Writing, Machine Learning, Language, Mathematics Education

C++ Basics :

User Input

To better understand someone. It is necessary to build a relation in which you both can communicate with each other easily.

I am going to discuss about some expressions and user input since I have already discussed about data types in my DATA TYPE blog. In which I have written that data type is kind of sense of computer through which computer understand what type of data you are providing and what kind of data you demanding. As I have also discussed about some data types such as int for Integers to Input/Output, float for decimals numbers to Input/Output and char variable to alphabets for Input/Output.

Well as you all are familiar with the type of expression. An expression is a group of numbers variables and operators. There are many types of expressions in mathematics ( i.e : Monomial expressions, Binomial expressions, Polynomial expressions,Linear expressions, Quadratic expressions ,Cubic expressions ,bi-quadratic expressions,Numeric expressions, Variable expressions and many more). Now I want to give you slightly review about each expressions.

Monomial expression :

An expression which is consist of one term ,one integer or coefficient(A number which multiply with a variable) and one or more variables or character such as :-Monomial expression :

An expression which is consist of one term ,one integer or coefficient(A number which multiply with a variable) and one or more variables or character such as :-

7xy where 7 is coefficient and x,y are two variables or 38xyz is another type of monomial.

Binomial expressions :

An expression consist of two unlike terms and an operator such as :-

5x + 3 where 5x is first term and 3 is second term minus sign( — ) is an operator.

Polynomial expressions :

figure 1.1

An expressions consist of one or two or many terms as shown in figure 1.1.

where x square is single term expressions. y square + 2y -1 is three term expression and so on.

Linear expression : An expressions in which power of x is one such expression is called as linear expression.

Quadratic expression : An expression in which power of x is two or square such expression is called as quadratic expression.

Cubic expressions : An expression in which power of x is three or cube such expression is called as cubic expression.

Bi-quadratic or Quartic expression : An expression in which power of x is four such expression is called as Bi-quadratic expression.

Here I have shown examples of linear, quadratic, cubic and bi-quadratic expressions respectively.

Numeric expression : An expression consist on two or more numeral terms and an operator/operators.

Variable expression : An expression consist on two or more alphabetic terms and an operators/operators.

Here I have also shown examples of numeric and variable expression.
Overcome Obstacles to Grow Your Career
By: Dayana Sabatin
Tags: Self Improvement, Success, Self, Lifestyle, Entrepreneurship

“What’s the secret?” “How did you do it?” “Very cool, okay but like how did you really do it? Did you take something?” “Where do I buy whatever course you took to become as good as you are now?” “Thank you so much for doing this, I appreciate you for taking the time to tell me your background and sharing all of those setbacks you had and the advice on how you overcame it all… so what’s the secret though?”

That used to be me — as well as a lot of you when you’re trying to grow your career.

Every person you look up to — is a magical unicorn in your eyes; you just can’t fathom how they got to where they’re at. They must have done something to get there — it can’t be merely hard work and perseverance because that’s what you’ve been doing for the last two months straight.

No, absolutely not. They must be part of an elite group — or better yet, they’re all just naturally born with a scarlet letter. S for Successful.

When you see people doing what you want to do, and they’re doing it well, something shifts inside you, resulting in you doing 1 of 2 things.

a.) You’re inspired — you’re amped up and ready to get to work

b.) You think, “They just got lucky, I could never reach that level of success, it’s too hard.” And you don’t even bother trying.

Jim Rohn once said,

“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.”

As you’re navigating through your career — the first few months, and even years — will be rough. You’re going to come face-to-face with obstacles that can either break you — or be the next step into your career blooming.

Here are a few essentials that will help you overcome those obstacles seamlessly.
Data Visualization in Python
By: Vivek Amilkanthawar
Tags: Machine Learning Tools, Data Analysis, Python, Data Science, Data Visualization

こんにちは、 ゴーリストのビベックです。

Hello World! This is Vivek from Goalist.

If you want to build a very powerful machine learning algorithm on structured data then the first step to take is to explore the data every which way you can. You draw a Histogram; you draw a Correlogram; you draw Cross Plots, you really want to understand what is in that data what does each variable mean, what its distribution is and ideally how was it collected.

Once you have a real rock solid understanding of what’s in the data, only then can you smoothly into creating your machine learning model.

“roll down the hill”

In this post, let’s go through the different libraries in Python and gain some insight into our data by visualizing it.

Along with me, you may want to try and experiment with the packages that we are about to explore. Use Google Colab to follow along.

Well, you may ask what is Google Colab?

Colaboratory is a free Jupyter notebook environment that requires no setup and runs entirely in the cloud. With Colaboratory you can write and execute code, save and share your analyses, and access powerful computing resources, all for free from your browser.

Learn more about Google Colab here…

Follow this URL to create your notebook

So let’s get started…

We’ll be using the following packages to plot different graphs

Matplotlib

Seaborn

Bokeh

Out of these, Matplotlib is the most common charting package, see its documentation for details, and its examples for inspiration.

