Weekend Reading — All boxes are cat-sized

@coderzombie Can't stop laughing. Design Objective Steve Sanderson "A heatmap visualisation of where the door handle should be:" LiquidText Inking The Liquid Text demo video is brilliant. This is one of the most interesting, tech-augmented, user interaction I've seen in a long while. I&

Weekend Reading — #WFH

JOE.co.uk #WFH Design Objective How a Facebook Designer Thinks "Julie Zhuo describes how the development of new features starts with three questions: What people problem are we solving? How do we know it’s a real problem? And how will we know if we’ve solved it?

Weekend Reading — Thread

Jason Diller "Thread" Design Objective This site is “taking the edge off rant mode” by making readers pass a quiz before commenting Smart: "The goal is to ensure that the commenters have actually read the story before they discuss it." Manisha Agarwal Software is like a

Weekend Reading — Tornado full of sharks

You Had One Job "Don't be afraid." FYI I'm traveling and AFK, so no Weekend Reading next week. I'll do my best to catch up when I come back. And also, if you know anyone who would enjoy Weekend Reading, send them

Weekend Reading — Crashing buildings

Edwin van Andel "That moment when your building crashes..." Design Objective Case study: How complexity creeps in Adding enterprise features, realizing they burden product and support, without a debt on sales, and phasing them out. Design Checklist Google's design checklist for building conversational UIs. What we

Weekend Reading — Walks like a duck …

Santero "Huh. Man with dogs in his pockets walking his duck, which has shoes on" Design Objective Atomic Design by Brad Frost Brad Frost explains atomic design, and how to apply its principles to your very own design system. Designing for iPad Power Users If you are working

Weekend Reading — A solar system in motion

Jennifer Harrison You're looking at a video of FOUR directly-imaged exoplanets orbiting a star. You're looking at another solar system in motion Design Objective Making input type=date complicated Don't worry about "looks the same in all browsers", instead focus on "

Weekend Reading — In defense of snuggies

Shen Me. Every night. Design Objective PEENT PEENT So that got me to stop and rethink a few things: Like, 90% of infomercial style products were designed by/for disabled people, but you wouldn’t know that, because there is no viable market for them. THey have to be marketted

Weekend Reading — huge if true

12 Dog Thoughts Design Objective Erika Hall A designer is a person who organizes choices. The better you understand the range and implications of choices, the better designer you are. Lessons Learned: Why Newton Swears by Plain-Text Emails TL;DR users respond when the email feels like a conversation. The