#UX Degrees

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

I'm just going off of your posts, but is Sonine your favourite version of Sontails?

Hmmm

If I had to pick a favorite version, I guess I would say them. Their dynamic was the first Sontails related ship I admitted to myself I liked, and the first I found myself obsessed over (and dedicating so many waking hours to)

To be honest, although Sonine counts as a ship under the umbrella of Sontails, it's special enough to me and special enough a case personally that I kind of give it a degree of separation from Sontails. It's why you may see me say that my Sonic the Hedgehog (franchise) otp is Sonine and Sontails

For pretty much 99% of the Sontails dynamics and depictions across the sonic media, I lump them under the umbrella of "Sontails" as one of my otps. This one is a specific depiction of the two in the games and adjacent to that. Even though interpretations of their setting, personalities, etc vary, there are many threads between the pairing you can gather between the games, archie sonic, idw sonic, the ova, the sonic movies, etc. And while I can easily lump my ships between Sonic and the Prime Tails variants under that umbrella in my mind, my obsession with Sontails as an otp largely extends to this best friend relationship between them as it persists across the Sonic media.

Sonine on the other hand, while the two did consider each other best friends, has a different start to their relationship, a bit of a different dynamic, and a different appeal to me.

While with Sontails I'm sticking my grabby hands into sonic comics and tv shows and games and movies for many crumbs of this unbreakable bond, with Sonine I am looking into their specific relationship and dynamic (and the ways in which they compare, contrast, and relate to Sontails)

So to conclude, my answer is both yes and no. Yes, if I had to say so, Sonine is technically my favorite version of Sontails. But under the Sontails shipping umbrella (of ships I actually tag as sontails in my posts/reblogs), it's much harder to pick a favorite, since there are many good moments across the media

Thanks for the ask!!😊💖

[roseband]

ppl complaining about the new legally blonde prequel coming out didn't seem to get the movie cause elle WAS interesting and smart from the get go????

"i have a 4.0...." "but in fashion merchandising"

girlie's got a business related degree from the beginning, even if it's a "frivolous" thing

i think u rlly missed the main idea?

[shoyslayer]

not only the fact that making the user interface resemble twitter more is a terrible idea because twitter is a dying website with an actively hostile user experience

why would you move the post button down to the bottom left. why would you make the button to make posts one of the hardest things to reach....... on the blogging website. the website you make posts in.

[deadpoolsmom]

WHERE’S MY FUCKING BLOG

[master-thief-gray-shadow]

Coming to the mortifying realization that my brother, who is about to graduate college with a compsci degree, does not know how to play RPG video games and doesn't understand the d20 system

[emotargaryen]

actually now that i think about it, information architecture being my favorite like subset of graphic design is like the most autistic thing i could have picked. like yeah i love organizing data and focusing on the structure of things to make sure everything flows in a logical way

[sparkznkpop]

Come home the kids (me and my ocs) miss you :(

Sorry honey, I’m still out searching for that golden milk carton called Inspiration. But tell the kids I love them and I love you too. I’ll be home soon I promise. BSHSHSN

1. Sorry for the late reply I have been busy preparing for going to school

2. I didnt mean to drop off the face of the earth HSNSJS

3. Okay, so I’ve been meaning, as I always, say want to work on stuff but I don’t know where to start HOWEVER, I think I’m making progress so who knows

4. My inspiration is like a light switch it comes on and off and comes and goes… right now it’s flickering lol

5. You guys can still message me and stuff I’ll just be reallyyyyyy slow to respond but I’m always occasionally looking through the tags and dash

[elevanetheirin]

Imposter Syndrome is now in full swing and LinkedIn isn't helping when all they're showing me are retail jobs 🤣

[virgyvandijk]

also tonight is the first time in literal months possibly over a year that i’ve used the tumblr app and they’ve made the ux SO BAD that idk how you guys are still here

[iseeyougohalfblind]

I’m going back to school!! And my gf might live with me for a month this summer ^__^ exciting things happening….

[weatherquest]

staff member who made the post in the screenshot i rbed before this is trying to say they're working on improving cpu performance and thats what theyre referencing, but could they really expect it not to be taken out of context (if thats really what its in regard to) considering how overwhelmingly negative the response to recent ui changes has been. like no ones happy about recent design changes and users are passing around 3rd party software to change how the site behaves, and then they make a joke about ui changes and how users respond to it? looks bad. also how does that not read as critical failure, when users are so upset about new changes that they have entire programs to revert them. i studied ui/ux as part of my design degree and theyre fucking up on so many basic principles it's insane

[yesloulou]

@staff

im sure someone with an actual UI/UX degree can explain this better than me but:

a. idk what this logo is doing in the middle. given the majority of the left hand side column is left-aligned i think that's what you should've done with the logo too b. this menu needs bigger font and larger spacings. when you have this much blank space below it looks unnecessarily crowded c. at this point you have a middle-aligned logo, left-aligned menu and right-aligned new post button. sure you know that's bad... it's like they were designed by three different teams at three diff companies.... d. there's no reason to leave this big square of dead space to the left of the discovery menu esp since we're expected to scroll through the discovery menu that's already too big to fit into the same screen? e. the margins and paddings here look very odd. the "Manage..." on top right has a 0px margin between itself and the lil grey line. the new post menu on bottom right has about 15px, everything on the right hand side has about 8px. im pretty sure if your margins are consistent it'd look better f. also the "Following | For you | Your tags etc etc" received the biggest font in this whole layout but shouldn't the visual focus be put on the actual content itself?

[eliotlime]

End of September Update

Just as a heads up, I'll be closing my commissions after the first week of October (06/10/2024) just so I can focus on other projects! If you'd like to order a bug from me or get any of my other regular commissions now's a good time to do so!

(Bugstyle | Regular Comms)

I made a really brief post on twitter about what I'm up to but since tumblr supports more text I'll just go into more depth on what projects I'm working on at the moment and general life updates!

I used to write blog posts on wordpress for school and it's just hilarious that I stopped doing that considering it feels like I was born to blog!

In general, I've been trying to crawl out of this very odd mood swing-y state I've been in for the past year. I've been semi-public about it but I graduated with a degree in animation same time last year and have sort of been recovering from the absolute burn out of that as well as watching the animation industry essentially collapse just as I left college.

I'm hoping to get into UI/UX design this coming October and try to piece what little control I have of my life back together. I don't really know what I'm doing to be honest and it feels like I'm just pawing in the dark with a lot of this stuff.

In lighter news I've been trying to get into something I've always wanted to for years which is comics! I'm not sure how much I can speak about it at the moment but I just got into an anthology which is very exciting.

I applied to shortbox last year but didn't get in :( but fingers crossed I'll get in next year! On a related note I've made a Cara profile which I'm using as a comics portfolio and archive.

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Those of you who've been following me for years know that I've had a webcomic project called, Happenstance (which I've restarted endlessly for about 10 years at this point). While I don't really have a concrete update of that for you guys I will say that the story is more or less fixed and whatever version of it I have now is most likely the version I'll proceed with in the future.

I did try to get the ball rolling with this at the start of the year with a pilot comic but it made me so miserable to work on it I abandoned it and started making an unrelated zine instead haha

I do have plans on finishing this eventually and it'll be up on my itch.io and gumroad like everything else!

Speaking of the zine, I'd just like to thank everyone who purchased Cute Thing! I think for my first independent book project it did pretty well! It was incredibly embarrassing and nerve wrecking to promote it but I'm glad I did it.

I don't know why there's an 18+ warning on this considering this zine is pretty tame.

