Weekend Reading — ; DROP TABLE "COMPANIES";-- LTD

Take a look behind-the-scenes with design documents from The Legend of Zelda! Design Objective What Comes Next Is the Future A beautiful documentary film about the web, its origins and future. Now I get it! How to design clarity in 3 steps. snipe "Gosh, if only someone would tell

Weekend Reading — I am not a robot

Leaked Footage of the Rogue One Sequel Design Objective The Four-Letter Code to Selling Just About Anything Cool is all about finding optimal newness: The highest evaluation scores went to submissions that were deemed slightly new. There is an “optimal newness” for ideas, Lakhani said—advanced yet acceptable. Tools of

Weekend Reading — The entire internet

joel "someone's cow just walked over and fell asleep on my legs?? and now i cant fucking move or ill wake her up" Design Objective Design words with data Should the button say "Log in"? "Sign in"? How about "Sign on&

Weekend Reading — My Partner Snores

Nat Pryce "The importance of isolating your microservices" Design Objective Jonathan Lupo Hear, hear: Biggest challenge in education is to divorce "Design" definition from aesthetics. #uxchat The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think Keep it extremely simple, or two thirds of the population

Weekend Reading — End of Code forWeb

Holiday and travel got in the way of publishing Weekend Reading, but I'm back and catching up on three weeks worth of fantastic links. "Uh oh" Design Objective The dangers of delightful design Everything, in context and in moderation: One thing I’ve learned is that

Rounded Corners — Copy & change variable names

Design Objective “Please enter a valid last name” Getting UX right starts with a name. If Satan was a web developer Creative ways for making web forms harder to use. The Practical Dev margin-right: -100px !important; Tools of the Trade Abstract App “It’s a version controlled workflow, built on

Weekend Reading — Old Fashioned Tumblers

Design Objective How to do a Product Critique It just has to happen because you’re curious, over and over and over again. Because you want to learn how to build good things. Watch and learn. That’s all there is to it. Aaron Hodder "Someone wrote this:"

Weekend Reading — When toasters attack

Design Objective How the Web Became Unreadable "I thought my eyesight was beginning to go. It turns out, I’m suffering from design." Tools of the Trade google/highwayhash Addressing performance and security, this package includes a faster version of SipHash, a data-parallel variant of SipHash using tree

Weekend Reading — That part's highlighted

Design Objective A Glimpse into the Future of Messaging-First Onboarding A case study on designing the on-boarding experience for the Slackbot Troops. Manisha Agarwal OH: Software is like a pinball machine. Nobody reads the printed instructions clearly.They just drop their quarters & start pushing buttons Amir Shevat Spot on.