Weekend Reading — Running the Tangents

Vinay Patel "GDPR is my therapist" Design Objective Why EU Regions are Redrawing Their Borders Good lesson in politics, though I'm mesmerized by the visualization. It hijacks browser scrolling, but at least puts it to good use. 58 bytes of css to look great nearly everywhere

Weekend Reading — That Emergency Chi-Squared Test

Galit Ariel "Because – Tuesday." Design Objective The Design Process of “Why Do Cats & Dogs ...?” A long and thorough read, exploring the visualization of related search terms. Mitch Goldstein What about the prequels? Graphic Designer Product Designer Interaction Designer Web Designer Digital Designer UX Designer Design: Ragnarok Episode

Weekend Reading — Hot Dog Stand

dracomallfoys "actors in period costumes behind the scenes with modern technology will never fail to be the funniest thing" Design Objective Everything you need to know about Loading Animations I love the creative animations in this article. Joe Schmoe Get an avatar from a link. Try https://joeschmoe.

Weekend Reading — The second page of Google search

On the Hunt for Japan’s Elaborate, Colorful Manhole Covers Street art. Design Objective How to simplify your design 👍 This article itself is well designed, with 21 illustrated examples and just the right amount of text. Rules for Autocomplete If you're doing any work on autocomplete UI, this

Weekend Reading — "Oh snap" kitten

hardmaru “Pongdrian” Design Objective The Value of Inconvenient Design Take a cue from nature, and design your app with a healthy dose of friction: But nature is the ultimate optimizer, having run an endless slate of A/B tests over billions of years at scale. And in nature, friction and

Weekend Reading — Long enough to implement Jira

nathanwpylestrangeplanet Love this Instagram account and merch! Design Objective Jared Spool 👇 Design is more than shapes and colors: “The product’s design was excellent, but the product was buggy, so I couldn’t recommend it.” This is used as an excuse for why design-led orgs don’t work. Yet, that’

Weekend Reading — Modern Elders

Marques Brownlee "Ok well played @elonmusk @Tesla" Design Objective Scott Bateman 👇 Thread on the design choices in airplane UI: Almost every switch, lever, or handle that a pilot may have to move whilst inflight is shaped differently. Whether it be the external lights, radar controls, or the temperature

Weekend Reading — The smaller your ruler …

Ash Crossan "Me not being dramatic" Design Objective Austin "If you want to be noticed during a portfolio presentation, tell a good story." Norgard 👍 A useful tool is to end every product meeting with the following question, "Is this the simplest solution we can come

Weekend Reading — It works, but nobody knows why

Everyone should know about @bunnyarchive: tweet @bunnyarchive bunny for a cute bunny pic! Design Objective @edwinwee Next level presentation: Today I gave a lightning talk on emdashes and endashes and passed out these custom M&Ms. I was so pleased with myself. Helen Tran So much this! I mean