Lucian Marin

Personal blog

October 17, 2020

Apple iPhone Mini

As an owner of Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact, I see the iPhone 12 mini a step in the right direction.

May 12, 2016

Gridless

There’s a simpler method to create amazing layouts with invisible grids.

March 13, 2016

The future of the future

The future happens when you take radical decisions. When you say stop and start over. When you say time to move on. When you say you need a change. When you say you want different things. When you want a different job.

August 12, 2015

Simple, direct and honest

Sometimes we lack motivation and sometimes we look up for it. Motivation is a process of knowing yourself better. If I have to pick three words that mean everything to me, I’ll pick the ones that will motivate me most.

January 1, 2015

Sony Z Camera

I always dreamed up to have the perfect camera. But the perfect camera was never made. iPhone 4S had the build quality that I want from a camera, but it was lacking picture quality — it was just a phone after all.

September 24, 2014

Abuser experience

Abuser Experience (AX) is related to people who abuse a product and in return they want the product to do all kinds of things, things that the product wasn’t designed or built for. When you design a product you should ask the question: is this feature for a nonuser, an user or an abuser?

September 21, 2014

Nonuser experience

Not all the people are users. Designers are always focused only on those who are using the products, but they are missing a lot more by ignoring people who aren’t using the products. There is a clear distinction between user experience (UX) and nonuser experience (NX).

May 24, 2014

Building a social network

In a world where nothing is taken for granted, where nothing is given for granted, we have to stand on our own, to make a stand, to give our dreams some perspective, some depth.

April 26, 2014

JSON without curly braces

I find creating and reading JSON files insanely hard and complex. This is why I want to create a format that’s simple to understand, manage and write by humans. It’s backward compatible with JSON. As you can see I was inspired by Sass and Python. You can call this object notation format: LMON (light machine object notation), PYON, JSON lite or you can come up with a better name.

April 1, 2014

Black and white

Designers are getting tired of “flat design” trend. What’s next? I would say black and white because “flat” became a colour mess.