Weekend Reading — #FeministHackerBarbie

#FeministHackerBarbie is fantastic Design Objective Responsive Design A/B Testing Leads to a 130% Increase in Clicks Litmus shares some data that backs what we ancedotally know: people prefer opening responsive emails on their mobile devices. The Myth Of AI Regarding machine learning and recommendation engines (Amazon, Facebook, NetFlix etc)

Weekend Reading — Horror Vacui

This is a million dollar idea Design Objective Horror Vacui Ever wondered why software UI degrades over time? Humans have the same tendency when it comes to visual design. No empty space! Your screen has a few white pixels? What feature can we put there! Quick! Find something we can

Weekend Reading — Fitzpatrick Modifiers

Design Objective Form Usability: The Pitfalls of Inline Accordion and Tab Designs Multi-part forms have an inherit problem: it's never quite clear what changes are saved when you hit the save button. An exploration of how accordions and tabs confuse people and how to better design complex forms.

Weekend Reading — Happy Halloween

Design Objective HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives The W3C writes a phonebook's worth of text about the alt attribute (and some about the figure element). Kodus, because almost everyone is using them wrong. @jdrumgoole: Slack and Whatsapp tell us one thing. The market for doing better

Weekend Reading — Every Talk Ever Given By A Successful Person

Darius Kazemi at XOXO 2014, 20 minutes full of awesome Design Objective The End Of Apps As We Know Them Very insightful post from Intercom on the changing ways in which we interact with mobile apps: indirectly through notifications, widgets and cards embedded in other apps. @andywhitlock: I drew you

Weekend Reading — Drone racing

Design Objective How Bad UX Killed Jenny Bad UI is not just annoying, but UI can kill. Your next project needs a white-hat jerk The purpose of the white-hat jerk is to find all the ways people can turn your product/community into another 4chan, so you can fix these

How To Pay Your Bill In 7 Easy Steps

Step 1 Your adventure begins with this login screen that doesn't quite know what it wants you to do first. All these Really Important Buttons abound. Fortunately, you know why you're here for — to pay your bill — so let the adventure begin: login! Step 2 Locate

Weekend Reading — The war on women

The War on Women Trouble at the Koolaid Point Kathy Sierra harassed and forced off the Internet, but left us with an incredible narrative about the war on women. If you read nothing else this week, read this. At the core is a form of weaponized mansplaining: nothing a woman

Weekend Reading — Move fast and break things

Design Objective Selfish Accessibility Another great presentation on accessibility. This one asks what happens when you grow older, get into an accident, or just computing while eating at your desk, and how we can design for accessibility that helps all of us in our day to day. Responsive Design: Why