Weekend Reading — Track Changes

Design Objective Hamburger Menus and Hidden Navigation Hurt UX Metrics TL;DR Discoverability is cut almost in half by hiding a website’s main navigation. Also, task time is longer and perceived task difficulty increases. ignore the code: Input Masks: Violating User Expectations Don’t be too clever for your

Weekend Reading — The suffering of algorithms

Design Objective Typography for User Interfaces Fantastic read about typography, and a look at the future: In the future though, I imagine typefaces becoming more aware of their surroundings and starting to respond to a number of factors like viewport, resolution, type rendering engine used, ambient light, screen brightness and

Weekend Reading — git shower

@idiot "when your shower uses github more than you" Design Objective Technical and social challenges of conversational design I made my website conversational. Here is what I learned. Messaging Design Kit A design kit for Sketch, containing everything you need to craft rich messaging experiences. ‏@SoftwareFailed "Maybe

Weekend Reading — Square knot

Design Objective Building Products This is fantastic, go and read it right now. I can’t tell which is the best quote, so I’ll pick one at random: When exploring solutions for a particular problem, go broad before going deep. Brainstorm 10, 20, 50 solutions for the problem before

Weekend Reading — 79 degrees

Design Objective Jobs to be Done: from Doubter to Believer Fantastic presentation by Sian Townsend about JTBD, and how Intercom uses them to build a better product. Goes along with the book. According to the Apple world clock app, the time is 4:56AM and it's 79 degrees

Weekend Reading — Hodor

Tools of the Trade stylelint A mighty, modern CSS linter that helps you enforce consistent conventions and avoid errors in your stylesheets. Fizz Buzz in Tensorflow Funny response to a silly interview. Bill Wake: Got a LinkedIn endorsement for Subversion today. I was really happy until I remembered it’s

Weekend Reading — Wind chimes

paul haine "I’m so angry these mock ‘90s Lucasarts games by Andrew Scaife don’t exist" Design Objective Developers, Learn To Say No. Saying “No” is not the end of the conversation, but the start of an informed design: See what is happening now? A conversation, a

Weekend Reading — Design in the real world

Design Objective Tone It Down — Write for grown-ups Personality and humor great nice, but your app’s UI should first and foremost help users get the job done. Front-load the valuable content, then if you must, tuck something funny or cute. Guillermo Rauch: “Paste and match style” should be the

Weekend Reading — Cards against compilers!

Design Objective Have Software Developers Given Up? I think our industry has a real quality problem. I don’t entirely know what the solution is. Buttons in Design Systems 12 tips for setting up a system that endures. Tools of the Trade datamade/parserator A toolkit for making domain-specific probabilistic