Innovation šŸƒ, SVGs , & interactive content experiences šŸ–¼ļøā€¦ Axioned Newsletter vJuly2021

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Bringing Recent News Closer to Home:

As active users of the products and platforms Big Tech aka GAFAM offers our team and clients, it’ll be interesting to watch how the conversation continues regarding the ā€œbreak-up of big techā€.

No doubt it’s a challenge for regulators to keep up with the pace of technology innovation, and I’m sure many of you facing similar ā€œkeeping-up with innovationā€ related challenges. (If you are, let’s talk.)

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Interactive content experiences: The NYTimes continues to create admirable interactive content experiences; creatively combining pictures, video, text, and other media/content formats. For example: ā€œThe climate crisis haunts Chicago’s futureā€. The effect you see here is supported by CSS, Javascript & video files; an effect we/Axioned have worked on mimicking.

Further insights into the NYTimes’ decoupled & modular architecture can be found here and here on the NYTimes ā€œOpenā€ blog.

SVGs: SVG stands for ā€œScalable Vector Graphicsā€. SVGs are often adopted over JPGs & PNGs for icons, logos, illustrations, etc. to support infinitely responsive, scalable and speedier web experiences. More on the benefits, here.

If you’re wanting to explore the ā€œhowā€, see here (authored recently by our COO Anurag Banerjee).

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Working, Together:

Certain Axionites & I recently met to talk about anger. Specifically, how do we choose to react to this emotion? ā€œIt is not about controlling your emotions, it is about controlling your reaction to your emotions.ā€ (Yung Pueblo)

We also talked about the fact that in most (if not all) situations someone doesn’t set out to anger us with malicious intent. ā€œEvery human will frustrate, anger, annoy, madden and disappoint us…and we will (without any malice) do the same to them.ā€ (Alain de Botton)

According to The Future Hunters, ā€œWe are entering ā€œThe Affectional Economyā€ propelled by the rapid rise of affective computing and machine-based emotional reasoning.ā€ It therefore seems appropriate (if not urgent) that we get to ā€œknow thyselfā€ (including our emotions) faster than the computers do ;-).

P.S. Please join me at the virtual/annual BCS SPA Software in Practice conference in September. I’ll be talking to the subject of: ā€œSupporting the scale and growth of diverse & remote technology teamsā€. Details, here.

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