1) Line Graphs

A line graph is commonly used to show trends over time. It can help readers to understand your data in a few seconds.

Sample code to generate a Line Graph is given below. Go ahead and open the sample code in Colab and experiment with it.
What to Know About Using Cannabis Right Now
By: Ashley Laderer
Tags: Marijuana, Body, Cannabis, Covid 19, Coronavirus

What to Know About Using Cannabis Right Now

Should consumers be concerned about weed in the age of Covid-19?

Photo: Gabriella Giannini/EyeEm/Getty Images

During this time of national lockdown, some states have deemed medical and/or recreational cannabis dispensaries to be essential businesses, keeping them open while following new safety precautions, such as allowing for curbside pickup so customers don’t have to come in contact with other shoppers and dispensary employees and delivery people wearing gloves and masks while working. (Rules are changing every day, but as of March 30, 21 states had dispensaries open to some extent.)

But should consumers be concerned about using cannabis — particularly inhaling it — considering Covid-19 attacks the respiratory system, especially your lungs?

While research on the effects of smoking cannabis on the novel coronavirus is scarce, experts warn that smoking or vaping anything is certainly not great for the lungs, no matter if it’s during a pandemic or not. “[Whether you’re] smoking tobacco, smoking cannabis, or vaping, you’re introducing foreign elements down deep into the lungs,” says Richard Castriotta, MD, a pulmonary critical care and sleep medicine specialist at Keck Medicine at the University of Southern California. “If you do a lot of it, you have more risk of a sustained injury with less of a chance for the lungs to recuperate and heal themselves over.”

American Lung Association spokesperson Cedric “Jamie” Rutland, MD says smoking specifically damages type 2 pneumocyte cells in the lungs — cells that are crucial to providing support to the lungs.

“It turns out the coronavirus also binds to the type 2 pneumocytea and causes significant illness that way,” Rutland says. “If you already have less type 2 pneumocytes, your lung is already under a significant amount of stress. So if you smoke and you contract the coronavirus, you’re probably going to be that much worse off.”

Castriotta also urges people to stop vaping — tobacco and cannabis — due to the added chemicals and their unknown long-term effects. He especially warns against using illicit cannabis vapes that have not been properly regulated and tested and are sold legally. Illicit vapes are often contaminated with vitamin E acetate, a chemical that has been linked to many cases of respiratory illness and death.

“Anything that you could do to reduce the risk of lung injury, you should do,” he says. “If you smoke anything and injure the lung in any way, you’re increasing the risk of the virus being able to penetrate deeper into the lung.”
Scraping Whiskey Review Data to Build a Recommendation System
By: Austin L.E. Krause
Tags: Programming, Data Science, Python, Machine Learning, Recommendation System

The Data

We collected our data from whiskybase, which is a website devoted to whiskey enthusiasts. Users on the site can rate whiskeys from all around the world and share their ratings and profile with all other users on the site.

To gather our data we needed three primary components:

User ID

Whiskey the user rated

Rating for that specific whiskey

Scraping the data at first seemed to be an easy task — just use BeautifulSoup4 to pull the specific HTML tags from the page to get the content we needed. But wait, not so fast. Of course, there turned out to be more barriers than anticipated to get to the pages we needed. We realized that, for our script to run properly, we would need to be able to sign in to whiskeybase to access the profiles of the other users on the website.

The perfect solution for this task is a package called Selenium (one of the coolest packages I’ve worked with). Selenium is a web automation tool that can be used to mimic human interactions with web pages. So we added this to our script to allow for an auto sign-in feature.

Now with Selenium working, we’re able to successfully scrape the data that’s needed. We end up gathering user review data from the top 1,000 whiskeys in the world, as well as whiskeybase’s list of newly released whiskeys.

When our scrape was finished we had data from:
Fascinating read.
By: Arindam Basu
Tags: Creative Process, Storytelling

Fascinating read. The author gives you a glimpse where his ideas come from. From observations of a mind that flows like a river. Easy. You see a word in your day job, and there is the start of a story.

It is said that the great sage, Valmiki, who wrote the Indian epic, Ramayana, started when he saw two crows. All our stories begin from, well, let’s say, spring from the world around us. The five skandhas, as The Buddha would say.

Then the mind. The story is always there. It needs an excuse. Go find it.
It’s almost NaNoWriMo Eve
By: Legitimate Geek
Tags: Writing, Authors, Novel, Entertainment, Novel Writing

Fear is funny, it keeps you from doing things that you should do and stuff that you have always wanted to do. Learning to overcome your fears is a vital part of growing up. You just have to learn when you should do it and when you should let your better judgement take precedence.

I’m attempting to overcome my fears this time to hopefully complete a novel during the 2017 National Novel Writing event. I’ve got a pretty good idea of the plot I want to use, I’ve figured out how I am going to be writing it (I’ve started my own medium publication) and I am raring to go. Now if I only had any freaking clue how I should start without flaming out that would be good, but you don’t always get what you want.

