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Smoother Data Science through Ergonomic Aesthetics
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Anyone who says aesthetics don’t impact work is deceiving themselves.
Look at Apple: They built a dominant tech empire by applying artistic minimalism to every aspect of their products, from physical design to user experience.
What word do we associate with iProducts? “Smooth”.
Curved edges: I can’t find a single sharp-cornered shape anywhere on the MacBook I’m writing this on.
Clouded texture: Not blazing shiny like polished lacquer. Faded yet clean.
The result of this is an experience I’d call “sleek”. The software defaults to flowing transitions rather than jarring jumps. Much effort is placed into ‘unifying’ cloud systems for storage and account-based sharing of content across devices.
Plenty of tech people use Mac environments instead of Windows, although there’s no shortage of arguments for why a Windows build is more powerful, customizable, price-efficient, etc. Why?
Ergonomics. If your tools make work feel better, you’ll do more work.
Jupyter
This is the reason I do most of my data science work in Jupyter. Notebooks allow you to write and run code in separate…
