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Discovery Phase: What Is it and Why Should You Care?

"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.

Can Killing Cookies Save Journalism? | WIRED

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 ...

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

Media Queries

@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

10 Heuristics for User Interface Design: Article by Jakob Nielsen

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."

A Book Apart, Design for Real Life

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

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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!

(429) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZJ9ynWJY78&feature=youtu.be

Sylvan Esso: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

Fashionwaste - Gerry McGovern

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.

http://www.nngroup.com/articles/ux-without-user-research/

On Monopolies, Apple, and Epic – iA

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:

Type Foundry Directory

Is there a design studio equivalent of ?

Adactio: Journal—Principle

"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."

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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.

(500) https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/au-revoir-invision-voici-ce-que-la-vie-%25C3%25A0-offrir-greg-storey

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...

What is this about? — Vent Diagrams

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

Blockchain, the amazing solution for almost nothing - The Correspondent

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:

Tooltips & Toggletips

Right Horse, Right Jockey, Right Track | John Maeda’s Blog

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.

(500) https://www.dnb.com/perspectives/power-of-data-podcast/power-of-data-podcast-episode-41.html

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.

HOW TO GET THE WRITING DONE: Scott Kubie at PUSH UX 2019 on Vimeo

fig-0.1-workflow-planner-worksheet.pdf

How to learn JavaScript | Derek Sivers

React Native

Articles, Links, and Tools From Online Together: Front-End Focus

How to run a premortem workshop

Microsoft Design

Login • Instagram

Building #LEGO 10252 Volkswagen Beetle tonight on my Instagram story

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

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

SEO Consulting & Certification | Stuntdubl.com Hit by traffic…not cars.

How digital telecommunication firms can win | McKinsey

Our Top 7 Must Have, Paid SEO Tools

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

Certify Your Windows IIS Website - simple free certificates powered by Let's Encrypt

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

50 Short Product Lessons (Latest) - Google Docs

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

(429) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9IRhdE7yM8&feature=youtu.be

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

Being prepared is overrated: start before you feel ready - Ness Labs

Ref - Great piece by @anthilemoon on how there is no such thing as the right time to start and why you should start NOW.

5 Ways You Can Make Design Approval Easy

"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

Kintsugi | John Maeda’s Blog

"Repair is the creative destruction of brokenness." —Elizabeth V. Spelman #kintsugi

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Next up: The thing so many people get the most wrong about design research, especially organizations that are just getting started with it.

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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:

Solutions and Other Problems | Allie Brosh

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:

Material Design

For multi-platform design system documentation, find inspiration from: #clarity2020

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For multi-platform design system documentation, find inspiration from: #clarity2020

Committee | Acceptable Ads

Standard | Acceptable Ads

We believe in the power of an engaged and empowered public. | Outrider

Collins Thesaurus | Synonyms, Antonyms and Definitions

Earth Class Mail | Secure Virtual Mail and Addresses

Affordable Online Mailbox | Traveling Mailbox

World Wide Worth - Gerry McGovern

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.

Homeowners, Renters, and Pet Health Insurance | Lemonade

Content + UX

Airtable - Content + UX Resources

Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity – Brain Pickings

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.

The Epic List of Content Strategy Resources

Just checked a few old links in my old 'epic list of content strategy resources' and, reader, I'm sad to see so many of them 404ing

How Pseudoscientists Get Away With It - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus

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

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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.

A Non-Developer's Guide to Relational Databases

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.

Arcade

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!

Yubico | YubiKey 5C NFC | Two Factor Security Key | USB-C & NFC

We need more inclusive web performance metrics | Filament Group, Inc.

"We should want to know if our patterns are optimizing for visual use cases at the expense of others…" @scottjehl

TeamPrompts

Ami, the tiny cube on wheels that French 14-year-olds can drive | Road transport | The Guardian

Daring Fireball: Dickhead of the Week: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri

👏 @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."

Why Goodreads is bad for books

Library JSON - A Proposal for a Decentralized Goodreads

Navigating Power & Status

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

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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.

Low-Contrast Text Is Not the Answer

Alternatives to Low-Contrast Text (Video)

Low-Contrast Text Is Not the Answer

a16z Podcast: The Myths of Heroes in Entrepreneurship - with Guy Raz - Andreessen Horowitz

Data, Information, Knowledge, & Wisdom

Mental Model Musings

theWay

(404) https://runway360.cfda.com/designers/willie-norris-x-outlier/ideas-for-spring

In one of the personally wilder turns in an absolute absurd year @Outlier is on the New York Fashion Week calendar:

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AI content-deletion on social media platforms could stop journalists investigating war crimes, report: - via:@pressgazette

We Are Not Users | The MIT Press

Why Designers Need to Write — Anton Sten — UX-lead

siteInspire - Web Design Inspiration

Geri Reid - UI & UX Designer, London

Geri Reid - Forms best practice

Operator says…

Teddy Baldassarre

What Is Strategy (and Why Should You Care)? - Brain Traffic

Measure conversions while respecting user consent choices

YouTube brings back more human moderators after AI systems over-censor - The Verge

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In the "where have you been all my life" category: @newsproduct launches a much-needed platform for product thinkers, "the missing link to creating sustainable journalism in the digital age." Especially excited to see @becca_aa leading the way. Congrats!