Reading and writing are passions of mine. I can’t exactly say why I haven’t made the attempt before. If I’m being totally honest I feel like the fat kid who is getting ready to publicly ask out the hottest girl in school. In short, I love the concept and have dreams about a pleasant result but I am absolutely terrified of the possibility of getting laughed at.

For now, I’m keeping an open mind. I shall not expect too much for a first time effort like this. It likely won’t be the great American Novel. My goal is going to be fairly simple then. I’ll settle for people not wondering what sort of hallucinogens I was on when I came up with the plot.

If you want to follow along with my journey you can see more about my work attempts here. I’ll also be posting a short summary of my efforts and the plot to date on the National Novel Writing Month publication. Even if my worst fears occur and I bomb, perhaps I can help someone with my thoughts.
You will be surprised by the custom event in Vue js
By: Madhu Sudhan Subedi
Tags: JavaScript, Software Development, Vuejs

There are a lot of rich set of events in vue js and the facility of adding custom events.

If you are familiar with Vue, Props are used while sending data to the child component and events are used to change the state of the parent component.

The below code is nothing special and is just a modified version of this example of vue js custom events.

Custom event in vue js

In html section, you can see the component tag where surprise event is the custom event.

After you click the Surprise Me button, a click event is fired from the inside of the surprise-app component, in which the surprise method is called. The surprise method of that component is responsible for emitting the surprise event, which is listened by the:

<surprise-app @surprise=”surpriseMe”></surprise-app>

after which the surpriseMe method of the Vue instance is called and the surpriseMessage is filled with ‘you got surprised’.

I apologise, if I didn’t surprise you !
Wrapping Up My Gratitude This Year in Christmas Paper and Ribbons.
By: Liz Porter
Tags: Self Improvement, Writing, Gratitude, Christmas, Ｍedium

Wrapping Up My Gratitude This Year in Christmas Paper and Ribbons. As 2020 comes to a close, I glanced back over my first eight months writing on Medium. I’ve learned so much from so many and found a passion that had been lying dormant under a pile of self-doubt.

Please help me celebrate those who made a difference in 2020 :) Casey Botticello and his Blogging Guide were instrumental in my growth on Medium. Brian Brewington, the editor of Journal of Journeys, published my first story and gave me hope! Dr. Mehmet Yildiz of ILLUMINATION and ILLUMINATION-Curated helped me take it to a new level, and Dew Langrial helped promote my work. Thanks to Nicole Akers, founder of Publishous, and Dr. Christine Bradstreet, editor of Change Your Mind Change Your Life, for your great tips and encouraging words!
My Passion Sets Me Ablaze
By: Darshak Rana
Tags: Poetry, Spirituality, Life, Poem, Writing

POETRY | SPIRITUALITY

My Passion Sets Me Ablaze

A Poem

Photo by Blake Cheek on Unsplash

When the sunrays puncture the skies,

When the first light of the day disperses the darkness,

When the warmth of the day’s love touches me,

My dreams come alive.

My passion burns and cooks my life.

Every day, I wake up, I feel alive.

I feel refreshed to achieve something new.

I feel energized to conquer my fears.

To visualize my emotions, I write.

I write to feel myself.

I write because that’s my life.

I write because I know nothing else.

I know no fancy,

I know nothing else other than simplicity,

I hope to touch hearts through my thoughts,

Just as nature loves us without words.
“Best Before”
By: Lita Tiara
Tags: Nonfiction, A Cornered Gurl, Short Story, This Happened To Me, Life

— an anecdote of potpourris.

“Best Before”

Answer me this: am I sick?

Photo by Gantas Vaičiulėnas from Pexels

Best before: 2023.12.25

That’s an odd number. 25–12–23. Why that day? Why that specific number? That doesn’t even make any sense, what’s so special about it? Is it because it’s Christmas?

December 25, 2023. That’s a crazy number, I’d be 23 then! Maybe the rest of the label tells a hint.

Gardenia-Scented Body Wash.

Why did they call it gardenia? It is flowery, but is this what an entire garden would smell like? I never had a garden big enough to tell which scent goes to which flower.

Is gardenia a flower? Does this have anything to do with the Christmas thing? No, this doesn’t have anything to do with the Christmas thing. Why did I buy gardenia; I don’t even know what that is.

Best before: 2023.12.25

December 25th, 2023. My birthday is just a week before that. Did they set the date to be near my birthday? Did they know I was going to buy this specific bottle? No that doesn’t make any sense at all. I’m just paranoid. Why would they choose me?

Are they choosing me, though? But why would they reveal themselves through a body wash? Who are “they”? Maybe this is a test. If I call the customer support and reveal the answer, I’ll win a gold medal. Wait they don’t give medals anymore, do they?

“Best before.”

