Labnotes
July 21st, 2019 6 min read

Weekend Reading — After this week things will slow down

Josh Constine “When people ask why I work from home so much” Design Objective Steve Schoger Dark mode is not simply the inverse of light mode: đŸ”„ When implementing dark mode, don’t throw away the visual cues in the light version by naively inverting the color scheme. Close elements should

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July 14th, 2019 7 min read

Weekend Reading — "This is a great start!"

storyofmyfuckinglife This could be the title of my autobiography. Design Objective Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design The iMac's hockey puck mouse, the MacBook's butterfly keyboard, the Apple TV remote, the list goes on: The quote often attributed to Einstein is “everything

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July 6th, 2019 7 min read

Weekend Reading — Good Weight And A Nice Finish

Ikea releases free ‘Soffa Sans’ font made of couches “The world’s comfiest font” Design Objective User Inyerface Let me ruin your day with this “A worst-practice UI experiment”. Sahil Lavingia 💯 Great product design is customer support at scale. The counter argument that “best support is no support” is false.

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June 30th, 2019 6 min read

Weekend Reading — Sparkling Statistics

How to speak Silicon Valley: 53 essential tech-bro terms explained đŸ”„đŸ”„đŸ”„ Design Objective laura olin She's not wrong: Every forthcoming article about Jonny Ive’s design genius and legacy should be required by law to include this photo Kim Goodwin 💯 Engineering decisions are UX decisions, exhibit 127: if there

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June 23rd, 2019 6 min read

Weekend Reading — The Char Dog Race

rahel aima "who is the oasis bakery spices copywriter i just want to talk" Design Objective How VisiCalc’s Spreadsheets Changed the World It's the 40th anniversary of the first "killer app": Bricklin writes that he even got advice from some of his professors.

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June 16th, 2019 5 min read

Weekend Reading — This will fix it! Nope.

Check out Fincky for more amazing FPV drone videos. Design Objective Aaron Levie 💯 As a startup, always bias toward simple. Customers will tell you when your product doesn't do enough, but will never ask for fewer features when they stop using your product because it's too

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June 9th, 2019 6 min read

Weekend Reading — Symbol of Resistance

Scott Knaster Oh snap! "I'm so old I remember dark mode on the Apple ][." Design Objective Why Trust Matters Short and to the point deck about trust and brands. The one comment that turns me off when I'm interviewing designers TL;DR design is

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June 2nd, 2019 6 min read

Weekend Reading — Traci is willing to stay late

Josh Sternberg "Wonder how Ikea came to the decision to include this disclaimer." Design Objective Introducing Mercury OS Interesting UX. If you like working in the flow, check it out. Erika Hall 💯 Designers need to learn economics more than designers need to learn how to code. Digital design

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May 26th, 2019 5 min read

Weekend Reading — Requiem for a heap allocation

Adam Graham "Whatever Twitter’s intentions were, this is what it has become" Design Objective I wrote the book on user-friendly design. What I see today horrifies me Don Norman on how design fails older consumers: Despite our increasing numbers the world seems to be designed against the

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