Weekend Reading — Keeping an eye on it

Alta. man mowing lawn during tornado was 'keeping an eye on it' 😮 Design Objective In the future, design principles won’t be about design Leveling up: But as the industry evolves and concepts such as simplicity, consistency and accessibility become unquestionably valuable, design principles will be more about

Weekend Reading — Summer's back!

Christoph Niemann "Summer's back!" (more fun 2.5D art on his Twitter) Design Objective Product Design Exercises We Use At WeWork Interviews The "Dribbblisation of Design" gets us pretty, but useless products. Here are 17 exercises you can do to hone your product thinking

Weekend Reading — :x is the hardest problem in computer science

Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim Design Objective Better Form Design: One Thing Per Page A case study in improving UX by focusing on one task per page. And 16 reasons why you'd want to do that: 16. When we’re designing a complex flow, breaking

Weekend Reading — It works!

Ⓒⓐⓡⓞ "the best laptop stickers 😂" Design Objective Craft by InVision Build prototypes directly inside Sketch. Ben Schwarz: Real world connectivity: Beyond the bubble "We need to stop optimizing for $3000 computers on a fast connection." Josh Clark Q: Where's the fold in web design? A:

Weekend Reading — Just patch it

Josh Gondelman "At the very least, you've got to use a smaller font, guys." Design Objective Design Better Data Tables This article is an illustrated collection of data table design patterns: Good data tables allow users to scan, analyze, compare, filter, sort, and manipulate information to

Weekend Reading — How likely are you to recommend?

Colm Design Objective Meetup: A Usability Case Study Tweaking and fixing usability issues in the new Meetup app (ps: this is a passion project, not affiliated with Meetup). Mobile First, Desktop Worst Mobile-first is not a license to over-simplify, just like desktop-first is not a license to over-complicate. Designing forms

Weekend Reading — A handle on this

Hsing-Hui Hsu "I thought I had a handle on this" Design Objective Information Architecture. The Most Important Part of Design You’re Probably Overlooking. Indeed: Tips for Creating Good, Clean Information Architecture 1. Be very clear about what’s important (and what isn’t). 2. Think in terms

Weekend Reading — Easy schleping

Biisuke Ball's Big Adventure Part 2 Brilliant. Design Objective Everyone is a designer. Get over it. Exactly: Whether you like it or not, whether you approve it or not, people outside of your design team are making significant design choices that affect your customers in important ways. They

Weekend Reading — Burger wars

Downtown Josh Brown "I found it. The coolest dog of all time." Design Objective Factory vs. Studio Pick the right start conditions, the rest will follow: The first time I did this activity, I had no idea what to expect, but the results blew me away. Start conditions