Three years from now. Why then? If the bottle is tainted somehow, it wouldn’t be any good — even after a year. What’s in this bottle that makes it go bad within three years? I’m not a chemist, if I read the label I’ll only know water. But why three years?

It would be nice I guess if people were born with a “best before” label tattooed on them. We all know what they say, it’s best for us to just live our lives as best as we can, appreciate everything we have before our time runs out, and that somehow it’s always better to not know when you’re gonna go.
Making peace with your past
By: Dayon Cotton
Tags: This Happened To Me, Mental Health, Self, Self Improvement, Life Lessons

Living With Past Hurt

When you reach a point where happiness is the priority, what do you do with your past emotional trauma? My life has reached a high point where I’m living peacefully, and for the most part, I’m pretty comfortable. However, comfort and conflict are in direct opposition to one another. Like bickering family members, they rarely see eye to eye and fight for dominance.

A comfortable life with a conflicted soul is a poor combination. These days, I lack the adversity I knew when I was growing up. My self-awareness of my desires and a better environment has led to a better quality of life as a whole.

Except deep down inside, I yearn for that source of…Injustice.

Even in my writing, in the past few years, my work has become increasingly focused on the different origins of “hurt” that I have experienced.

I have dealt with various personal Injustices in my 27 years of living on this planet.

In a way, experiencing so much personal trauma can take its toll on your psyche. It has a way of hardening your heart and blinding you to the world around you.

Friendly interactions with the people around you could be perceived as threatening due to your past experiences.

Relationships are made increasingly more complex due to past damage and could lead to inadvertently hurting someone you care about.

Micro-interactions with the world around you escalate to something much greater…

…because…deep down inside…

You’ve created your own personal inner demon. Originating from the source of your Injustice, they crave retribution. They desire comeuppance to the racists, bigots, and bullies.

The wrong that was committed to you now gives you vindication. You feel justified to be wary of the world around you. You maintain your guard and look for the opportunity to strike back when the chance presents itself.

You were WRONGED…and the world needs to know it.

That’s your inner demon speaking. Instead of living in the moment and enjoying your happiness, you’re fixated on the negative.

Honestly, it’s so much easier to give in to the pain inside than constantly rising above it.

Comfort and conflict rarely see eye to eye.
MS Excel — Two Awesome Conditional Formatting Tips
By: Don Tomoff
Tags: Conditional Formatting, Excel, Reporting, Productivity

INTRODUCTION

Conditional formatting is a great way to highlight items for the spreadsheet user. But, setting the conditions up can be tricky.

It’s even more confusing when you introduce variables into the formatting (so that user can define what to format).

But, persevere and the payoff is significant!

Two of my favorite techniques when working with lists of data are to highlight entire rows in tables when specific values are found in certain selected table columns (e.g., highlight all rows where company market cap exceeds a certain value).

HOW?

I use two Excel functions which make this happen — INDIRECT and SEARCH, based on scenario.

INDIRECT

“ The Excel INDIRECT function returns a valid reference from a given text string. Use INDIRECT when you need to convert a reference assembled as text into a proper reference.”

SEARCH

“ The Excel SEARCH function returns the location of one text string inside another. SEARCH returns the position of the first character of find_text inside within_text. Unlike FIND, SEARCH allows wildcards, and is not case-sensitive.”

To see how these functions work with conditional formatting, you can check out the Slideshare below:
Can AI make an Art Introduction?
By: Kinar Ravishankar
Tags: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, TensorFlow, Art, Deep Learning

With recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence, we at YML Innovation Labs were curious whether art introductions can be automated. In this article we explore how we went about creating such an art exhibition in NYC with Damjanski.

It’s not too long since OpenAI cautiously revealed the capabilities of its language generation learning model GPT-2, taking the task of performing language modelling to the next level. While knowing that it performs well on a number of language benchmarks, everyone’s been talking about it, so we decided to take a look at it and see what we could conjure up something for the art world. This was part of a kick-off with the artist Damjanski to create a solution to showcase statements of an art exhibit named Museum of Modern Art, generated in response to questions answered by folks coming to the art performance. This project investigates ideas of collaboration with an AI and its integration into the artist’s practice. Exploring the subject of thinking processes is an AI based on all the archived exhibition statements of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. The exhibition comprises of a headset where people can interact with the AI to create new exhibition statements in the form of printed text. These statements serve as a means for artists to think about the generated information in new ways.
Content Is King
By: Javar Narine
Tags: Social Media, Marketing, Content

Lights…Camera…Acton!