I guess it also helped that that stupid ass diary comic i made blew up at the same time so I got to shill my wares in relation to it. Even though I think it gave me some kind of psychological damage but every time i gain minor internet fame i shrink back into my shell anyway, this is just the first time i really felt so much.. vitriol from randos lol.

It's just hilarious it overlapped with whatever guilty gear obsession I had at the time as well. Thank you to everyone who stuck around and uh.. sorry! I walk wherever the wind takes me and it's frequently towards my own characters.

But! Speaking of Guilty Gear, I am working on an Abacelsus zine I briefly talked about on twitter a couple months back. The title is sort of pending at the moment and while I did say it might be free as a digital download, I'm probably going to charge a couple of dollars because of how much effort I'm putting into this.

On the plus side that means I'll probably be putting more effort into it! I'm aiming for 24 interior pages of stuff and hoping to release a digital version of it by Halloween 2024!

I'm trying to work on more prints and stickers for conventions as well and I never posted about my convention escapades here all too much but you can check out this instagram post for what I had up the last time I boothed!

That's kind of all for the stuff I'd like to get done within this year but other projects that I'd like to aim to get done by 2025 is a continuation of my Cute Thing zine that I'm aiming to collate by Valentines Day, hehe how romantic.

There's nothing terribly concrete for that at the moment but I do know I want it to have more pages than Cute Thing. It's called My Boy and yes it's named after another Car Seat Headrest song.

I've got a lot of irons in the fire and another iron is that I'm also planning a 4-panel comic series for my band characters that I've posted some pilots about before!

Pretty messy planning but most of my long form stuff looks like this.

A 4-panel comic series is just less intimidating than a fully coloured webcomic series (Happenstance) that I know will be finished decades later. I've also seen a lot of webcomic artists I've beloved just.. abandon their years long project and it's kind of scary to me that will definitely happen to me!!!

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The long and short of it is that I've got a lot of projects and a majority of it is not making me any money. I'm extremely lucky to be surrounded by people that support my work but it gets hard to just do all of this by yourself with no guarantee that it'll go anywhere.

Patreon's a beast I've tried to tackle but it's kind of an ass of a website to use so I'll probably try to use ko-fi a bit more. I've kind of never really liked the subscription model and really do prefer to launch curated PDFs of my work every few months, but again I'm really just clawing at the dark and grasping at anything I can.

Let's wrap up this long post by mentioning that I might want to give streaming a shot! I used to stream a little when I was a teenager but I'd like to give it another go!

I don't think I'm going to have a dedicated persona or vtuber avatar but a small little png-tuber would be frankly hilarious. Maybe something casual to start of with, it gets pretty lonely spending everyday working on images alone.

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Thank you for reading! It's an extremely long post to all but say that I'm scared but working on projects still! If you'd like to support me, here's my ko-fi page and while I'm working on getting more stuff on there here's my itchi.io & gumroad as well.

As I mentioned before I'm closing my commissions on the 6th of October to work on my Abacelsus zine so if you'd like to get a bug or any of my regular style commissions now's a good time to do so!

(Bugstyle | Regular Comms)

I'm hoping to make more update posts like these in the future and not psyche myself out every time because they're really good for me to collect my incredibly jumbled thoughts. Thanks again to everyone who's followed, supported or even just looked at my stuff it really means the world.

If you have any questions or just generally want to talk to me about my characters, my DMs and askbox is always open! Any professional enquires can be shot towards me email as well: eliotlime@gmail.com

XOXO, Stay weird!

-Eliot :)

[404icy]

hi! icy here! ♡

i am currently studying computer engineering as my college major. i have great interest with the intersection between design and engineering.

in my free time, i love to learn (just learning in general). some of my favorite hobbies are ballet, reading books and playing video games. i also love being creative... i also really like anything related to astronomy and self-improvement.

academic interests: engineering, computer engineering, ux/ui design, human computer interaction, design, ai, robotics, astrophysics i have degrees in history (focus is on american immigrant history), visual communication design (graphic design) and liberal arts.

i don't think i'll ever stop learning.

i hope that sharing my journey would help and inspire someone out there. ♡

icy's (big sis advice portion): i know it may get overwhelming sometimes but here is a reminder that you are right in the middle of something you used to pray for... be kind to yourself and trust the process...

