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Quantitatively evaluate a product or service’s user experience by using metrics to gauge its relative performance against a meaningful standard #UX #benchmarking #metrics

starting today my book, Mobile First, is free for all online: thanks @abookapart!

I see my term “data literacy isn’t binary” making the rounds. So great! We should be talking more about how it isn’t @lukestanke. I wrote about it for the data viz topic of the week On @DataVizSociety - join us on slack while we talk about this topic.

The World Needs Designers.

lightly scrubbed version of this guide in Google Docs

Read his words in full:

MUST-READ: “Empathy is the first ingredient to successful web governance.”

Woohoo! Let's "see" each other online and reassure ourselves that the values that attract us to UX are still key to the future (and that we can level up our skills at acting out these values)

Related: Medium is not *your* website.

Yesterday, we had 650+ UX leaders in a zoom call talking about why UX outcomes make better goals than business outcomes. It was quite a hoot. You can see the recording. It’s in our new Leaders of Awesomeness community. Join here:

"Your technology strategy needs to be continually informed by the needs of your editorial team and audience, not by the latest tech, or what promotions the big platforms are offering now." @ftrain is a smart human and y'all should read him, because, YUP

This is great but what would be greater is a natively totally ad-free experience as a subscriber:

The decline of RSS and Atom is one of the great tragedies of the modern web.

I've been publicly wondering for a while why the spread of the pandemic is so uneven. This paper has me pretty persuaded that the Japanese public health people were right, and spread is entirely dominated by a few superspreading events.

The most satisfyingly 2020 outcome would be if Trump was right and this proved completely effective

I think we can all agree that learning about your client is key. Using tools like stakeholder interviews can help you truly understand your client and develop products for them and their users. Learn how to use this tool today!

🦊 Oh my GOODNESS, responsive design turns ten today! Here’s how it happened, and who helped *make* it happen:

Richard Hamming's life was a study in the importance of having a vision of greatness––and being relentless in the pursuit of it. The Art of Doing Science and Engineering, with a foreword by @worrydream, is now available. 📚🔬💻

TOMORROW on AM I THE DESIGN ASSHOLE? We’re so excited to have special guest @round join us! Get your ticket.

Encouraging a Culture of Written Communication

📝New blog post: Why don't we personal website owners collect all the feeds we generate at one central place, for example on a /feeds page? A place for RSS feeds of your blog posts, favorited items, or even tweets. Like this:

📝New blog post: Why don't we personal website owners collect all the feeds we generate at one central place, for example on a /feeds page? A place for RSS feeds of your blog posts, favorited items, or even tweets. Like this:

From Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "The Other America." Read it here: . Watch it here:

From Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "The Other America." Read it here: . Watch it here:

#Drupal9 Top 9: Drupal, the most powerful enterprise open source content management system, is launching the latest—and most comprehensive—upgrade to its popular software today. #CelebrateDrupal #D9LaunchDay

Related - Speaker for the Dead is one of those fiction books that will give you a few dozen Evergreen Notes for your Zettelkasten. Would absolutely be the last rite for a new religion where boldly seeking truth is spiritual path

So who should be the censor? It certainly shouldn’t be any single individual. It shouldn’t a government, nor a church, nor publishers, nor writers’ associations, nor any institution with a vested interest (which rules out all institutions). The only entity I’m willing to trust with the critical judgement of public words is the public as a whole, just as the First Amendment says. But I’d like to do much more to empower all members of that public both to choose what they hear and to understand their responsibilities when they speak out. I’d like children to be raised not only hearing about freedom of expression, but understanding the social consequences of that expression. I’d like them to be awash not in mindless media outpourings, but in wonderful examples of precise, considered, socially uplifting words. I wouldn’t prohibit them from encountering any publication, but I would do everything in my power to encourage them to judge publications and to close pages, turn dials, and eliminate destructive speech by the most powerful means possible — their own refusal to give it their attention.

"At no point did I even consider that some people have to be solution forward. That here I was, a white man, opining about the benefits of starting together, but I wasn't seeing the whole picture."

“The truth emerged only slowly, and was, in its own slippery way, stranger than than fiction.”

One of the core reasons why we don’t have a lot more quality Web design is the organizational excuse that we’re different, our audiences are different, we’re exceptional. - Gerry McGovern -

✍️I started out to write a gentle remembrance, and a raw reliving came out instead.

📢 The Web Vitals extension is now in Chrome Web Store: ~ instantly measure quality signals key to great UX in one-click. Measures: 🎨 Largest Contentful Paint 👆 First Input Delay 💨 Cumulative Layout Shift

@jensimmons All browsers: contaaaaaainer queeeeerieeees!!! Safari specifically: ambient badging (add to home screen) for progressive web apps.

Accessible Data tables - a round-up of some reading I've been doing for client project. All glory belongs to @aardrian, @stevefaulkner and @hj_chen.