Social media changed a lot about society. We communicate, share, comment, support, motivate, laugh, and lots more with each other with just the click of a button using the power of social media. Social media has become our main source of information (sometimes disinformation). It’s our spell check, our problem-solver, and our one-stop-shop for all the questions we might have or things we want to buy or places we want to find. Social media in my opinion took marketing to another level and made it (marketing) a lot more powerful and influential. Given the fact that I haven’t been in the business of marketing for long. I’ve learned that the main goal of marketing is to get as many eyes of potential customers on your product as possible. What better tool is there in the world for marketers to use to achieve their goal other than social media. Social media has a monopoly on our attention. One of the biggest reasons people are on social media maybe even the biggest is entertainment. Social media is the new television that we can carry around with us in our pockets. We can pull out our phones whenever we’re bored and need something to laugh at or maybe we might need something to occupy our time for a while. Being able to carry your socials with you everywhere you go is probably the reason why it has so much of our attention. It’s always with us. Marketers are capitalizing on this by using social ads, but content in my opinion is the best tool to get consumers to engage with and become aware of your product. Things are moving at the speed of light and people are consuming content at the same pace. Yes, there is a lot more content being produced by independent content creators, but also new people are joining social media every day. While the people who are already there are looking for new things to watch so they can share with their friends and brag to them about being the first to find this new piece of content. Staying consistent on socials putting out content for people to watch and share can bring more potential customers to you. Take a page from the president himself. He may not be making videos or have a youtube channel where he does tutorials, but he doesn’t need to the media networks make the videos for him. Trump is constantly in the news and making headlines every day. Yes, Trump is going to make headlines and get attention because he is the president but I haven’t seen anything like him in my lifetime. Trump is also on Twitter engaging with his followers and with people that don’t like him. If there is one thing that’s for sure about trump it’s that he knows the value of being on the minds of other people. With the attention, he gains Trump has more influence on the people that love him while also getting the people that hate him to talk about him. Whether you love him or hate him Trump’s attention-grabbing ability is something marketers should apply to their business.
Finding a New Normal
By: Paul Mulliner
Tags: Meditation, Self-awareness, Mindfulness, Personal Development, Life

As we begin to reinvent the way we live on our planet, there’s a simple process that can help us: becoming aware of awareness.

Often referred to as mindfulness, this everyday inward focusing of our attention helps us be more tuned in to our intuitive and creative self.

While the political changes needed to improve life seem to progress slowly, here’s something we can bring into our lives today that really makes a difference.
DreamTeam Digest #24
Tags: Gaming, Blockchain, Esports, Games, Startup

Dear Contributor,

Here’s a quick DreamTeam update. Since the last digest, our CEO has taken part in a crypto interview, DreamTeam has been nominated for the EuroAsian Startup Awards, we‘ve released our Q2’2019 report, and have been mentioned in several crypto publications.

Check out the details below.

DreamTeam CEO Alexander Kokhanovskyy talks to Coincentral

Alexander Kokhanovskyy talks to Coincentral about gaming’s past, present, and future. Find out what he thinks about the current state of esports and how DreamTeam is doing its part to continue the esports evolution. Learn more here.

DreamTeam has been nominated for the EuroAsian Startup Awards

DreamTeam has been nominated for the EuroAsian Startup Awards, which is a part of the Global Startup Awards. The EASAwards provide an annual spotlight to those who dare to dream big and shape our future. The finalists will be announced on August 12th. Learn more about the EASAwards here.

DreamTeam Q2’2019 Report has been released

Q2 2019 has come to an end. DreamTeam has been busy with Apex Legends, the DREAM token, and many other updates and tweaks. If you missed our Report you can find it here.

Reasons to use blockchain in gaming

Such new technologies as AI, VR, and blockchain provide a lot of opportunities for mobile and PC gaming. Blockchain creates a new way for people to interact with games — sell and buy in-game items for real currencies. In this article, we’ll discuss how blockchain operates in the gaming field and how DreamTeam is using this technology.

Sincerely,

The DreamTeam Crew

About DreamTeam:

DreamTeam — infrastructure platform and payment gateway for esports and gaming.

Stay in touch: Token Website|Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn|BitcoinTalk.org

If you have any questions, feel free to contact our support team any time at token@dreamteam.gg. Or you can always get in touch with us via our official Telegram chat.
birth
By: Rebeca Ansar
Tags: Storytelling, Poet, Poem, Creative Writing, Poetry

first you were a stringy substance.

helpless from most angles, wielded

by the force of life surging through

when amenable- a twinkle in your eyes

mostly a cacophony of hard-wired urges-

for consciousness, the first education in Need

your skin still bore the scent of your maternal home

miniature fingers wrapped themselves around your father’s one

immutable ring of commitment

enough to heal the broken years

then your mother held you on her tired chest

she studied two new onyx eyes

and fell in love with the nascent bloom.
How I Got Access to Other People’s Medium Accounts
Tags: Python, Hacking, Technology, Cybersecurity, Programming

Medium’s API

What could someone do with a key for the Mediums API? As always, the best information can be found in the API documentation, so let’s have a look at Medium’s API docs.

As we can see, the document is pretty short and only a few methods are provided. Every request goes to api.medium.com and contains the HTTP header Authorization: Bearer <auth key> . The first request one could send is obviously to /v1/me and the response would contain the user’s id, name, and a link to the profile. This helped me to identify and notify the person behind the discovered keys.

