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Peak Minimalism: The moment before you remove just one more thing from your design, which suddenly makes it feel cold and inhumane. A design that makes logical sense but is too reduced to feel good has crossed Peak Minimalism, because human communication relies on Redundancy. ia.net crossed Peak Minimalism when we removed the site navigation. We put it back. iA Writer crossed it when we removed all icons. We put them back. In spite of tons of involuntary UX redundancies, Windows 10 climbed the Mount Everest of minimalism. And like all minimalist peaks, it is not uncool.

Pleonasm: (cross-reference: Rhetorical) device. The use of more words than are necessary to convey meaning (e.g. each and every, null and void, see with one's eyes), for emphasis. In oral communication, pleonasms can help ensure that the listener fully understands the message. When used consciously, pleonasms underline that their intention is plain and simple, crystal clear, that what they are saying has to be fully understood beyond the shadow of a doubt. Pleonasms require strong writing skills. They should to be used sparingly and consciously—otherwise they are just a sign of a bored, superficial writer unaware of (cross-reference: clichés).

Post Meeting Group Meditation: Old Tibetan practice. Post Meeting Group Meditation refers to the practice of interpreting the small signs captured by the High Speed Camera during a meeting that may reveal a client’s conscious or subconscious wishes, fears or desires.

PowerPoint: A tar pit. A mental honeytrap. A voluntary prison in which the majority of the world’s population have done time, both as presenters or audience members. Escape is common but recapture is almost certain. PowerPoint makes us design more and add lots of text while actually saying less. The antidote to “Choose a template” is “Choose life”. If that option isn’t available, tell a story.

Print it: Previewing a wireframe in the browser.

Put it on Snapchat: “Put it on Snapchat” or “I’ll put it on Snapchat” is used to make fun of elderly (30+) tech people who are afraid of losing touch with the latest developments in Social Media, and pretend that they still know what is happening even though they already are clearly out of touch.