Labnotes
February 17th, 2019 7 min read

Weekend Reading — How to finish an argument

Rebecca Mix "my coworker has this hanging by her desk and I cannot stop laughing" (source) Design Objective 4 Reasons Why You Should Design Without Color First 🤔 Using B&W as constraints for your early design iterations: When you start designing keeping the B&W color

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February 9th, 2019 6 min read

Weekend Reading — Can't Unsee

1969 & 70 - Bell Labs check this photo album Design Objective Can't Unsee Fantastic game. If you're a developer working to bring designs to life, and struggling with the finer graphics, this is a good way to train your design eye. Freddie Iboy Thread: I&

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February 3rd, 2019 5 min read

Weekend Reading — I Do The Dishes

Ryan Creamer created the most wholesome Pornhub channel. Design Objective Nina Alli "Sometimes we forget who our user is" (source) Jeff Chang Right size your A/B tests: A/B testing best practices should change as a company grows: 👶: Do not A/B test, will not get stat

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January 26th, 2019 6 min read

Weekend Reading — Peanuts and Flakes

Peter Bukowinski "Chaotic neutral" Design Objective The ghosts of technology in today’s language Explores the origin of words/terms that we use figuratively, but once had a literal meaning. For example: Both radio and TV stations still ask us to tune in, even though tuners don’t

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January 13th, 2019 3 min read

Weekend Reading — Does this bring me joy?

Design Objective Michael Bolton Hits nail on the head: 25. In most user stories, nobody is ever interrupted, distracted, naive, confused, under pressure, impatient, disabled, outside of wireless access. Nobody makes human mistakes. Nobody closes the damned laptop lid. The characters in user stories might as well be drones, robots.

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January 6th, 2019 5 min read

Weekend Reading — Keep The Space Shuttle Flying

41 Strange "Joseph Ducreux (1735 –1802) was a French painter who is known primarily for his unorthodox self-portraits" Design Objective How the Great Recession influenced a decade of design The relationship between the economy and how things look: Consumers’ growing interest in used fashion — which means more people

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December 30th, 2018 5 min read

Weekend Reading — Tank Sinatra

Karl Sharro "The first instance of humans sharing pictures of their food with friends on their wall." Design Objective Consistency in Design is the Wrong Approach Consistency can be a design trap: When you think about consistency, you’re thinking about the product. When you’re thinking about

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December 8th, 2018 9 min read

Weekend Reading — Cat In The Middle attack

Tom Eastman I die. Design Objective The State of UX in 2019 Where to begin? I thought this would be another "hot UI trends for 2019 that will make you look cool to your Dribble friends", but this article is much better than that. It talks about the

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December 2nd, 2018 7 min read

Weekend Reading — Gentle bump

Scott Jon Siegel 🤯 Design Objective Jared Spool Point that's often lost in the org chart: Adrienne Porter Felt Who counts as a family? According to @cvspharmacy, all parents must share the same last name as their child. Some developer added an if-check, probably without thinking about it too

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