Weekend Reading — All the bounces

Simon Kuestenmacher "Timezones of Antarctica. It must be a mess when all the staff of all arctic research stations want to organize a BBQ or at least a phone conference..." Design Objective Patrick Thornton This should be common knowledge: Designers are usually given symptoms, not actual problems to

Weekend Reading — Rainbows Logos

Rob Russell "Without comment" Design Objective Michael DiTullo Great example of an iconic design, from rough idea to production: Sketch, prototype, production. A sketch from Bertone, I presume by Marcello Gandini, of the Lamborghini Countach. The next image is a similar view of the 1971 Geneva show prototype,

Weekend Reading — Little Professor

Pulp Librarian This is the story of the 1970s great calculator race... (thread) Design Objective Are we designers shamelessly good at self promotion? What do tech designers write about? What do they read and share most? Posts about templates, news, case studies, etc get far more attention than essays about

Weekend Reading — Portable cookie technology

Ruth Ann Crystal, MD "To all of the haters that said this day would never come" Design Objective Why Small Teams Win And Bigger Ones Fail This is not so much about people as constraints, and I agree, step 1 is trim the menu: If you ever watched

Weekend Reading — Professional Goats

Businessweek "LOL" Design Objective Refresh This is what a modern browser should be. Adapt to multiple contexts, help you juggle/finish tasks, supplemental memory. Christy Allison 👍 We need design that is faster and slower. Faster for people who are trying to get things done, and slower for people

Weekend Reading — That pair of slippers

TAHKION "finally switched to emacs once and for all, can definitely see why this is by far the best text editor" Design Objective Yes, Alan, There Is An ROI For UX Design I find the hardest problem in product management is getting designers to think about business value.

Weekend Reading — Voldetort

Katie McLaughlin "I rated all the bee emoji. 🐝" Design Objective Building the Google Photos Web UI The design details that go into a user interface. Improving the usability of multi-selecting from a long list TL;DR When it comes to unfamiliar items it’s better to visually expose

Weekend Reading — Myers Briggs type HDMI

Glenda Adams "This took nearly 6 months, working on and off- so many little pixels to stitch." Tools of the Trade Christine Love So Vim ported to run in the browser: This is by far the best version of vim because they finally implemented the one feature that

Weekend Reading —  Highlight the Remarkable

Persian Rose "Animals who look like they’re about to release a chart topping single" Design Objective How to add product features without making it more complex Interesting idea. Is your design "default valid" or "default invalid"? The conversion rate for this version ended