The past decade has seen the rise of the Instagrammable food trend, where restaurants have altered menus to prioritize visual uniqueness—often at the expense of taste. In a competitive social media landscape, the question for restaurateurs has been how to stand out and generate audience engagement in the form of likes, comments, and shares.
Under the assumption that creating unique food items will help businesses stand out and garner more engagement on social media, the Instagrammable food trend has given birth to novelty items like unicorn lattes and poop cafés.

Food That Looks Great On Instagram

The average user spends over two hours a day on social media platforms, exposing themselves to hundreds of different posts in a single scrolling session.While rapidly processing content, the brain may instinctively feel more positively toward images that are more easily recognized as food. These positive feelings can then transfer to behaviours directed toward the post, thereby increasing the likelihood of the post receiving likes, comments, or shares.

The Power Of Social Media

Since social media platforms use rank-ordering algorithms to prioritize and boost content, figuring out which foods garner more social media engagement will help restaurants and food content creators determine how to better amplify the reach of their online content.Conventional social media wisdom suggests that people will engage with social media content they deem entertaining, where “entertaining” is synonymous with unique, distinct, and atypical. In a food context, it has been assumed that entertaining means food that looks more unique, distinct, and atypical.

Instragrammable Food

Since people feel better when they see foods that are easily recognizable as food, normal-looking food tends to get more likes. On the other hand, unique foods tend to result in lower social media engagement because they are harder to recognize and classify as food.Despite food <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-42012732">industry bloggers</a> and <a href="https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/instagram-trends-2022">social media trends</a> suggesting that people crave unique, eye-catching content, the most successful Instagrammable foods are the normal-looking ones that are more easily recognized as food.

Recognizing Normal, Edible Food

While social media forecasters may suggest that unique foods are a trend, this logic contradicts some principles of evolutionary psychology. Humans evolved to quickly visually recognize foods, not just for what is edible, but also for what is calorie-dense.Since finding and eating edible food was crucial for survival when humans were hunter-gatherers, we may be hardwired to feel intrinsically good when we simply see the food we know we can eat.

The Brain Is Evolutionarily Programmed To Recognize Food

The Instagrammable food trend has given birth to novelty items like unicorn lattes and poop cafes. But is this actually effective?


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Teamwork is dependent on trusting the other people to come through with their part without watching over their shoulder. Apple is great at figuring out how to divide things up into great teams, and all work on the same thing, touch bases regularly and bring the product together.

Teamwork is dependent on trust

Apple is a collaborative company. They are organised like a start-up. They meet for three hours once a week and talk about everything they're doing. They don't have committees. One person is in charge of each division.  There is an incredible amount of teamwork at the top of the company, which filters down to great teamwork throughout the company.

The key to Apple's success

If you wanna hire great people and have them stay working for you, you have to let them make a lot of decisions and you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win, otherwise good people don't stay.

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Overstating your abilities or hobbies may not be a deal-breaker for some employers, but it is less ethical, which might be a red flag. <ul><li>You can spot a faker by setting up an interview and assessing his or her purported abilities. When someone is put on the spot, it often becomes clear if they are telling the truth.</li><li>Online background checks and reference checks are also helpful.</li></ul>

How to spot a faker

Some job applicants are fudging key details on their resumes. A new survey shows that job applicants are now also lying about their hobbies and language abilities to find favour with hiring managers. 14% of Americans admitted to including hobbies or interests they don't have. Among the most common fake pastimes are volunteering or charity work, running or staying fit, yoga, photography, painting, art, playing an instrument. One in eight Americans lied about their fluency in a foreign language.

Overstating on a resume

Some lied about their language proficiencies while others fibbed about doing yoga or their ability to play a musical instrument.

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Persist too long in making choices without justifying them, and an entire creative effort might wander aimlessly. The results might be the sum of wishy-washy half decisions. Developing the judgment to avoid this pitfall centers on the refined-like response, evaluating in an active way and finding the self-confidence to form opinions with your heart and head.
It’s not always easy to come to grips with objects or ideas and think about them until it’s possible to express why you like them or not, yet taking part in a healthy and productive creative process requires such reflective engagement.

Killing The Creative Effort

Taste is developing a refined sense of judgment and finding the balance that produces a gratifying and integrated whole. The small-scale justifications must contribute to a scheme larger than themselves. The design responsibility expands to balancing the many individual refined-like responses against the other side of the taste equation, the attempt to create a pleasing and integrated whole.

The Value Of Good Taste In Holistic Design

The appearance of a product should tell you what it is and how to use it. Objects should explain themselves.

To make great work, one requires a combination of people and commitment. Creative selection and the seven essential elements were our most important product development ingredients, but it took committed people to breathe life into these concepts and transform them into a culture. The culture we created is inseparable from the products we created. In my experience, this manner of culture formation works best when the groups and teams remain small, when the interpersonal interactions are habitual and rich rather than occasional and fleeting.

A Committed Team

In any complex effort, communicating a well-articulated vision for what you’re trying to do is the starting point for figuring out how to do it. And though coming up with such a vision is difficult, it’s unquestionably more difficult to complete the entire circuit, to come up with an idea, a plan to realize the idea, and then actualize the plan at a high standard, all without getting bogged down, changing direction entirely, or failing outright.

A Well Articulated Design Vision

When developing Safari, the Apple team quickly ran into speed and performance issues. Steve mandated that the browser be fast, so one member of the team (Don) directed that they implement a set of automated tests that would launch the browser and have it load a bunch of web pages in succession and report back a speed. Ken wrote the code for it and soon they had their “Page Load Test” (PLT) benchmark, which enabled their development process to ensure the product became “faster by never getting slower”.

