Weekend Reading — Languages are bananas

From the amazing Miniature Calendar. Design Objective Dave Malouf 🤔 This notion that "it's all just a guess until we ship to production" flies in the face of decades of research in HCI, psych, etc. The point isn't knowing for sure, but increasing confidence as

Weekend Reading — Corner Computing

Chris Fralic "Once upon a time Packard Bell made a thing called a Corner Computer. To go in the corner." Design Objective Hawaii missile alert: How one employee ‘pushed the wrong button’ and caused a wave of panic Maybe not the best design choice: From a drop-down menu

Weekend Reading — Epic meltdown

So I've been sick for most of last week. Hence this edition of Weekend Reading is short and late. Feeling better now, thank you for asking. Also, traveling this week. So the next edition will also be short and late. Back to our normal schedule in the second

Weekend Reading — Waves and werewolves

Comfortably Smug "Humans definitely won't regret creating robot snakes with lasers on their heads" Design Objective Designing Better Design Documentation Some ways you can make documents clearer, better structured, and more appealing. Tools of the Trade osquery SQL queries for OS performance metrics (via): SELECT * FROM

Weekend Reading — Purritos

Architectural Turducken "Europe r u ok" Design Objective Serious products don’t have to be serious TL;DR The hierarchy of needs applies to all products, even money transfer is a feature that can delight users. Google Maps’s Moat Doesn't explain the moat, but does

Weekend Reading — Rick and Morty

Nature is Amazing "Can watch it whole day long 😍" Design Objective Jorge Arango 🤔 Progressive Image Loading using Intersection Observer and SQIP SQIP = Low Quality Image Placeholders, but with SVG: The idea behind this technique is that on a slow connection, you are able to present the user with

Weekend Reading — Belgian whistles

Fluff Society "Baby starfish learning to starfish" Design Objective The State of UX for 2018 Voice, conversational interfaces, micro-interactions, useful animations, VR still a fad, and much more. The User Experience of Design Systems Takes a long look at design systems in general, Material Design in particular, and

Weekend Reading — Let that sink in

Cute Baby Animals "This is the best thing on the internet today." Design Objective H Λ N И Λ H Is your product useful or entertaining? Designing for trust > delight The rest of the world outside of the tech bubble could care less about 'delight'

Weekend Reading — Need copy and link

Design Objective @mcclure111 "Here, modern design's tendency toward cryptic, monochrome icons created a situation where VS Code seems to be communicating to me that setting barrels of oil on fire makes it happy" Tools of the Trade @estellevw If I had a penny for every time