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

Weekend Reading — Now what?

Design Objective Designing a Better Notes App — Design + Sketch App Designing a simple note-taking app: from rough idea, through UX mapping, to low-fi UI sketches, and finally hi-fi interactive prototype. A* - A Truly Iterative Development Process In A*, the product owner has no vision of the solution, only a

Weekend Reading — What's the delta here?

How to Use Math Words to Sound Smart Design Objective Bots won't replace apps. Better apps will replace apps. Remember when on-demand/sharing economy was the Next Big Thing, and everyone went there, and then it turned out that it only works well in a few specific markets?

Weekend Reading — map/reduce Voltron

idiosynchris "Voltron: teaching kids distributed computing since 1984" Design Objective Why I love ugly, messy interfaces — and you probably do too Not all products benefit from ultra-minimalistic UIs: Products that solve big, hairy problems are life savers. I love using these products because they work so damn well.