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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

Untitled (https://uniform.hudl.com/components/buttons/button/code/)

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

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

Untitled (https://toggl.com/)

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

Untitled (https://medium.com/@dpatil/ethics-data-science-ff21d0c29346)

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:

Untitled (https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/ai-content-deletion-on-social-media-platforms-could-stop-journalists-investigating-war-crimes-report/)

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

Untitled (https://medium.com/@beccaaaronson/why-i-quit-my-job-to-launch-the-news-product-alliance-a3694a5f8ab5)

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!

Untitled (https://www.macrumors.com/2020/09/24/microsoft-office-2021-no-subscription-required/)

Refreshing:

How To Say No: 5 Steps To Stop Being A People Pleaser : Life Kit : NPR

The first tip: get some data. 🙌

An Introduction to Multi-Platform Design Systems | dbanksdesign

Request Map for https://www.katefarms.com on Friday the 25th of September at 5pm

(500) https://modify.video/

- A purely browser-based privacy-first video tool capable of performing tasks like converting, compression, etc. without uploading your files using #WebAssembly.

Jesse James Garrett: experience design and information architecture resources

Jesse James Garrett: ia/recon

Jesse James Garrett: Visual Vocabulary for Information Architecture

How to write concisely - DESK Magazine

Your data model is terrible! Let me show you why. | MidCamp 2020

Did you miss Kris Vanderwater of @acquia presenting "Your data model is terrible! Let me show you why." at #MidCamp 2020? Well good news for you, the recording is here:

All your video needs in one place | Clipchamp

CI and CSS – iA

Design is How it Works – iA

modular, systematic order

The Interface of a Cheeseburger – iA

Infographic: 50 Cognitive Biases in the Modern World

(500) https://articles.uie.com/a-proven-method-for-showing-the-value-of-good-ux/

A great user experience only comes about through constant diligence and attention. If the organization isn’t paying attention, it’s unlikely they stumbled on one by chance.

Resilient Web Design—Chapter 6

The Empty Box | CSS-Tricks

I have resigned as the WordPress accessibility team lead. Here is why. | Rian Rietveld

Improving a digital ecosystem through content strategy — Josh Tong

Ecosystem maps can make the complexity of large organizations' content publishing efforts more accessible without getting bogged down in the details. @JoshLTong's new post looks at how to generate and use them…

Expressive Design Systems — Design System Talks

Design System Talks

Untitled (https://www.figma.com/blog/when-fonts-fall/)

Hey nerds, if you need a half-hour away from everything: Start reading this article on font-fallbacks, pause midway through to refill your coffee or tea, and then keep reading. Go slow. 🛻🪰🥷

Structured Data Cheat Sheet

Faculty — Websites you can rely on

💖 Ayo I made a new website! With my coworkers @FacultyCo! It's sick! And I'm proud of it! I'd love to hear what you think! 💖 👨🏼‍💻

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“The past, present and future of UX writing and content design”—whew! This interview was the first time I’ve gone on the record about several of these topics. Thanks to @JasperPlatz at @stringshq for writing it all down so I didn’t have to. 😇 Enjoy!

Eight Qualities of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations

Untitled (https://www.drupal.org/node/3173719)

Enabled native lazy-load by default for images

Why Mark Zuckerberg’s 14-Year Apology Tour Hasn’t Fixed Facebook | WIRED

Earlier of piece of mine that touches upon the misleading use of the word "community" that often dominates the way Facebook talks about itself. Communities have reciprocal rights and responsibilities. Facebook groups are in-group/out-group strife engines.

Blocks library | Reflex

CSS Guidelines (2.2.5) – High-level advice and guidelines for writing sane, manageable, scalable CSS

On the Design Systems Between Us · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer

✍️ New post about @beep’s latest talk: On the Design Systems Between Us

Design Systems Repo | A Collection of Design System Resources

Alla kholmatova

Design Systems For Figma: Bringing Context To Design Systems