Weekend Reading — Yeah no for sure

Design Objective Rethinking URL bars as primary browser UI The time for address bars is past, and I buy this argument: "Our ability to understand who we’re talking to on the web is underpinned by search engines." Case Study: Re-designing RetailTower I love detailed case studies like

Weekend Reading — Double double

Design Objective Metrics Versus Experience Bad decisions can be made in the name of "lifting metrics", that doesn't mean metrics are bad. Julie presents her framework for using metrics effectively: * To assess for product-market fit, look at retention. * To optimize for growth, understand your funnel. * Figure

Weekend Reading — #ItCanWait

Design Objective Chatbots: Your Ultimate Prototyping Tool How chatbots can teach us what people need when designing products and services. Paul Stamatiou "when the engineer only reads half of your email about the design" Tools of the Trade Homebrew 1.0.0 Happy birthday! I'm most

Weekend Reading — Pumpkin spice

Design Objective The Greatest Sales Deck I’ve Ever Seen How to tell the story of a software product/service with a slide deck. Tools of the Trade The math of CSS locks CSS doesn't have max-font-size or min-font-size, but this formula gives you the same effect: responsive

Weekend Reading — Fidgety

Design Objective A Bad Product Decision "Fuck-ups will happen. You won’t be perfect. But it doesn’t mean you can’t be a great PM." Five tips for improving your technical writing and documentation. Get more users and fewer support requests by leveling up your writing and

Weekend Reading — Not a morning person

15 things people who love to sleep truly understand Design Objective Tutorial: CSS Fixed Positioning in Interactive Email Cool trick that adds animation to emails by using CSS position: fixed. Ways To Reduce Content Shifting On Page Load Content shifting on page load is annoying. No one likes it. Here

Weekend Reading — The hardest problem in computer science

Design Objective When to Use a Switch or Checkbox What I love about this post is, once you spend a few minutes thinking about it, it's pretty obvious and easy to remember: You should only use switches on settings that need to take effect instantaneously. If a setting

Weekend Reading — Full-stack boyfriend

Design Objective UX for Engineers Yes, engineers can do UX, because UX is not about things like “shared aesthetic vocabulary” — UX is about making something that works. Or as Assaf (not me) summarizes it: Think of the user as the final integration in the application stack. Great Products Don’t

Weekend Reading — Mornings are hard

Design Objective Hypothesis driven UX design This, so much this: 1. Take your assumptions and state them as explicit hypotheses 2. Let your team buy into stated hypotheses 3. Force yourself to design according to your hypotheses 4. Force yourself to test against your hypotheses 5. Create a culture of