Weekend Reading — Input -> Output

garywhitta "Haiku." Design Objective Everyone has JavaScript, right? A very handy chart! Comparing Apples and Oranges: A New Prioritization Framework for Product Managers Evaluating features based on expected/unexpected and low/high impact matrix. 7 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about Accessibility One of the most important

Weekend Reading — Long and perilous

tomgauld "Our journey will be long and perilous..." Design Objective First implementation of Material Design Feedly shares their experience implementing Material Design. Ex-Microsoft Designer Explains the Move Away from Metro I actually argued for top right. The issue with top right is that no one else does [it]

Weekend Reading — Just an exception

Just an exception they said… Design Objective I Paid a UX Expert $100 to Get Drunk and Evaluate Gizmodo's Design Drinking alone is the new usability lab. ibondare The road to hell is paved with clear requirements and poor domain knowledge Tools of the Trade Anecdotes about frontend

Weekend Reading — Max Headroom

The Definitive Oral History of 1980s Digital Icon Max Headroom Tools of the Trade Redis 3.0 release notes The poor, misunderstood innerText Explains the difference between innerText and the similar sounding but quite different textContent property. dffptch "A micro library for diffing and patching JSON objects using a

Weekend Reading — What could go wrong?

Gotham3 "What could go wrong?" Design Objective The best icon is a text label So let me repeat: don’t use an icon if its meaning isn’t a 100% clear to everyone. When in doubt, skip the icon. Reside to simple copy. A text label is always

Weekend Reading — Designer price list

Via Brilliant_Ads Design Objective Animation Principles for the Web Using animations itself, this article is both a great introduction to effective animation techniques, and just fun to read. QED Thinking of interfaces as sets of jobs As interface designers, it’s important that we not only put buttons and

Weekend Reading — How to backup a country

Design Objective The Web’s Grain Thoughtful and beautiful essay, you will not be disappointed. History of the Urban Dashboard #uiporn Printing Medium stories How Medium designed their print.css. The Apple Watch isn't an iPhone any more than an iPhone is a Mac — it's something

Weekend Reading — Wife Discovers Browser History

vruz Further adventures in multiple inheritance. Design Objective OneShot, a one week design case study Posting text as screenshots on Twitter is a horrible idea — not accessible, can't quote, etc — but you can't fight Twitter on this, might as well use OneShot. The design of this

Weekend Reading — Anonymous sources

HelenKennedy "Best reason to go off the record." Design Objective The Paradox of Empathy Product managers seem to expect a designer to walk up to a product, say something brilliant, and drop the mic. Experienced designers deeply understand a simple fact: design isn’t a deliverable, it’s