Labnotes
April 2nd, 2016 5 min read

Weekend Reading β€” Evening-oriented people will understand

Design Objective Introducing Design Systems Ops An interesting way to deal with the gap between design and engineering: A Design Systems Ops is a person who is part of a design systems team … At the same time, Design Systems Ops need to understand the engineering requirements … In a way, a

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March 26th, 2016 7 min read

Weekend Reading β€” "Delete it!"

@benhtml "Delete it" This week I'm trying something new. It's the same Weekly Reading format, but I'm using a new tool called Revue to edit this issue. I hope you like it. Tools of the Trade Dirty Tricks From The Dark 
Corners

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March 19th, 2016 4 min read

Weekend Reading β€” Ohnosecond

@sdw "I label increasingly nonsensical images with β€˜UI’ and β€˜UX’ and hope they get used in serious presentations" This week we stay awake until 2AM because Photoshop; we Google "python curses"; we review the new O RLY? book; we learn about the ohnosecond; remember when computers

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March 12th, 2016 5 min read

Weekend Reading β€” It's now safe to turn off your computer

@teenybiscuit (Also and also and also) Design Objective The Myths of UX Design/ Product Design/Whatever They Call It This Week Explains away the confusion between UX design, product design, ID/AI/UI, if you're into that sort of things. When U.S. air force discovered the flaw

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March 5th, 2016 6 min read

Weekend Reading β€” The last programming book you'll ever need

@ThePracticalDev This week we learn to design with empathy; make Bash sensible again; let me npm that for you; we explore bad metaphor; IRS gets hacked again; art and science are made for each other; no more voicemail! Design Objective Too Sensitive You can't do good UI until

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February 27th, 2016 5 min read

Weekend Reading β€” Inner Galactic Lovers

This week we learn about the delayed effects of system design failures; multi-person authentication; we talk about comparison signs and code reviews; impossible errors that do happen; using lottery for better security; creating music from unrelated YouTube videos. Design Objective Design Trumps Training "Delayed effects of system design failures&

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February 20th, 2016 5 min read

Weekend Reading β€” Too soon?

@LASTEXITshirts Too soon? This week we build a lightsaber app and revisit the PC XT; Node.js reactions do tumblr dot com; we practice naming things; and learn to not prematurely optimize; let AIs talk amongst themselves; we turn the gears on Ferrero Rocher. Tools of the Trade iTerm2 Version

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February 13th, 2016 6 min read

Weekend Reading β€” Resistence is futile

How to download and print NASA’s 14 brilliant travel posters at home This week we remove the center line; we find a way to blame others; we struggle to name things; we pick on locking algorithms; we kill some dependencies; the Fitbit pregnancy test; we hack a toilet; the

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February 6th, 2016 6 min read

Weekend Reading β€” A long time ago in a suburb far, far away ...

@skywalkertwink "wHO DID THIS" This week we explore existential UIs; we discover Emacs for Vim people; there's a better way to handle JS exceptions; "remote dynamic linking"; we visit the malware museum; times were tough before the GoPro; these are not the batteries you

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