Weekend Reading — Traci is willing to stay late

Josh Sternberg "Wonder how Ikea came to the decision to include this disclaimer." Design Objective Introducing Mercury OS Interesting UX. If you like working in the flow, check it out. Erika Hall 💯 Designers need to learn economics more than designers need to learn how to code. Digital design

Weekend Reading — Requiem for a heap allocation

Adam Graham "Whatever Twitter’s intentions were, this is what it has become" Design Objective I wrote the book on user-friendly design. What I see today horrifies me Don Norman on how design fails older consumers: Despite our increasing numbers the world seems to be designed against the

Weekend Reading — Minimizing Suffering

Jack Schaedler "A Map of the web from the perspective of an audio software developer. Complete with sea monsters. Not drawn to scale." Design Objective Present & Correct IRL legacy code: "A 'Thomasson' is an architectural relic which is useless yet still maintained." Natalie

Weekend Reading — Pothole Vigilantes

Greg Young "I had never seen this expressed in art before but brilliant!" Design Objective I Can Has Petz? The new Petbarn branding is brilliant. Pavel A. Samsonov 🧼 Someone bought the wrong soap, still good advice on UX: Your product must provide feedback to the user when a

Weekend Reading — With Pockets

Max. "David Bowie as Yerba Mate: a thread" This Weekend Reading is short and not on a weekend. Just returned from vacation, road trip through beautiful Montana and Idaho. Design Objective How Netflix’s Customer Obsession Created a Customer Obsession This article is full of nuggets, here'

Weekend Reading — Launch The Octopus

Scott Hanselman "I have never felt so special" Design Objective Doug Collins Way to drive the point home: Give your users a warning and an out before they take actions with potentially catastrophic consequences. #ux #design Sarah Federman 💯 Your periodic reminder that design is what ships, not what

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.