Francesca

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information designer / researcher @ Metalab Berlin & Harvard, post-doc @ Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf / she – her 🐱
 data + journalism
Portfoliohttps://francescamorini.com/
Show threadFrancescaJun 3
... It seems like there is a lot of anxiety about the tool: how AI interprets this, how AI outputs that, the bias behind generative AI, etc. I am not arguing that these are not important and vital aspects of critical design research, but I wonder if and when we will be able to look elswhere again to focus on what we are designing and why.
FrancescaJun 3

"With our standards lowered, the shift inwards has also become more pronounced. Where industry peers were once chatting about what they were making and for whom, we now seem fixated solely on what we're building with." is such a good quote. I encountered this problem a lot in the last weeks especially in exchange with young researchers and students approaching design research for the first time...

https://robbowen.digital/wrote-about/looking-elsewhere/

Looking elsewhere - Robb Owen

Against the backdrop of mass layoffs, LLMs, site-builders and vibe coding what does it mean to conscientiously build for the web, and where do we go from here?

Robb Owen Digital
FrancescaJun 1
Scott Murray Jun 1

This new #stamp design by Chris Ware, celebrating #USPS’s 250th anniversary is beautifully done.

”250 Years of Delivering… is a pane of 20 stamps by cartoonist Chris Ware that invites the public to spot a fun array of familiar postal items and icons while following a mail carrier on her rounds through four seasons of the year.“

To be released in July. 📬🤓

https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2025/0428-usps-announces-stamps-celebrating-its-250th-anniversary.htm

FrancescaMay 31
UCLAB PotsdamApr 23

🔥 »I Want a Better Catastrophe« made it onto the short list of the Information is Beautiful Awards in the “Places, Spaces & Environment” category.

The flowchart by @jona combines audio narration with interactive elements as an invitation to join #AndrewBoyd on his narrative path and explore our predicament on your own: https://flowchart.bettercatastrophe.com

You can find all other short-listed entries here: https://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase?action=index&award=2024&controller=showcase&page=1&pcategory=short-list&type=awards

#IIBAwards #BetterCatastrophe #Flowchart #DataVis #InterfaceDesign #FHPotsdam

I Want a Better Catastrophe · Flowchart

A flowchart for navigating our climate predicament

FrancescaMay 30
John Alexis Guerra GómezMay 24
What a great summary history of JavaScript by deno https://deno.com/blog/history-of-javascript
A brief history of JavaScript | Deno

In 30 years, JavaScript went from being a little scripting language to one of the world's most popular. Here are key moments to show how it has evolved and where it is headed.

Deno
FrancescaMay 13
Anatoly Shashkin💾May 12
FrancescaMay 13
Dom HB9HLIMay 13
Important breaking news... A duck was flashed at 52 km/h in a 30 km/h zone by a fixed radar in Könitz near the federal city of Bern. (rts.ch) 😀
FrancescaMay 8
DatawrapperMay 8

Earn more income, pay more taxes. That might be a familiar rule in your country — but it's hardly universal. Our visualization developer Luc compares how progressive European income taxes really are 🪜

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/progressive-tax-rates-europe

Flat out unfair? A progressive take on taxes | Datawrapper Blog

Hi, this is Luc, working in the visualization team. If you like visualizing data …

Datawrapper
Show threadFrancescaMay 7
It is really not there yet, but I plan to add the headlines for shared articles and a ranking of meta-keywords on the right. The idea is to let the reader browse through the different countries and discover potential patterns in how couples of countries are discussed.
FrancescaMay 7
A very early UI draft: experimenting with Venn diagrams to explore how countries are discussed in relation to each other across Zeit and the New York Times. Basically, I am showing how many articles are tagged using the names of both countries and how many other meta-keywords they have in common across 1 year of news coverage from the two newspapers. 🙃 #wipwednesday
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Anatoly Shashkin💾May 12
Show threadWilliamMay 12
@dosnostalgic I chuckled.
Show threadKen McLeodMay 12
@dosnostalgic I spent far too long trying to understand the significance of the two red triangles and what was special about the corner they were both pointing at. Then I realized: it's not two triangles, but one bow. Groan.
Show threadRand al'Thor 🏳‍🌈 May 12
@_the_cloud @dosnostalgic Oh! Now I get it.
Show threadDesertFOXMay 12
@dosnostalgic Ok, this took me a few seconds. LOL
Show threadjordanMay 12

@dosnostalgic showed this to my wife and she rolled her eyes  

truly the hallmark of a great joke

Show threadbstowMay 12
@dosnostalgic Cool kids all used this:
Show threadmirabilosMay 13
@bstow @dosnostalgic and, incidentally, it’s "MS-DOS" and "DR DOS" (or DOSplus), but not "DR-DOS" or, worse, "Dr. DOS"…
Show threadsimonbpMay 13
@mirabilos @bstow @dosnostalgic Yeah... But literally everyone at the time that I remember pronouncing it called it "Doctor Doss", and I think some of the later marketing leaned into that.
Show threadtetcheyMay 13
@dosnostalgic This is one of the funniest things I have ever seen. Made my day. Thank you!
Show threadgibwarMay 13
@dosnostalgic A++ shitpost. It made me laugh
Show threadGarrett WollmanMay 13

@dosnostalgic When I was using PC-DOS it was just

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Show threadmirabilosMay 13

@dosnostalgic there’s so much wrong with this… aaaaah

A> even

Show threadistoffMay 13
@dosnostalgic took me a while. nice!
Show threadFrancisco EscobedoMay 13
@dosnostalgic The existence of DOS and MS DOS implies the existence of JR DOS.
Show threadeswillwalkerMay 13
@FranciscoEscobedo @dosnostalgic With your comment, I finally got the joke. I don't think of bows as feminine. I think of them as bow ties rather than long ties.
Show threadFrancisco EscobedoMay 14
@ELS @dosnostalgic A bow tie is a beautiful tie, indeed.
Show threadCommodore1351May 28

@FranciscoEscobedo @ELS @dosnostalgic Oh, in my eyes this is not a bow. It's a headdress. You could have made the exact same joke with Pac-Man. Except Ms. Pac-Man and Jr. Pac-Man really do exist.

Edit: Now I see this was already mentioned in other replies.

But to make my point a bit more clear: How do you distinguish Ms. Pac-Man from Pac-Man when only low resolution graphics is available? It's the headdress.

Show threadChris Silverman 🌻May 13
@FranciscoEscobedo @dosnostalgic There was, in fact, a MR-DOS, from Apple no less—or almost was, until Microsoft caught wind of this and told them to change it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/ROSE
A/ROSE - Wikipedia

Show threadChristopher E. StithMay 14
@FranciscoEscobedo @dosnostalgic or would that be DOS Jr.?
Show threadFrancisco EscobedoMay 14
@cestith @dosnostalgic It was mostly a Pac-Man reference, but yes 😊
Show threadChristopher E. StithMay 14

@FranciscoEscobedo @dosnostalgic oh, right. The arcade and console game was Jr. Pac-Man and only the special extra game in Pac-Man 2 on Genesis was labeled "Pac-Jr.".

The LCD handheld was "Pac-Junior" spelled out.

The character was known variously as Jr. Pac-Man, Pac-Man Jr., Pac-Jr., Pac-Junior, and P.J. across the various games, comics, cartoons, and merchandise.

Show threadFrost, glow wolf 🐺May 13
@dosnostalgic Mrrrcrosoft, with their brand new MRS DOS.
Show thread🎀 DEVilonger 📟May 13
@dosnostalgic @zkat take my boost.
Show threadMatthias May 13
@dosnostalgic It took me an embarrassing long time to notice the red things and stop looking for differences in the prompt. (Font) 🤷🏻‍♂️
Show threadPierreMay 13
@dosnostalgic ProDos
Show threadMichael / Chgowiz 🎲🎲May 13
@dosnostalgic waaka-waaka-waaka
Show threadAnatoly Shashkin💾May 13
@chgowiz
Show threadMichael / Chgowiz 🎲🎲May 13
@dosnostalgic Different waaka-waaka-waaka ;)
Show threadJeff NewmanMay 13
@dosnostalgic @rmondello this brought me so much joy. Thank you
Show thread🐜May 13
@dosnostalgic IBM too.
Show threadNikku4211May 14
@dosnostalgic Is there an MX DOS?