Weekend Reading — Minimizing Suffering

Jack Schaedler "A Map of the web from the perspective of an audio software developer. Complete with sea monsters. Not drawn to scale." Design Objective Present & Correct IRL legacy code: "A 'Thomasson' is an architectural relic which is useless yet still maintained." Natalie

Weekend Reading — Pothole Vigilantes

Greg Young "I had never seen this expressed in art before but brilliant!" Design Objective I Can Has Petz? The new Petbarn branding is brilliant. Pavel A. Samsonov 🧼 Someone bought the wrong soap, still good advice on UX: Your product must provide feedback to the user when a

Weekend Reading — With Pockets

Max. "David Bowie as Yerba Mate: a thread" This Weekend Reading is short and not on a weekend. Just returned from vacation, road trip through beautiful Montana and Idaho. Design Objective How Netflix’s Customer Obsession Created a Customer Obsession This article is full of nuggets, here'

Weekend Reading — Launch The Octopus

Scott Hanselman "I have never felt so special" Design Objective Doug Collins Way to drive the point home: Give your users a warning and an out before they take actions with potentially catastrophic consequences. #ux #design Sarah Federman 💯 Your periodic reminder that design is what ships, not what

Weekend Reading — Running the Tangents

Vinay Patel "GDPR is my therapist" Design Objective Why EU Regions are Redrawing Their Borders Good lesson in politics, though I'm mesmerized by the visualization. It hijacks browser scrolling, but at least puts it to good use. 58 bytes of css to look great nearly everywhere

Weekend Reading — That Emergency Chi-Squared Test

Galit Ariel "Because – Tuesday." Design Objective The Design Process of “Why Do Cats & Dogs ...?” A long and thorough read, exploring the visualization of related search terms. Mitch Goldstein What about the prequels? Graphic Designer Product Designer Interaction Designer Web Designer Digital Designer UX Designer Design: Ragnarok Episode

Weekend Reading — Hot Dog Stand

dracomallfoys "actors in period costumes behind the scenes with modern technology will never fail to be the funniest thing" Design Objective Everything you need to know about Loading Animations I love the creative animations in this article. Joe Schmoe Get an avatar from a link. Try https://joeschmoe.

Weekend Reading — The second page of Google search

On the Hunt for Japan’s Elaborate, Colorful Manhole Covers Street art. Design Objective How to simplify your design 👍 This article itself is well designed, with 21 illustrated examples and just the right amount of text. Rules for Autocomplete If you're doing any work on autocomplete UI, this

Weekend Reading — "Oh snap" kitten

hardmaru “Pongdrian” Design Objective The Value of Inconvenient Design Take a cue from nature, and design your app with a healthy dose of friction: But nature is the ultimate optimizer, having run an endless slate of A/B tests over billions of years at scale. And in nature, friction and