Weekend Reading — Just patch it

Josh Gondelman "At the very least, you've got to use a smaller font, guys." Design Objective Design Better Data Tables This article is an illustrated collection of data table design patterns: Good data tables allow users to scan, analyze, compare, filter, sort, and manipulate information to

Weekend Reading — How likely are you to recommend?

Colm Design Objective Meetup: A Usability Case Study Tweaking and fixing usability issues in the new Meetup app (ps: this is a passion project, not affiliated with Meetup). Mobile First, Desktop Worst Mobile-first is not a license to over-simplify, just like desktop-first is not a license to over-complicate. Designing forms

Weekend Reading — A handle on this

Hsing-Hui Hsu "I thought I had a handle on this" Design Objective Information Architecture. The Most Important Part of Design You’re Probably Overlooking. Indeed: Tips for Creating Good, Clean Information Architecture 1. Be very clear about what’s important (and what isn’t). 2. Think in terms

Weekend Reading — Easy schleping

Biisuke Ball's Big Adventure Part 2 Brilliant. Design Objective Everyone is a designer. Get over it. Exactly: Whether you like it or not, whether you approve it or not, people outside of your design team are making significant design choices that affect your customers in important ways. They

Weekend Reading — Burger wars

Downtown Josh Brown "I found it. The coolest dog of all time." Design Objective Factory vs. Studio Pick the right start conditions, the rest will follow: The first time I did this activity, I had no idea what to expect, but the results blew me away. Start conditions

Weekend Reading — We've come full circle

Ana Milicevic "We've come full circle ⭕" Design Objective Luke Wroblewski "not only do people prefer not entering city/state, they’re 93% faster when using ZIP to get both automatically." 2017 state of email report (PDF) 80 pages of what's new, what

Weekend Reading — Rolling out user stories

Patrick Wong "JIRA is rolling out stories" (Other apps adding stories to mock Facebook) Design Objective Design thinking lessons from our cats "Think inside the box." Meet the inventor of the electronic spreadsheet Dan Bricklin's TED talk, on how VisiCalc came to happen, and

Weekend Reading — The future is confusing

Matthew Deiters "The future is confusing" Design Objective Iteration is not design Iterations can help improve your designs, but "to mistake the design tool of iteration for design itself is a grave error." Strengthening Your Idea Muscles Write 10 ideas a day. How to design accessible

Weekend Reading — All boxes are cat-sized

@coderzombie Can't stop laughing. Design Objective Steve Sanderson "A heatmap visualisation of where the door handle should be:" LiquidText Inking The Liquid Text demo video is brilliant. This is one of the most interesting, tech-augmented, user interaction I've seen in a long while. I&