Weekend Reading — Find and Regret

Fobski "my new stock photo for depicting hacking" Design Objective Greg Greiner The difference between materials (left) and tools (right): Left: Long term investment. Right: Don’t get too attached. A Beginner’s Guide to Rapid Prototyping Overview of the current crop of wireframing / rapid prototyping tools. Amazing

Weekend Reading — Office Classics

allad8 Office classics. Design Objective Brianne Kimmel Keep on innovating! 6/ As a founder, you may never know the impact you have on the lives of individual users. There is so much more to life than curing cancer. Anything that makes someone smile & feel better about their current situation

Weekend Reading — Defeat the baby

Michael Margolis "Alexa: remind me to feed the baby" Design Objective Iván "This is what person with low vision sees (2008: 45m people in the US alone) Supporting dynamic type in iOS is not a nice to have. It’s a must." Ha Phan 🤔 Is that

Weekend Reading — Sonder

@GidgetNomates "Real footage of everyone who buys a raspberry pi" Design Objective Luke Wroblewski A good design doesn't need guided tutorials. Read the thread, or watch the talk: The initial tip was all about getting people to the core value of the app. Which required adding

Weekend Reading — Change my name and move to Alaska

Kevin Kuchta “Waiting for Cloudfront” Edgar Degas, 1880–82. Pastel on paper. (For more check out #ArtofAWS) Design Objective Luke Wroblewski "how to find usability issues: look for the 'band-aids'" Designer Challenges Himself To Create Logos With Hidden Meanings For A Year, And Result Is Amazing

Weekend Reading — Waffles!

Dean Alexander Amazing photo campaign for the Hong Kong Ballet (h/t Ohyo) Design Objective Robin Rendle "This is a seasonal reminder that http://codepen.io/patterns is the best resource if you happen to be researching a new design pattern." Hidden Sheep and Typography Archaeology Unpacking the

Weekend Reading – Service Burrito

Xavier Katana "The walkway is not spinning." Design Objective Steve Schoger In fact, if your UI looks like the database schema … 🔥 Don't be afraid to "think outside the database" — your UI doesn't need to map one-to-one with your data's fields

Weekend Reading — Silent GIFs

Emily "A visual representation of overthinking, anxiety, and paranoia" Design Objective Miles Skorpen When the UI element doesn't look like it's part of the UI: We saw the same issue with RedLaser. We made our "scan" button huge and different color from

Weekend Reading — 9 reasons why you should approve this PR

Pure CSS Francine This stunning image, in the style of 18th-century oil paintings, but hand-coded entirely in HTML & CSS. 🤯 Design Objective The Best Place for Error Messages on Forms TL;DR If you have time to implement error messages for both devices, opt for placing them to the right