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Over 30 million blood pressure measures have been measured in Simple. Big milestone. One of our designers @jamiecarter7 wrote about it.
Daniel Burka
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Daniel Burka
@dburka
💼 Dir. of design at ResolvetoSaveLives.org
❤️ Lead Simple.org
🪙 Seed investor
😷 Started Healthicons.org
🎨 Prev. design partner at GV.com
- Do people outside of tech know how realistic "Knives Out: Glass Onion" and the show "Silicon Valley" really are? They feel like 90+% reality to me with just a sprinkling of exaggeration.
- Cole Alma Burka arrived just in time for Father's Day. She and her mom are doing great. ❤️❤️❤️
- Hot take: I've never used a design grid in my entire career. Grids, schmids.
- If only there was a way to combine messenger apps into one. Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram, Instagram, Twitter DMs, Messenger, SMS, iMessage, Slack, Teams... it's gotten ridiculous.
- The modern use of CSS where you basically inline your styles with specific class names like "padding-12px font-size-24px color-blue" still blows my mind. Is this how everyone does it now? I miss the days of abstracted classes like "sub-nav." Do I just need to embrace the new?
- Do designers of induction cookstops even cook? We just moved and this is even worse than our old flat.
- Do you (still) believe that design is a force for good in the world?
- I sort of love the recent trend of design portfolios created in Notion. 👀 Easy to scan ✒️ Writing is readable 🤯 Don't need to learn a new UI on every portfolio 🎨 Creativity loves constraints
- How much fun would it be to time travel back to 2000s and design websites at 800x600 in websafe colors and html/tables again?
- Most software designers put immense effort into software that doesn't really matter.What is broken in Software Design? Spill your guts.
- Many designers think their job ends in research, Figma, and hand-off. I’m reminded every week how hard it is to ship good software. Real artists ship... software that works.
- Big update to the Healthicons .org project. We now have over 1350 quality icons, free and open source, for anyone working on medical projects. Great work from our all-volunteer team. 💖
