Weekend Reading — Codependent watches

"Smart" watches 1982 vs 2014 Design Objective @stewart: Best #1 design tip: close eyes; take breath; clear mind; open eyes. Now pretend you're a human being who has to read/use/do this. Simple. Single Responsibility Designing better CSS by following the single responsibility principle. Das

Weekend Reading — "Word count"

Design Objective Leaving Pixels Behind SVG is the future, learn to design with vectors. Your syntax highlighter is wrong Some good, thought provoking ideas there. (I disagree with the conclusion, though, green/red are semantic colors for add/remove, using them simplifies the UI) It’s better for older workers

Weekend Reading — The truth behind open source

Design Objective Designing design tools takes a look at the latest crop of design tools: Origami, Marvel, Sketch, Maccaw, and friends. Redsgned is a showcase of the very best redesigns from across the web. Behavior Design teaches you the basics of designing products that change people's behaviors. This

Weekend Reading — r > g

Design Objective Adaptive Placeholders I love this concept: placeholders that double as labels. Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses Whether made by programmers or others, these are all design mistakes. The Great Works of Software If there was a software canon, clearly Office, Photoshop, Pac-Man, Unix and Emacs will be there.

Weekend Reading — Client brief

Design Objective Stop Wasting Users’ Time Examples for design anti-patterns that do little more than waste our most precious resource. Labelmask Interesting way to add input masks to form fields, but without the accessibility issues. Responsive Design: Why and how we ditched the good old select element "The concept

Weekend Reading — The Bread of Affliction

Design Objective The Cassette Tape as Responsive Design This is how we tackled responsive design in the 70's. Favor the Simple over the Complex An all time favorite: Simplicity doesn’t happen accidentally. It needs to be actively cultivated. Complexity is what happens when you aren’t paying

Weekend Reading – Bleeding Hearts

This was big enough to warrant a second Weekend Reading. FAQ Is this a big deal? Should I be concerned? Yes. If you like to sleep better at night, I suggest not reading the rest of this FAQ. What was stolen? We have no idea what was stolen, but we

Weekend Reading – Smart tipping

Design Objective The State of In-Car UX TL;DR your $200K ride is fitted with a $50 tablet, designed by people who'll never drive that car. Generating visual designs with code Examples of programmatic art work at Github. Design Can Drive Exceptional Returns for Shareholders: To better understand

Weekend Reading – Should I deploy on a Friday at 5pm?

Design Objective Should “Yes, delete it” be red, or green? When in doubt, remove the text and ask again. Use autocapitalize to make input faster & format appropriate: Four things I wish every chart did: annotate the data, annotate the slopes, exclude incomplete periods, and enable projections. Now can we