"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”
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'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
"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 ...
@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."
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.
"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...
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.
"I would argue that the idea of design approval is a relic of the past, that as web designers, we should be abandoning." — 5 Ways You Can Make Design Approval Easy
I haven't been able to do much writing about professional topics *at all* this year, so in this thread I will draw your attention to some greatest hits, in case they are helpful. First up. If you're going to run a survey, don't muck it up:
Guess what's coming out THIS month from our favorite author Allie Brosh?! 👀🎉 SOLUTIONS AND OTHER PROBLEMS...We're SO excited. September 22 cannot get here fast enough! Get your copy here:
Pay for value: Pay for the stuff you value. Cheap takes from the future to serve the present. By paying for stuff, you will allow the people who make it to live off their work rather than to live off advertising.
When it comes to online writing, my favorite example of a florilegium is @brainpickings which will forever be one one the best websites on the Internet.
If you'd like to join my quixotic strategy-slash-experiment of posting articles on Facebook that encourage critical thinking without playing directly into the pre-digested framing and futile meme wars. I'll thread a selection here. This is a good one
I just opened the homepage in a new tab and got caught in an A/B test where there is no more distracting hero creative video or primary navigation but there are still 3 competing and distracting animations above the fold.
For whatever reason, I started writing a book about relational databases a couple years ago. I never finished it, but it's about 13,000 words. It's about 75% of where it should be. I'll finish it someday.
After years of only having few recommendations for @superfriendlyco clients to manage design tokens, we decided to build one. It's called Arcade, and it's the fun way to create, edit, and manage design tokens. Give us your email if you want early access!
👏 @gruber on Facebook complaining about Apple doing the right thing: "The idea that we don’t dare do anything good for privacy that might reduce the efficacy of user-tracking ads because “pity the poor small businesses” is sophistry."
Three types of people who hold power in an organization: • Decision-makers – must be consulted or can make decisions themselves • Gatekeepers – control access to time or data • Makers – produce rare and valuable assets Great post from @tomcritchlow
Another shoutout to @dpatil for "Move purposefully and fix things" Also very important, but I think that purposefulness needs to come with a huge dose of diverse collaboration and pumping the brakes.