Chronicle / 31 May
Hope you are enjoying the sunshine 
. It’s been a quick 3 years since we first started The Chronicle – how time flies! 
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Celeste Barber
Celeste Barber uses her profile to highlight the crazy, unrealistic celebrity Instagram accounts with hilarious parody posts of her own. She’s got a flipload of coverage as a result.
Floating Pizzeria anyone?
Yes please! Cloud 9 is a floating pizzeria located in the picturesque waters of Fiji. You can even snorkel while your Pizza capricciosa is being prepped!
What are people working on in coffee shops?
These guys interrupted everyone working away in a Venice, California coffee shop (how annoying!) to ask them what they are doing – some interesting results though.
Problem Solving Creatively
Interesting read that uses the story of the Trojan Horse as an analogy; Odysseus was able to transform the 10-year-old problem of overpowering the Trojans into a problem of deceiving them, which opened up a whole new set of ready-made solutions that he was already master
of.
Brutalist Websites
We’re down with this new grimy way of presenting websites: “In its ruggedness and lack of concern to look comfortable or easy, Brutalism can be seen as a reaction by a younger generation to the lightness, optimism, and frivolity of today’s webdesign”
1990’s Japanese video & today’s UX Design
What Chrono Trigger, Super Mario RPG and Final Fantasy III can teach us today about UX design.
