Weekend Reading — Acquihire

Design Objective Let's play a game. Guess which color is for links, which for plain text, which for input field placeholders The VP of Devil’s Advocacy: The answer, it seems, is that most of those people were likely too close to the projects to see what was

Weekend Reading — The New Math

The new math Design Objective Creating distraction-free reading experiences: It’s our job as designers to bring clarity back to the digital canvas by crafting reading experiences that put readers first. Try something new on every project: All it takes a little bravery. Throw caution to the wind, take a

Rounded Corners — American Ninja

[Kacy Catanzaro at the 2014 Dallas Finals](http://youtu.be/XfZFuw7a13E) Design Objective There Is No Page Fold Catering to your colorblind users What if all web sites supported the .colorblind CSS class? Drunk User Testing "The first usability testing tool that tells you how your site performs in

Weekend Reading — Phone booths

Design Objective The Product Thesis: While I’ve always tried to be customer- and data-driven, I struggled with communicating all the information locked in my head to the rest of the team. They needed to know why we were building a new feature and all the necessary information to build

Weekend Reading — 238 Years Later

The Story Behind This Incredible Photo Of A Monkey Using An iPhone Design Objective Interface Moss: When software in a particular category stops rapidly evolving and its interface begins to develop along a set of accepted patterns, designers begin to decorate. … Prolonged times of slow evolution lead to decorative excess.

Weekend Reading — Brand engagement in the wilds

Brand engagement in the wilds (of Florida, I presume) Design Objective @lukew: The two workhorses of UI are inputs and IA. Visual design, though, gets all the love. @gem_ray: The world doesn't need new and innovative interaction patterns as much as designers believe. It just needs shit

Weekend Reading – .DS_Store

.DS_Store in real life Design Objective How Community Feedback Shapes User Behavior TL;DR downvotes lead to more but bad content, upvotes has neutral effect, no feedback and people leave. Tools of the Trade collections.js JavaScript implementation of common collections: lists, maps, LRU/LFU, sets, heap, etc. Omelette.

Weekend Reading — What programmers say

Design Objective Can the digital IKEA effect increase user engagement and brand loyalty? Designing for user involvement. Design Club - Super Mario Bros: Level 1-1 - Game Analysis Epic video analysis of how Super Mario Bros teaches you to play the game through level design. iOS 8: New Features The

Weekend Reading – Prevent cable company fuckery

Design Objective iOS 8 scans credit card details using iPhone camera Does your design considers sensors? What product designers can learn from iOS 8's iMessage changes This is an interesting look at how you grow new features and usage pattern into the UI, adding and simplifying at the