I'll be hosting and facilitating a discussion about this topic -- product data literacy -- today at 12 noon pacific. Feel free to join and here different perspectives on this question.

I recently encountered this idea that exercising spatial memory and orientation might be crucial to our brain's health(Wayfinding pg.18). Makes me wonder how Google Maps could be transformed into a "complimentary cognitive artifact".

we have relaunched another website. it is @bustle, at . the team killed it and i am very proud. go and check it out. you will see a fresh look but there is also exciting new technology! bustle on the card system! wow! go team!

Coming up in 20 minutes. Philadelphians talking about design. You know you need this in your day.

"Drupal and the secret of my success" /cc @spf13

"The process model resulted when I started doing content models with my clients but someone else would be doing the interface design and engineering..." @carriehd in a #contentstrategy conversation: #design

imo the fundamental problem in america right now is the same one i wrote about “startups.” people don’t believe in unmediated reality, think everything’s manipulable, or veneer, a “stunt”

Ten principles for good design

OK so apparently Apple sells the braided Thunderbolt 3 Pro Cable for $129 which looks promising

Been working out some accessible web component patterns. This modal seems to check the important boxes, I hope. Planning to clean these up into separate repos and blog soon.

In his 2019 @framerloupe conference talk, @maxvoltar described product design as being like a dance. It's easy to do if there's just one of you, but requires more co-ordination the more of you there are.

It has taken a while (years!), but finally the videos from the By Design conference in Bratislava are online:

🚀 It's live! My new website is now up & running: . I do frequent redesigns but it's been a while since I've felt this proud over shipping a personal site.

Product design principles (or, in short, design principles) are value statements that frame design decisions and support consistency in decision making across teams working on the same product or service. #UX

The new @iawriter. Now with Style Check.

"Our digital projects could be delivered faster, come under budget and provide better results by introducing a discovery phase upfront." - This post shows you how to make it happen.

What happened when the Dutch public broadcaster replaced cookies and tracking with a privacy-focused system? It started making more money. (And the ads worked really well.) It's alllllmost as if behavioral targeting is slowly killing digital media ...

Love this example of thinking in public from my friend @kmonson: and just all round smart thinking. ("meeting version" lol)

@TatianaTMac Oh my goodness this. And Awwwards & most web design inspiration sites that I'm aware of these days 😭 Any recommendations for design inspo sites that prioritize accessibility and web standards? I still look at sometimes, but it seems less active

Nielsen: "Users often choose system functions by mistake and will need a clearly marked "emergency exit" to leave the unwanted state without having to go through an extended dialogue. Support undo and redo."

@CAldenJacobs Yup! Design for Real Life should be required reading before you're allowed to open Sketch or Figma.

Next time you’re asked to explain what content designers do, this diagram — based on a user centered design process — will help. Thanks, @Minette_78!

Sylvan Esso: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

Fast Fashion could not have the same corrosive impact without digital. Instagram Culture is ravenous for the new, for the fast, for the flashy, for the fake.

RT @reichenstein: This wasn’t easy to write it to publish. But, today, I just had to hit that publish button and get it over with:

Is there a design studio equivalent of ?

"Any particular technology should only do what only that particular technology can do. -- Take JavaScript, for example. It feels “wrong” when a powerful client-side JavaScript framework is applied to something that could be accomplished using HTML."

Ran across this site from 1998 that's full of observations on what makes Hypertext writing special. The now popular "gardening" metaphor of websites makes an appearance along w/ a unique critique of orderly navigation, among other neat ideas.

My time with InVision is finished and this event caps an incredible five year journey working with hundreds of designers, design leaders, product and business leaders, and engineers. If you're looking for a design leader, I know a great candidate...

I just learned about #VentDiagrams and they’re my new fave thing. An awesome way to explore and express complexity, polarities, and tensions.

The Correspondent introduced its story "Blockchain, the amazing solution for almost nothing" via email with a bold headline: BLOCKCHAIN IS TECH BS. AND THE MARKET FOR THAT IS HUGE Consider this tweet an endorsement of The Correspondent and this article:

Investing is known to be about betting on the right horse (the business), the right jockey (the team), and the right track (the category). If you get all three, then you win — but apparently the jockey isn't as important as we like to think.

It is up to the designers (and everyone else) who are privileged to ask the hard questions about the work that we are doing for profit. We are both privileged to be able to question it and, precisely because of that privilege, in a place where we must.

React Native

How to run a premortem workshop

Building #LEGO 10252 Volkswagen Beetle tonight on my Instagram story

Why Are Most Organizations Stuck Solving The Same Content Problems As 20 Years Ago?

https://moz.com/researchtools/ose/

If you run Windows servers, I’ve had great experiences with this tool which automatically manages LetsEncrypt certificates forever.

Was able make this a bit easier to read (first version was basically a transcription). 50 Short Product Lessons

Summary of @visakanv's video "cultivate your taste" 🧵👇