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Jobs To Be Done: An Occasionally Useful UX Gimmick by @jmspool
Search API Synonym
@illepic I’ve fallen in love with this button aria-expanded + div.hidden combo. I first saw it in @heydonworks’s
First Rule of Usability? Don't Listen to Users
I wrote an article about #userresearch methods! Here are 13 tips to master the process: Hu…
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.