Weekend Reading — Do dates make you nervous?

Design Objective Design Better Data Tables How to display tabular data: Tables might be boring, but they are such a major element of any data-rich document that they’re worth every ounce of design thinking we can apply to them. Making a case for letter case Just as title case

Weekend Reading — The Churn

Design Objective 4 ways I’ve fucked up as a designer Solid takeaways, like this one: Don’t skip process. User flows? User scenarios? User stories? User jokes? User lollipops and user flashlights and user sinuses? Yes please, give it all to me. I don’t care if it exists

Weekend Reading — Laser Flip Triple Set

Design Objective Transit Maps: Apple vs. Google vs. Us Transit App explains how they render their transit maps. @tw: Short, sweet, 100% effective: Engineer's guide to good design: 1. Build it how you would want it 2. Remove half the functionality 3. Double the whitespace Psychology of Design

Weekend Reading — Sets a Pokelure in the meeting room

Design Objective Complexion Reduction: A New Trend in Design IMO this new fashion trend makes apps easier to use: The defining characteristics of this hot new trend sweeping across Silicon Valley are: 1. Bigger, bolder headlines 2. Simpler more universal icons 3. Extraction of color How much interface does your

Weekend Reading — Legoland Space

Design Objective Design Better Forms Common mistakes designers make and how to fix them. Always use a label Accommodating labels into a visual design can be challenging but shying away from the challenge is not the answer. Embrace the challenge, don’t over simplify. And of course, always use a

Weekend Reading — Track Changes

Design Objective Hamburger Menus and Hidden Navigation Hurt UX Metrics TL;DR Discoverability is cut almost in half by hiding a website’s main navigation. Also, task time is longer and perceived task difficulty increases. ignore the code: Input Masks: Violating User Expectations Don’t be too clever for your

Weekend Reading — The suffering of algorithms

Design Objective Typography for User Interfaces Fantastic read about typography, and a look at the future: In the future though, I imagine typefaces becoming more aware of their surroundings and starting to respond to a number of factors like viewport, resolution, type rendering engine used, ambient light, screen brightness and

Weekend Reading — git shower

@idiot "when your shower uses github more than you" Design Objective Technical and social challenges of conversational design I made my website conversational. Here is what I learned. Messaging Design Kit A design kit for Sketch, containing everything you need to craft rich messaging experiences. ‏@SoftwareFailed "Maybe

Weekend Reading — Square knot

Design Objective Building Products This is fantastic, go and read it right now. I can’t tell which is the best quote, so I’ll pick one at random: When exploring solutions for a particular problem, go broad before going deep. Brainstorm 10, 20, 50 solutions for the problem before