Keyana Sapp is the writer behind it: https://www.worseonpurpose.com/authors/keyana-sapp

This explains why NFL RedZone exists.

Fun comparison, a typical Formula 1 Grand Prix clocks in at ~1.5 hours. Live race broadcasts (e.g. Sky Sports F1) will typically show the entire race with no commercial breaks or interruptions. Same goes for MotoGP (e.g. TNT Sports), where a sprint race (~10-12 laps) takes just 25 minutes, not including post race podium and interviews.

English Premier League game durations come in at just under 2-hours with a full hour of athletic action, the remaining 50% occupied by a 15-minutes halftime, substitutions, free kicks, and a mere 10-minutes of commercial interruptions.

> "Never before has there been a technology like the smartphone. Where previous entertainment technologies like cinema or television were intended to capture their audience’s attention for a period, the smartphone demands your entire life. Phones are designed to be hyper-addictive, hooking users on a diet of pointless notifications, inane short-form videos and social media rage bait."

> "The average person now spends seven hours a day staring at a screen. For Gen Z the figure is nine hours. A recent article in The Times found that on average modern students are destined to spend 25 years of their waking lives scrolling on screens."

In Toronto, for example, the average selling price for a home has almost doubled in the last 10 years from ~$570,000 in 2014 to ~$1.1 million dollars in 2024; the average monthly rent ~$1,100 in 2014, now ~$2,300/mo. in 2024.

Is it any wonder this has created a housing affordability crisis forcing younger adults to delay many of the so-called traditional markers of adulthood mentioned in the piece?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34998711

Points: 66

# Comments: 57

Curious, was the inspiration for the Labelf AI logo the Wall-E animated movie character Eva?

Some UX design feedback:

1. The sort filter (sort by "new" and "hot") is bewildering.

2. The search iconography gets lost on the teal coloured background. I would suggest more visual contrast is needed. (make the search icon consistent with the camera icon on the home screen)

3. Branding: the script font used for the app icon logo ('OS' monogram) is different from the full logo wordmark ('One Set') -is that intentional?

4.Inconsistent menu colour conventions: the header background is teal (#00838f) on which a pale teal colour (#8ac6cc) is used to denote inactive items and a pale white (#edf6f7) is used to denote an active menu selection. The 'Category / Muscle group' toggle uses the inverse: teal (#00838f, the same colour as the header bg) to denote the active selection and grey (#757575) to denote the inactive selection. May I suggest consider using the darker teal colour that appears on the landing screen ("Welcome to OneSet..." message) for this toggle and follow the colour cues used in the top nav (i.e. #edf6f7 = active, #8ac6cc = inactive)

5. Menu orientation: considering the app only appears to work in portrait mode the horizontal menu forces users to do a lot swiping back and forth (as I found myself doing). May I suggest get rid of 'Home' and replace with an arrow icon; represent 'Profile' with a gear or avatar silhouette icon or relocate to the 'more' menu (the vertical "..." icon) that appears next to the camera icon when you tap 'Profile'.

6. Perhaps more on the subjective front, I would reconsider the rainbow of colours used for the Category and Muscle group buttons.

Dribbble (the other design resource listed) I understand was co-founded by designer Dan Cederholm, but oddly if you visit his current Wikipedia page there's no mention of his involvement with Dribbble -only on his SimpleBits bio page: http://simplebits.com/about/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7651828

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

This sounds excessive.

Your company must have unlimited resources or incredible cash flow to be able to invest an entire day on each candidate and then pull team members off "paying" tasks and projects to prepare mock programming exercises. If you're talking junior or intermediate roles, this might work. But good luck getting any senior developer with decent experience and programming chops to spend 5 hours of their day on so-called "challenges" unless you're one of the Googles or Facebooks of the world.