Daniel Erwin

UX Designer
California, USA

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  • "My wife came back with this, and while I was initially impressed at the beautifully molded clear outer lid, and yes it achieves all the stated functionality, it leaves me wondering: why not go the extra step and include a vacuum pump? No not a clunky, expensive, complex electric one - a simple, hand-pump like the wine vacuum pump I use whenever I don't finish a bottle of wine. Furthermore, why can't I buy a valve like that which I can just drill into any of my plastic or metal containers that I want to be vacuum sealed?"
    on: The Air-Evacuating Airscape Coffee Canister
  • "So I have a kaweco sport fountain pen, and I'm really thrilled it has held up for 2 or 3 years now, rolling around in my pocket while I'm working, walking, on the playground with my kid, etc. I'm a bit disappointed the contact between the threads on the shaft and the inside of the cap is made of plastic - it doesn't fit securely, and I have to be careful to not turn it too much. Other than that, it's as solid as it looks."
    on: Pens and Pencils with Patina? Kaweco's Tough Offerings
  • "You want microplastics in everything you chop, every time you leave even the tiniest cut mark? Because this is how you infuse your gut with microplastics. Not to mention the credit card I thought I was saving the environment from by using it to scrape my cast iron - now I'm just grinding it up into toxic dust, instead of waiting for that to happen in a million years when a river runs through the dump. "
    on: DIY Plastic Recycling: Brothers Turn Plastic Bottle Caps Into Cutting Boards
  • "Why is this any different from glass-fiber-reinforced parts? I get it that "fiberglass" is often unstructured, but it can be structured - for a few months, I worked for a tiny outfit making carbon fiber airplane parts by hand (back in Dallas in the early aughts), and we sometimes used glass fiber that looked just like those carbon fiber sheets, except clear/white. Even if non-directional, seems like all the resin-filling and forming steps would be the same as as a fiberglass/resin composite. What am I missing?"
    on: Nissan Figures Out How to More Affordably Mass Produce Carbon Fiber Parts
  • "Saw way more badass looking tires for rolling on snow and ice on reddit and had to come back to share it https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/lpv5ob/snow_tyre_naah/ - maybe somebody could find a 1 meter diameter rotary burr and put it on the back of a motorcycle, next?"
    on: Maniac Replaces His Bicycle Wheels With Sawmill Blades for Frozen Lake Riding
  • "Ok but what cheap utility wall-hooks did you find? Am I the only one who can't stand paying $14 to home depot for a piece of bent steel with a couple holes in it? Out on a farm is not the only place you want to hang a vast array of stuff on the wall - in fact I'd say the space constraints of city living make it equally compelling!"
    on: Sweet Designs for Cast-Iron Wall Hooks
  • "um how about a write-up of reverse-vending machines - that I only just heard of for the first time. And ideally their whole supply chain - do they also use the same trucks to bring stuff to/from the same factories? Where does the actual recycling happen?"
    on: California Passes Bill SB 372, to Make Beverage Manufacturers & Distributors Responsible for Recycling
  • "Bookshelf with bungees would be pretty useful when you've got a 1.5-2 year old running around pulling everything off of shelves. I ended up wrapping several bookshelves with a single strand of monofilament for this reason. But the bungee thing is way too permanent for this usecase. "
    on: The Weekly Design Roast, #20
  • "This maximal viable product sounds like an interesting concept, but I've gotta say if I were a resident of Redding, I think I'd be a lot less likely to give a designer a long leash after this experience. If you're aiming to expand the conversation about what design can and should be, I think it might be better to find examples that nail their objectives with core users, and maybe scoop up an extra usecase or two without breaking the bank. In this case, I'm thinking that both local dogs and taxpayers are a lot closer to the core users than sightseers who'll likely never visit again.  But hey even a design critique doesn't have to be a masterpiece on the first iteration - why not come back to us with an exploration of the important and real tension between making this park (and the city and region more generally) into a tourist destination, vs the need to have simple, functional infrastructure, and how that reflects and refracts thinking and designing like an engineer vs. like a starchitecht (e.g. see Frank Lloyd Wright's leaky and expensive to maintain buildings). "
    on: The Maximum Viable Product
  • "Amazing. Can't wait to see glass with a honeycomb structure interior, which will be much lighter. Then cover it with silicone stripes/dimples at strategic points to deal with breaking too easily, and you've got virtually a new material."
    on: ETH Researchers Found a Way to 3D-Print Complex Glass Objects With a New Take on Stereolithography
  • "So how does this compare to sunlight? My guess is that most viruses and bacteria are toast in direct sunlight for 10 minutes."
    on: The Benefits and Drawbacks of Disinfecting Surfaces and Killing COVID-19 with UV Lights
  • "Why wasn't this even mentioned on the front pages that I read religiously? Even Ars Technica didn't mention it. "
    on: The Complete Translated Text of China's Incredible Single-Use Plastics Ban
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