Weekend Reading — Peanuts and Flakes

Peter Bukowinski "Chaotic neutral" Design Objective The ghosts of technology in today’s language Explores the origin of words/terms that we use figuratively, but once had a literal meaning. For example: Both radio and TV stations still ask us to tune in, even though tuners don’t

Weekend Reading — Does this bring me joy?

Design Objective Michael Bolton Hits nail on the head: 25. In most user stories, nobody is ever interrupted, distracted, naive, confused, under pressure, impatient, disabled, outside of wireless access. Nobody makes human mistakes. Nobody closes the damned laptop lid. The characters in user stories might as well be drones, robots.

Weekend Reading — Keep The Space Shuttle Flying

41 Strange "Joseph Ducreux (1735 –1802) was a French painter who is known primarily for his unorthodox self-portraits" Design Objective How the Great Recession influenced a decade of design The relationship between the economy and how things look: Consumers’ growing interest in used fashion — which means more people

Weekend Reading — Tank Sinatra

Karl Sharro "The first instance of humans sharing pictures of their food with friends on their wall." Design Objective Consistency in Design is the Wrong Approach Consistency can be a design trap: When you think about consistency, you’re thinking about the product. When you’re thinking about

Weekend Reading — Cat In The Middle attack

Tom Eastman I die. Design Objective The State of UX in 2019 Where to begin? I thought this would be another "hot UI trends for 2019 that will make you look cool to your Dribble friends", but this article is much better than that. It talks about the

Weekend Reading — Gentle bump

Scott Jon Siegel 🤯 Design Objective Jared Spool Point that's often lost in the org chart: Adrienne Porter Felt Who counts as a family? According to @cvspharmacy, all parents must share the same last name as their child. Some developer added an if-check, probably without thinking about it too

Weekend Reading — Are you really running the code?

SS astronaut finds NASA floppy disks in space Windows 95. Mint condition. Buyer picks up. Design Objective This Is UX Writing at Its Very Best Examples of great microcopy, many puns, and even a brutally honest search filter: Alan Cooper This thread applies equally well to development practices and interaction

Weekend Reading — The Britney Spears effect

Artëm Chistyakov "Rembrandt, “A New Message in Slack”, 1633 #devart" Design Objective The Graphic Art of Incredibles 2 Behind the scenes look at the architecture, graphic design, and the two world fairs that inspired the Incredibles 2. The amazing attention to detail make it such a fun movie

Weekend Reading — Everyday cosplay

Guide to Computing Amazing photos, from when computers doubled as furniture. Design Objective Luke Wroblewski "people will scroll unless you tell them not to." Early Drafts Every great piece of work starts somewhere. Tools of the Trade Now 2.0 Zeit has built an incredibly easy to use