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gif source: new game! ahagon umiko programming (my fave character from the series btw)

[shinelikethunder]

i just. their unintuitive whitespace replacement for reblog permalinks? isn't. even. a real. link.

because the way to REALLY make it intuitive is to go out of your way to avoid the built-in browser feature that shows you where a link goes when you hover over it!

as well as the ones that let you copy the URL or open it in a new tab. because haha who'd ever want to use THOSE to follow the various parts of a branching conversation?

i'm also still not over how fucking obviously their "intuitive" redesign is built solely for desktop users and actively thwarts both discovery (you can't fucking see the header color change if you don't have a mouse to hover over it!) and use (THERE IS NO HEADER REAL ESTATE TO TAP ON if anyone has a long username or checkmarks) on mobile

this is like five first-degree UX felonies in a trenchcoat, at least one of which is going to turn a popular user-funded revenue stream into a scarlet letter of assholery if they don't fix it. the same one that got popular as a way to dunk on twitter for doing exactly that!

[cosmicfunnies]

Navigating Through Space: Personal and Cosmic Updates

Hello my Stellar Supporters,

I hope this message finds you well, or at least, stargazing into the heavens with hope and curiosity. It's been a while since we last touched base, and I want to address this prolonged silence.

Over the last few months, my journey has taken a detour through a darker part of the cosmos. I've been grappling with depression, which has created a cloud of cosmic dust that's made it difficult to see the stars, let alone draw them. My mental health has always been a nebulous territory, and the gravitational pull got a bit stronger after I was laid off in November 2022. This event was like a supernova explosion, adding more confusion and gloom to my personal galaxy.

However, just as the Universe never ceases its inexorable expansion, I've been taking steps towards recovery, navigating my way out of this nebula. It's been a slow, incremental journey, but I've decided to redirect this energy into a new mission: a return to the academic world.

Yes, you've read that right. I've embarked on a course to acquire my Bachelor of Arts degree in Graphic Design and Media Arts, with a specific focus on Web Design. This decision, which has the weight of a pulsar, came from a profound realization: to reignite my passion for exploring and creating, I needed a new kind of star map, one drawn from the insights and challenges of academic pursuit.

So, what does this mean for our beloved cosmic ship, Cosmic Funnies?

Our shared adventure into the realm of humor and cosmic wonders is evolving! Like a nebula birthing a star, Cosmic Funnies is transforming into an exciting new entity: an educational platform dedicated to space and the wonders it holds.

But don't worry! Just like dark matter binds galaxies together, humor and fun will still be the heart of Cosmic Funnies. Our beloved webcomics will be more integrated and central than ever as a part of the educational content. This decision, an outcome of my UI UX Design class, aims to combine learning and laughter in the best possible way.

In this new universe of Cosmic Funnies, students, educators, and space enthusiasts can gather to explore, laugh, and learn. Together, we will make learning about space a truly immersive and enjoyable experience.

For all you cosmic shoppers, our online store will continue to operate but will set up its own celestial body, separate from the main site. The primary mission of Cosmic Funnies will always be to educate, inspire, and bring a smile to your face with the beauty and mystery of our universe.

Navigating through uncharted galaxies can be intimidating. But armed with optimism and your support, I am excited about this new chapter of Cosmic Funnies. As we prepare for this new journey, I want to express my sincere gratitude for your unwavering support during this challenging time. Your patience and understanding have been like constellations guiding me through the dark.

Please keep your spacesuits ready and your minds open for the knowledge that is to come. Until then, remember to always look up, for the universe is full of Cosmic Funnies waiting to be discovered!

In the cosmos,

Jackie