Apple Stories: Safari

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<li>Inspiration: Thinking big ideas and imagining what might be possible</li>
<li>Collaboration: Working together well with other people.</li>
<li>Craft: Applying skill to achieve high-quality results and always striving to do better.</li>
<li>Diligence: Doing the necessary grunt work and never resorting to shortcuts or half measures.</li>
<li>Decisiveness: Making tough choices and refusing to delay or procrastinate.</li>
<li>Taste: Developing a refined sense of judgment and finding the balance that produces a pleasing and integrated whole.</li>
<li>Empathy: Trying to see the world from other people’s perspectives.</li>
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Ken Kocienda is a software engineer who, among other things, worked on “Project Purple”: Apple’s codename for the original iPhone. Ken writes about the process behind software creation at Apple—which he dubs "creative selection"—and how he thinks that process was a significant driver in how Apple came up with its world-class products.

* WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER * An insider's account of Apple's creative process during the golden years of Steve Jobs. Hundreds of millions of people use Apple products every day; several thousand work on Apple's campus in Cupertino, California; but only a handful sit at the drawing board. Creative Selection recounts the life of one of the few who worked behind the scenes, a highly-respected software engineer who worked in the final years of the Steve Jobs era—the Golden Age of Apple. Ken Kocienda offers an inside look at Apple’s creative process. For fifteen years, he was on the ground floor of the company as a specialist, directly responsible for experimenting with novel user interface concepts and writing powerful, easy-to-use software for products including the iPhone, the iPad, and the Safari web browser. His stories explain the symbiotic relationship between software and product development for those who have never dreamed of programming a computer, and reveal what it was like to work on the cutting edge of technology at one of the world's most admired companies. Kocienda shares moments of struggle and success, crisis and collaboration, illuminating each with lessons learned over his Apple career. He introduces the essential elements of innovation—inspiration, collaboration, craft, diligence, decisiveness, taste, and empathy—and uses these as a lens through which to understand productive work culture. An insider's tale of creativity and innovation at Apple, Creative Selection shows readers how a small group of people developed an evolutionary design model, and how they used this methodology to make groundbreaking and intuitive software which countless millions use every day.

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* WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER * An insider's account of Apple's creative process during the golden years of Steve Jobs. Hundreds of millions of people use Apple products every day; several thousand work on Apple's campus in Cupertino, California; but only a handful sit at the drawing board. Creative Selection recounts the life of one of the few who worked behind the scenes, a highly-respected software engineer who worked in the final years of the Steve Jobs era—the Golden Age of Apple. Ken Kocienda offers an inside look at Apple’s creative process. For fifteen years, he was on the ground floor of the company as a specialist, directly responsible for experimenting with novel user interface concepts and writing powerful, easy-to-use software for products including the iPhone, the iPad, and the Safari web browser. His stories explain the symbiotic relationship between software and product development for those who have never dreamed of programming a computer, and reveal what it was like to work on the cutting edge of technology at one of the world's most admired companies. Kocienda shares moments of struggle and success, crisis and collaboration, illuminating each with lessons learned over his Apple career. He introduces the essential elements of innovation—inspiration, collaboration, craft, diligence, decisiveness, taste, and empathy—and uses these as a lens through which to understand productive work culture. An insider's tale of creativity and innovation at Apple, Creative Selection shows readers how a small group of people developed an evolutionary design model, and how they used this methodology to make groundbreaking and intuitive software which countless millions use every day.

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Professionals are overloaded with inputs. Emails, phone calls, incessant Slack pings—the fact is, most employees won't pay much attention to a process until it's forced upon them.
To get through effectively, you need to over-communicate. Then, you need to simplify your message. 
Zealous and clear messaging guarantees a baseline understanding of how new automations will help.

Communicate constantly, effectively, and annoyingly

It's easy to get lost in the excitement of building something new; to fixate on outcomes over impact; to lose sight of the humans that ultimately drive your company's culture and operations.
Change is never easy, so put yourself in the shoes of the people most affected by the changes you're making.

Empathize

As an internal champion of automation, you need allies. Across teams and departments, you'll find early adopters and advocates who eagerly embrace change. These employees will help you with a smooth transition.
Connecting with these influencers early in the automation process is crucial. Get their earnest feedback, highlight their contributions internally, and probe them on how effective a proposed change might actually be in the real world.

Secure buy-in from key influencers

It's critical that processes are crafted, first and foremost, for humans. Change management should begin immediately when creating a new process; failing to plan all but guarantees resistance. This requires a deep and extensive understanding of where employees are. This may not be where you want them.
Tech-friendly workers are often out of touch with other employees. What might be second nature to you or me—using keyboard shortcuts, setting up inbox rules, or even enabling night mode—simply doesn't cross the minds of workers who are focused on completing the task they are paid to complete.

Meet stakeholders where they are, not where you want them to be

Even though some of the backend steps won't ever be visible to end-users, it's still a good practice to keep your automations straightforward. 
After all, it's possible you'll need to train someone on maintaining these processes in the future, and intricate flows are more likely to break. Excessive complexity will only lead to more growing pains.

Don't overcomplicate things

When it comes to automation, the value proposition seems clear cut: it strengthens operations, slashes overhead costs, and supports bottom-line growth. There is, of course, a wrinkle: people fear change.
While many businesses are eager to automate as many processes as possible, a portion of Small And Midsize Businesses either lack the resources or the will to streamline simple tasks. Sometimes, there's even outright resistance—employees fear replacement, leaders fret over inflexible workflows, or traditionalists dread the drumbeat of new technology conquering their way of work.

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