“[I]f your users don’t feel comfortable using your product, even if it’s due to small details, they quickly leave you for a more cosy place.” The Linear team views settings as a necessary part of user retention; settings allow users to feel “more at home,” and a comfortable user is unlikely to switch to your competitor. For example, Linear’s Mac app has a setting to hide the mouse cursor while hovering over a link, because seeing a cursor may feel “weird” to native Mac OS users. Read full article here
Science
‘Ghostly’ neutrinos provide new path to study protons
In groundbreaking research, an international collaboration of scientists from the University of Rochester have used a beam of neutrinos to measure the size and shape of the protons that make up the nuclei of atoms. This feat, once thought impossible, provides scientists with a new way of looking at the small components of an atom’s nucleus and opens up a wealth of new information about the structure of an atom’s nucleus and the dynamics of the forces that affect neutrino interactions. The researchers solved the challenge of harnessing neutrinos in large numbers by using a neutrino detector containing a target of both hydrogen and carbon atoms, and over nine years of data collection at Fermilab’s accelerator. Read full article here
Merv
March 25, 2023