A more critical method is the request to create and publish new posts or send them to publications. As this, publishing articles, is the core functionality of Medium, having another person’s authentication key means owning his or her account.

Some things that the API does not provide is the option to change settings or view private and sensitive information. I have also not found a possibility to view someone's drafts. Of course, I tested all options with my own account only.
A New User, Candour Design and User Experience
By: Salman Habib
Tags: User Experience, New York, Design Process, User Research, Design Thinking

It is a fact that some accidents, incidents and natural disasters precede many changes and gradually human life adopt these changes. But Covid-19 has rapidly changed the way of life. This virus has done a lot of damage to every industry but on other hand e-commerce business has grown faster than expected. An example of this is the sudden increase in the wealth of Amazon owner Jeff Bezos. Now everyone is doing or thinking of doing their business online. In short, in coming days you will see every business existence online in the form of website or mobile application. As a user experience designer, I am seeing a lot of challenges coming to ux community. And the biggest challenge is that user we haven’t dealt with yet.

From my observations and studies I can explain this user through some of the following points.

A conservative type person who can be a businessman, shopkeeper or any office holder or a skilled work. Zero experience of online shopping and buying. Only use cash for selling purchasing. Not even a bank account. Use his phone only for calls. Might be very allergic to internet before corona. Age 40 years or onward

All are above points are kind of feature of this user. Now we need to introduce a new dimension to UX strategies. We have to come up with a solution to all the pains and problems that are in the mind of this type of user. Also we need to create more trust factor in product design than ever before. As individual I can’t completely define this user but jointly we ux community can do.

Regarding this kind of user I invented a term called Candour Design in which we have to earn the trust of this user and make a trusty, honest, traditional, friendly environment. In coming days I will briefly explain Candour Design.

Right now I am working on it and also will share new ux strategies for our new user. I am very grateful if someone want to part of my study or better guide me. Need suggestions and tips. Thanks!
How To Market Elon Musk
By: Rufat Rassulov
Tags: Branding, Personal Branding, Technology, Elon Musk, Marketing

He is Relevant

Remember Elon Musk memes? Of course you do. This is how you build relevance, especially with youth. He uses Twitter and tweets every day, one of the richest men in the world is literally reposting memes, how can’t you relate or like him?

Younger people’s attention is important to capture right now because in a few years they will be able to give you money. They are the people who will buy Tesla cars just because they remember their childhood idol. As Gary Vee said, people who are in their 40s right now are still influenced by pop culture in the 80s and 90s especially in fashion.

Strong statements are also the thing that defines Elon from the rest. He can announce anything, anytime on Twitter, and he doesn't care if his company’s stock market shares will drop. This is what people like in him. He also admits his mistakes, he is human.

Moreover, there’s The Boring Company, which is basically made just for fun, they sell some useless stuff like “not a flamethrower”, but it’s still sold out in a few hours.
Browser Automation with Python and Selenium — 3: Architecture
By: Coşkun Deniz
Tags: Python, Automation, Technology, Programming, Selenium

Primary Building Blocks

Selenium Client Libraries: Selenium Client Libraries or Selenium Language Bindings allow us to write automation scripts in the language of our choice like Python, Ruby, Java, etc.

Selenium Client Libraries or Selenium Language Bindings allow us to write automation scripts in the language of our choice like Python, Ruby, Java, etc. JSON Wire Protocol: JSON Wire Protocol is a REST-based API that is responsible for communication between the selenium scripts and the browser drivers.

JSON Wire Protocol is a REST-based API that is responsible for communication between the selenium scripts and the browser drivers. Browser Drivers: Selenium script communicates with the actual browser through the related browser driver. Browser drivers are responsible for controlling the real browser. The driver runs on the same system as the browser. Selenium framework does not need to know the implementation details of different web browsers thanks to drivers.

Selenium script communicates with the actual browser through the related browser driver. Browser drivers are responsible for controlling the real browser. The driver runs on the same system as the browser. Selenium framework does not need to know the implementation details of different web browsers thanks to drivers. Browsers: These are the actual browsers on which the desired automation tasks are performed. They receive the command from the driver and call the respective method to accomplish the task. After executing the command they return the response through the same route.

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Types of Communication

Selenium WebDriver talks to browsers in 2 different ways: direct and remote.

1. Direct Communication

WebDriver talks to a browser through a driver. WebDriver, browser driver, and the real browser are on the same system in this type of communication. WebDriver passes commands and receives responses through the same route.

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2. Remote Communication

Communication can also be remote through Selenium Server or RemoteWebDriver. In this case, RemoteWebDriver runs on the same system as the driver and the browser. Commands are sent and received over the remote webdriver.

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Another way of remote communication is through Selenium Server or Selenium Grid components. They talk to the browser driver on the host system.

