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oh bless you, @adactio
How Dishoom, London’s beloved restaurant group, scales with quality: Co-founder Shamil Tha…
When Media Cries Wolf
always been intrigued by eink, have never seen it used particularly well — this looks like it has potential:
How to use CSS Scroll Snap
e. When researching this post, I discovered that Bongard problems were first popularized by a brief discussion in GEB—which I had entirely forgotten.2 It turns out that Hofstadter’s analysis develops some of the same themes as “How To Think”; I return to them in this post.3
Summary: To decide whether to visit a page, people take into account how much relevant information they are likely to find on that page relative to the effort involved in extracting that info.
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
Recording of the chat available here:
Live from my kitchen it's Saturday night!
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)
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