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GR/DT: An interaction designer’s navigation of this shared life we all live along with the wonderful world of wonder it provides. Using a design lens observe, here are my attempts to apply systems & design thinking. Follow @meltedlaughter . One half of the Energy Men. Talking about everything from data ethics to speculative futures. UX Interaction Design and all things digital product too. Remember, Get rich or design trying.
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Jun 29, 2022 • 1h 27min
Ep. 5 TikTok and "Eye Sight Glue Magnets"
The Danger of TikTok and its infinity scroll video stream
Plus +
The GameCube controller interface
UI/UX in relation to 'medium as the message'
Portrait orientation changes video content
Bio-Mechanical aspects of how we process stimuli
Ergonomics of Phones
Data Harvesting + Data Ethics
Social Media as a reflection of societies
Small Tech Solutions need to graduate to Big World Problems
Freemium Model is nearing end
Charging for our data
Our Free time is a luxury. Should we spend it in our phones?
Social Engineering
Metaverse needs tools of interaction
Remix and Remake Creative Culture
How High visual stimulus interferes with our natural breathing
Music by scmhOOOg with permission of the use of 'Canto' and 'Orb'
Voice of J. Robert Oppenheimer from 'The Decision to drop the bomb. (1965)'
Show Created and Voiced by meltedlaughter
(90 mins approx)

May 6, 2022 • 1h 19min
Ep. 4 Elon Musk & Twitter Notions & AI ramble
Some motivations perhaps for the Elon Musk Twitter Move.

Mar 30, 2022 • 47min
Ep. 3 : Apple and the current state of affairs (From 2021)
Some Summary Notes;
Apple's Value Offering
Aural + Oral User Experiences with Siri etc. and developing mental models
Apple Music is very weak vs Spotify for now
Software & Hardware - Vertical Stack Integration
Apple lets others cultivate the soil, then they plant their trees
While letting others cultivate, Apple maybe missed a couple of big markets (TV and Cars as example)
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May 17, 2021 • 47min
Ep. 2 : GameStop Won't Stop (Part 1)
The rise of the retail trader. Here was a off the cuff response to what was happening with GameStop back in earlier in the year of 2021. I take a limited understanding of how I viewed the market dynamics occurring at the time. Some of the understanding about how stocks work and what certain companies did or didn't do because of regulations are not perfectly accurate, and in coming episodes I will amend that, however this is a recording that had originally meant to air at the time as contextual commentary. It is perhaps the start of my fascination with the design and order of financial markets and products.
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May 15, 2021 • 17min
Viewpoint: Tinder Hooks up with UBER
A shorter piece of content where I make passing commentary on events in tech, society, product and news in general. This is a few weeks old but it was my response to news of Tinder baking in a direct order UBER feature into the Tinder App for post date.
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May 14, 2021 • 1h 3min
Ep 1. Smart Contracts and the Future of Money (Part 1 of many not in order)
Hello folks, this is quite the luxuries sprawl of conversation and opinion from myself about the current craze of digital monies, I talk about lots of stuffs but here are some example beneath of topics touched upon;
Smart Contracts
Programmable money
NFTs
Stocks are already digital assets
Indexing Data
Energy Tokens and Tesla
Data Origins and Quality of Source
Building the Next Web
Straight to Source : Us as Market Makers
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https://meltedlaughter.substack.com (Work In Progress)
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May 8, 2021 • 4min
Episode (0) Teaser Trying Out the Audio Recording Tool Descript
Just a small 3 min clip folks. Trying out Descript and a little taster of its 'OverDub' Feature. More Coming Soon.
Check out the full transcription here;
Full Transcription of the Audio
(Still Little Messy)
GR/DT

May 8, 2021 • 19min
Episode (-1) (Beta... Alpha... demo podcast from 2017) Young and Naive Designer on interfaces.
These are some segments of audio I recorded back in 2017 when Anchor was new and hip to the hop. I'm unsure why I never pushed on in making audio thoughts, but I have a series of word vomits building now recently (2021). So my first few episodes will be rough. This will stand as a reminder of where I came from and how we are progressing. This is just me talking about VR interfaces as extension of memory and also some ideas for a balance coach app interface. Get Rich or Design Trying
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