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To Show the Value of UX, We Must Show the Work of UX by @jmspool

To Have and to Hold: Data in a Mobile World

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Live from my kitchen it's Saturday night!

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I’ve had a bit of a move around

Innovation is overvalued. Maintenance often matters more | Aeon Essays

Web superhero @dracos wrote up how he vastly improved the performance of the UK government Coronavirus data website. Spoiler alert: "The important thing is to have a resilient base layer of HTML and CSS, and then to enhance that with JavaScript."

@eaton Related:

“Problem-solving is always messy and most solutions are shaped by political agendas and resource constraints. The solutions that win out are not necessarily the best — they are generally those that are favored by the powerful or at least by the majority.”

A much-overlooked portion of design’s value is that poor design is very costly to an organization. Poor design can increase development costs through rework and waste.

Reflecting on the last couple months. Keep coming back to the wonderful experience of finishing a book with @searchlight5 and the rest of the @Amplitude_HQ teams. When vendor ebooks are a dime a dozen, I'm proud we put love and care into this (1/2)

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This is good.

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: