Weekend Reading – Fox News explains The Github

Design Objective § Not a lot of love for the new Yahoo logo. And there's a deeper lesson here about engineering and design. This article captures the essence of the problem, a common trapping when people with strong engineering background try to wing it: Yahoo's Logo Reveals

Weekend Reading – Kitkat wins the internet

Design Objective § If you're tasked with authoring HTML emails, great place to start is the Modern HTML Email e-book. A very fast read, covers all the key point, though not very deep. § Why cards are the future of the web: In addition to their reputable past as an

Weekend Reading – Informal, formal, real life

Design Objective § Gold. How to Work with Engineers — A Cheat Sheet for Designers: Or you can help every engineer you work with develop an appreciation for good design. How? Don’t just throw mocks over the fence—explain what you’re doing.> Teach them about your values, and why

Weekend Reading – The Creative Process

The creative process explained Design Objective § Payment Info is a single form field for collecting payment info. Inspired by Square Wallet. § Gina Trapani: Better user experience almost always means more developer effort and often more complex code. That's the right tradeoff. § jcoglan: Friendly reminder that "people with

Weekend Reading – I just fixed it!

So this happens to me all the time … Design Objective § UX Debt: UX debt is the quality gap between the experience your digital product delivers now and the improved experience it could offer given the necessary time and resources. Put another way, UX debt measures the number and magnitude of

Weekend Reading – The git wall

Design Objective § When software design has life and death consequences: Amber Alert: The Tragedy of Bad Design: Millions of people will seek and carry out instructions to disable Amber Alerts on their phones—no small feat considering how little people like to read instructions and go spelunking into the bowels

Weekend Reading – I … shave … Yaks …

Adam Keys: The first step is to admit you're shaving a yak. Design Objective § Brilliant and funny presentation by Aral Balkan: Superheroes & Villains in Design: Can design be so amazing that it makes us feel superheroic? Can it be so poor that it angers and frustrates us?

Weekend Reading — That's cute

From: Star Wars vs. Game of Thrones § 42 Rules to Lead by: 42 Know you’re not exempt. Would you work for yourself? If you wouldn’t, why should anyone else? On this score, Rosenberg says he writes a critical self-review every year. “It’s the only way to learn