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As stated in the official documentation
Microsoft automates design handoff with Figma’s API [Video]
By: Morgan Kennedy
Tags: Case Studies, Design

Each year, Microsoft hosts a company-wide hackathon called, OneWeek. Known as the largest private hackathon in the world, Microsoft employees are encouraged to step away from their day jobs and use the time to dream big, tackle problems, and pursue passions. For the Dynamics365 for Talent design team, that meant it was time to focus on streamlining the laborious handoff between design and engineering.

Video was produced by Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Talent team

Ever since the release of Microsoft’s Fluent Design System, the Dynamics 365 for Talent team has been hyper focused on scaling out visceral design elements rather than building out new features (aka, the fun stuff). While striving to hit a 1:10 ratio of designers to engineers on the team, there was an overwhelming need to streamline handoff. Designers had to campaign and negotiate even the smallest design updates. While the engineers had to prioritize each request against the extensive workload that comes with being at a large enterprise company. As a result, it would take up to a week, sometimes longer, to push a single design element to production. There had to be a better way!

As a team of Figma power users, they were confident Figma’s web based API could do the trick. So for their OneWeek project, the team hacked the workflow.

Framework for leveraging Figma’s API

By utilizing the Figma webhook, designers can save a new version of a file which then automatically creates a pull request for design and engineering to sign off on and commit — and voilà, designs are pushed live! According to the team, the new automated process can easily reduce their workflow by 70%. That means designers have more time to design and engineers have more time to focus on development. A win win for all.
Talkoot podcast: Service Design in Practice the early years
By: Ben Proctor
Tags: Service Design, Social Housing, Culture Change, Wales, Development

Apply and test your learning over 6 months

We’re working in partnership with CIH Cymru on a project that I’m, personally, really excited by.

Service Design in Practice is a new learning and development programme for people who have service design responsibilities. It goes beyond traditional training courses (in fact it is complementary to them).

Learning the theory is fairly straight forward. Putting it into practice can be difficult, especially without support.

We’ve teamed up with Melys Phinnemore who is a leadership and development specialist and partnered with CIH Cymru to run a pilot cohort.

The other day I sat down with Melys and Jo Carter to find out more about how the project is going. And as I had my microphone I turned it in to an edition of our Talkoot podcast series.

I hope you like it

You can find out more about Service Design in Practice over on the CIH Cymru website.

Jo Carter explained some of the background to the programme on our blog.

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Fate, Coincidence, and Whatnot
By: Marm Dixit
Tags: Destiny, Fate, Writing, Translation, Poetry

There’s always a lot of ways to explain life as we know it. And I do not mean it in the metaphysical sense of the bigger why questions. Douglas Adams answered the biggest ‘why’ questions extremely succinctly when he asked back, ‘why not?’ I meant the banal, everyday hand of cards that we are all dealt. There’s fate, there’s coincidence, there’s luck, there’s chance: these are the standard fallback to explain what happens to us day-to-day. We came up with horoscopes to blame it all on stars and planets that are reasonably far out and are not going to come in and lodge a complaint anytime soon for slander. In India, they look at the lines on a person’s palms and predict what fate has in store for them. And there are people who believe what gets prophesied this way. I think there’s always been a market for fortune tellers and soothsayers in the society. Now that I’m thinking about it, I believe this is primarily because we want to be told by someone other than us that it will all be alright. Probably, we all want to be placated as we try and wade through the tides of life.

I am of the opinion that the whole thing is hogwash. Fates should not be written: while written, stories can be beautiful, they are essentially bound in that prison. They can only mean just that for the rest of times. (Thus, in the same line of thought, a dictionary is one of the worst prisons for words ever created). There are lots of way I think the fates work, one of them is this. Out there somewhere, is an ocean of thoughts. All thoughts that can be head, are thus, random sips of that same ocean. All we do in living is drink at random from this sea of occurrences, that puts us onto the paths that gets one to the forked roads where we get to decide which path to take.

Thus, all a man is, are his circumstances and his choices.

The poem this time is not as heady as the write up here. I heard it on the radio, and wrote it down. I cannot seem to find the poet for this one, so if anybody knows let me know. The poet takes about an incident, and I love the portrayal of that incident. It changed everything for him, as he later tells. Maybe they crossed while walking, and exchanged a glance. What I like about this poem is the emotion that he manages to carry in a small incident. Probably tells me there’s still hope. But who am I kidding here? Hope you enjoy.
8 Awesome Designs from Last Week — Week Six
By: Alex Brown
Tags: App Design, UI, Web Design, Inspiration, Design

This is a weekly series where I share some awesome design work from the seven days. The work you see here wont just be the popular big designers but the small guys as well.

This list is curated by me, Alex Brown, a freelance developer and creator of Snackify and Photo Ipsum.

by Bart Ebbekink

by Aman Singh

by Lukas Svarc for Norde

by Britton Stipetic

by Cody Pearson

by Zhenya Rynzhuk

by McLane Teitel for Squarespace

by David TJ Powell

My Weekly Shot

by Alex Brown

Thanks for reading!

