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

Weekend Reading – The Expert

Design Objective Automating Layouts Bring Flipboard’s Magazine Style To Web And Windows Remarkable technology by Flipboard to automate page layout for multiple content types and devices. I love how it pays attention to every little detail. Really Good Emails "The Best Email Designs in the Universe (that came

Rounded Corners - apt-get remove emacs

Design Objective We make the web – let’s make it accessible It's our responsibility: It leaves a lost opportunity by not being inclusive. And heck, it’s even the law now in several countries. So I think we ought to spend a little time learning the basics of

Zero downtime deploy with Dokku

TL;DR we hacked Dokku to check-list new deployments before switching traffic over, eliminating down time. Here's our fork. Dokku is a wonderful tool for quickly deploying apps to production, but it's missing zero downtime deploys. Not anymore! Even our svelte Node.js app needs a

Weekend Reading – 2048

Design Objective Which Features to build? A simple framework for deciding which feature to build next: 1. positioning (clarity), 2. super powers (value), 3. used often (frequency), 4. low effort (lead time), 5. easy to grasp (immediacy), and 6. tweetable (word of mouth). 7 unbreakable laws of user interface design

Weekend Reading – Did you invent Bitcoin?

More awesome graphics and T-s by Glenn Jones Design Objective Continuum: Anyway, my point is—and I can’t believe I still have to repeat this after all these years—websites do not need to look exactly the same in every browser. Luke Wroblewski: My job as UI designer: 1)

Weekend Reading – Only 90s Web Developers Will Remember This

Design Objective Only 90s Web Developers Remember This. 1x1 pixels and &nbsp all the things! Numbers Made Beautiful shows how to make forms, navigation and charting work better on mobile. Ha Phan: Broken is harder to diagnose in a larger org, because there are more layers & more heroes

Weekend Reading – Pet dinosaurs

Design Objective How Evernote Onboards New Users is a detailed analysis of the Evernote onboarding process, the good and the typical lack of attention to details. First Time User Experiences showcases new user experiences from a variety of products. A Simple Improvement To Product Mails The most effective improvement you

Weekend Reading – Honest endorsements

Design Objective Grid, A simple guide to responsive design is short, well written, and beautifully designed. Kerning on the Web from which I learned that Chrome on Windows doesn't support kerning, and neither do Android 4.2 and 4.3 (but 4.1 and 4.4 are fine)