Which one was your favorite?

Props to all of the creators work featured here. You did some awesome work this week! If you liked their work make sure to show them some love.

Do you have a submission for next week? Reach out to me on Instagram!
Design better data tables
By: Andrew Coyle
Tags: UI, Data Science, Product Design, UX, Design

Why Tables Matter

Data is becoming the raw material of the global economy. The pursuit of data drives the reinvention of antiquated industries. Energy, media, manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, retail, finance, and even the government are undergoing a digital transformation.

However, data is meaningless without the ability to visualize and act upon it. The companies that survive the next decade will not only have superior data; they will have a superior user experience.

Good user interface design is based on human goals and behavior. The user interface in-turn affects behavior, which drives further design decisions. In subtle and unconscious ways, user experience alters how humans make decisions. What is seen, where it is presented, and how interactions are afforded, influence actions. It is important we make design decisions that lead to a better world, one data table design at a time.
Senior Designer isn’t a dead end. New Year’s resolutions: 3 paths of development for experienced designers
By: Michał Ptaszyński
Tags: Product Owner, Product Design, Career, Design, UI Design

Interdisciplinarity is the key. Start expanding your hard skills. The analysis* of job offers clearly indicated that majority of companies seek persons who possess knowledge in a few related fields. It’s great that you’re an UI designer, but it’s even better if you’re able to do flow and wireframes (UI/UX Designer) or to encrypt what you have drawn (UI/Font).

And this is the way it looks once specific numbers are taken into account. Out of 30 job offers:

only 4 were aimed at UI Designer

were aimed at UI Designer and as many as 50% included skills from multiple fields in the requirements or as skills otherwise welcome

included skills from multiple fields in the requirements or as skills otherwise welcome in 5 cases UI Designers were expected to do research and front end development.

Comments:

*I analysed requirements candidates had to meet to be able to apply for the job rather than the name of the very position which has often been imprecise.

**I analysed 30 newest job offers from Dribbble Jobs.

Vu Hoang Anh, Avocode CEO, during the last Encounters Design conference (devoted to interaction between designers and developers) admitted that startups don’t have the liberty of employing specialists from very narrow fields because they cannot afford it.

If you know more skills than just creating pixels then you definitely have better position on your market. But always if you know UX/UI and you know marketing and stuff, you will be in a leadership position (…). If you in a small start-up, you can’t really have more people so you really should hire someone who has experience with UI, UX, coding and maybe even marketing. (…) This is why I think it’s important to know a lot of things. - Vu Hoang Anh

Persons with knowledge in a few related fields are much more valued. As a matter of fact, teams look like this in startups. The UI Designer position appears very rarely. The positions of UI/UX Designer or UI/Front End Developer appear much more often.

On the flipside, according to David Cancel, Drift CEO, the ideal way in which teams should work doesn’t involve distinguishing between different specializations in the field of design. Design is treated as a whole.

The market itself values interdisciplinarity much higher. According to the infographics prepared by Dashburst, persons with the minimum of 2 skills e.g. UI/UX Designers or UI/UX Developers, earned on average about 10 k more than UI (Visual) Designers annually.

Combining the knowledge in a few fields (including Design Thinking and Service Design) and having a flair for leading the field, you can have a go at being a Product Owner. Apart from technical skills, it’s very important to feel comfortable while initiating and participating in small talk. These seemingly trivial things have a significant influence on the bond you will create with a customer. And good relations can help you in case of a fuckup or two.

Ready to be the captain of the ship?
Why are we not a blogger?
Tags: Thoughts, Writing, Tips, Blog, Words

Why Are We Not A Blogger?

Inspiration to write blogs

Writing something is not easy but writing something is also not so difficult.

I have met many people who are very interested in sharing. Actually we all think of something and sometimes we take a pen and notebook and start writing. However, we don’t share it because we are shy.

Some of us are just interested in sharing with friends only. Some of us want to share a lot, but sometimes we just think that whom to share are thoughts with.

We all have different stories to share. We share sometimes with our friends, and we may also just write in our notebook, some of my friends just share with me, so I think we all are at the same platform but our sharing styles are different.

There are two types of personalities in this world either introvert or extrovert. I have a suggestion for both of them

Just write what is in your mind

Who thinks that we cannot write?

Just share what is going on in your mind and keep it free from your inner thoughts.

How can we blog? The major takeaways are:

#1. We should not be shy to project our thoughts.

#2. We all think of many things, we should immediately write it in a notebook, edit it and put it on our blog.

#3. It is better to forget that you are an introvert and immediately pen it down. You will not become an extrovert immediately, but you will get the courage to do something which you will enjoy.

#4. Sharing is caring, so openly share your thoughts.

#5. You should be happy always and not be stressed about writing, then you will manage.

To conclude: