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Untitled (https://airtable.com/shrk2GfK3Sfpu6CqX)

Experimenting with just using @airtable as an infographic repo. What do you think? Workable?

How to ensure user experience is a priority for your company

Emerging role in design orgs: The Super Senior Individual Contributor (Principal Designer, Design Architect) – Org Design for Design Orgs

Emerging role in design orgs: The Super Senior Individual Contributor (Principal Designer, Design Architect)

Mapping new ideas for the digital justice system - Government Digital Service

@joelanman For the digital justice map we specifically avoided any journey paths. Just showed that there are lots of activities. That are going on in different clusters. With different people involved.

The Core Model: Designing Inside Out for Better Results – A List Apart

Untitled (https://www.are.na/maxim-leyzerovich/journey-mapping)

@pontifexmaximu5 @joelanman this and all the linked subchannels is everything I’ve collected:

Untitled (https://www.figma.com/community/file/915106818892183760/)

I got tired of setting up grid systems for interface concepting, so I made a starter template with cross-device 8-point grids and 16-column layouts. There’s also a printable version with a dot grid. Hope it can be useful to you for sketching/wireframing:

Native CSS Masonry Layout In CSS Grid — Smashing Magazine

Native CSS Masonry layout in just one extra line of code? Yes, please. Here it is working with CSS Grid in @FirefoxNightly More in by @rachelandrew

Alpaca Survival Socks - PacaNaturals

SHOP ONLINE | Maine Alpaca Experience

Toggle Alpaca Pullover

Men's Ethical & Sustainable Organic Clothing | Indigenous

Alpaca Clothing for Men & Men Fashion Styles | Alpaca Collections

Untitled (https://www.apple.com/accessibility/)

Apple makes a big, sexy landing page highlighting the #a11y features built into its products. Not unexpectedly, the big sexy landing page has WCAG A and AA level #a11y conformance errors, making it less than completely accessible. (1/2)

My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be? – The Creative Independent

The withering email that got an ethical AI researcher fired at Google - Platformer

thing

Tools for Systems Thinkers: The 6 Fundamental Concepts of Systems Thinking | by Leyla Acaroglu | Disruptive Design | Medium

Cases & Accessories | Official Store | NOMAD®

Non Alcoholic Drinks | The World's 1st Distilled Non Alcoholic Spirits | Seedlip

Untitled (https://sariazout.substack.com/p/check-your-pulse-55?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMCwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTIyMjk2NzUsIl8iOiJ6SS81NCIsImlhdCI6MTYwNzAzNjQ0MSwiZXhwIjoxNjA3MDQwMDQxLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNTUyNiIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.8YYaYywFXjQVDTiig1UB2sGTRBj

Just a really great piece from @sariazout on the coming era of community knowledge networks:

Kevlar® USB-C Kevlar® Cable (3.0m) | NOMAD®

Cookie banners and accessibility. Yes, these do matter, especially if you… | by Sheri Byrne-Haber, CPACC | UX Collective

Untitled (https://www.patreon.com/kawaakibi)

Friday night, getting things done: if you're a supporter of @Kawaakibi on @Patreon, then we now have perks, including regular AMAs + membership of our @discord server. Not a member already? You can be in 30 seconds:

Untitled (https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/04/1013294/google-ai-ethics-research-paper-forced-out-timnit-gebru/)

If you're wondering what Google was so terrified of @timnitGebru publishing, I got a copy of the paper. Here's my best summary of what it says. Thank you to @emilymbender who coauthored the work for sending it my way.

We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here’s what it says – MIT Technology Review

Lavilin | Aluminum-Free Deodorant & All-Natural Personal Care Products – LavilinUS

Decoupled and Headless Platforms: Contentful vs. Drupal | Lullabot

Untitled (https://norabateson.medium.com/the-squishy-mud-of-warm-data-where-senses-find-senses-6888da67b941?sk=f862272e2f538bdffe66640cd8b5c739)

#WarmData A brief piece on Warm Data. "The way that sense is made is not explicit. The way that sensemaking is often communicated is. This may very well prove to be the most significant obstacle in the current explosion of sensemaking attempts."

The CSS Mindset | Max Böck

About these notes

A Counter-History of the California Ideology | Deterritorial Investigations

GitHub - batmany13/about-me: About my leadership philosophy and a little about me

Liminality - Wikipedia

U.S. Companies Should Think Twice Before Inflicting A Cookie Banner On Their Website Visitors. - Lexology

Toggle JavaScript - Chrome Web Store

Pro tip: install “Toggle JavaScript”. I reckon it’s my most used extension, not just for progressive enhancement stuff, but for also making news sites actually readable:

Untitled (https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/12/apple-introduces-airpods-max-the-magic-of-airpods-in-a-stunning-over-ear-design/)

Apple introduces AirPods Max. Active everything, $550. (Will be interesting to see where these fit in around quality stakes - Apple has never really tried to go high-end there)

Did Social Ruin the Fun?

Nonalcoholic Bar Getaway Opens in Brooklyn

Loyalty Tests — Real Life

"Platforms are the new public space, and subscriptions are the tax we pay to occupy it. This is almost enough to make one nostalgic for transactionality." Lots of great thoughts in this @_reallifemag piece on subscription/loyalty programs by @kneelingbus

Nielsen to overhaul flagship currency by 2024, but change will be slow | Campaign US

The news that Nielsen is making an effort to improve their abysmal data quality to guide ad spend for offline & online channels hits like Fyre Festival for ad tech. They'll need to move mountains to create a tiny fraction of the value they're hinting at.

Untitled (https://eand.co/our-challenge-this-century-is-giving-back-the-world-we-stole-f911b09d5c16?source=linkShare-41e01d325219-1607441791&_branch_match_id=link-864880435104503188)

“We humans think we’re very smart. We know how to build bridges and microprocessors. So what? Do you know how to build a rainforest? An ocean? I didn’t think so. Nobody does. We are destroying things far, far beyond our capacity to create.”

Calendly - Carly Ayres

Winter is coming. Kicking back off digital coffees to drag my extroverted self through it. Let's hang out?

So You’re Interested in User Experience (UX) Research? Thoughts from an Anthropologist Working in Industry | American Ethnological Society

Startupy

Beyond excited – and nervous – to share a veeeery early sneak peek of what I've been working on 👀🐇 🕳 Meet:

The surreal crazy, crazy world of branding - Gerry McGovern

Building Mental Model Diagrams. How to collaboratively make mental… | by Tiago Camacho | SEEK blog | Medium

Bed Botixs: The first multi service bed robot! | Indiegogo

This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a while.

Be Wary of Add-on Accessibility | Adrian Roselli

Navigating the Awkward: A Framework for Design Conversations – A List Apart

We’ve all been there. A client or coworker shows us this amazing thing they (and maybe their entire team) have worked on for hours or weeks. They are so proud of it. It’s new or maybe it just looks new. They may or may not ask you what you think—but you’re there to experience it. And your brain quietly screams.

Death of an Open Source Business Model | by Joe Morrison | Dec, 2020 | Medium

the new version of Mapbox GL JS will be proprietary

AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

#accessiBe Will Get You Sued | Adrian Roselli

I made some updates to my #accessiBe post (additions, no re-writes). The second: Even #accessiBe’s Latest Release is Inaccessible Look at that contrast! Look at those flags (you can only look as they have no alt attributes)! h/t @karlgroves

The Correspondent will stop publishing on 1 January 2021. We’d like to thank our members for their support - The Correspondent

Another great news publication shuts its doors. This cuts deep.

Miro | Online Whiteboard for Visual Collaboration

Some @MiroHQ activities I have been doing lately Link to board: I'll try to schedule another walkthrough if folks are interested.

Geri Reid - WCAG Accessibility Checklist

@feather I read through WCAG and wrote out design criteria in my own words so it made sense to me as a designer. Might be helpful to others!

CSS { In Real Life } | A Utility Class for Covering Elements

A Utility Class for Covering Elements, also with CSS Grid. By @MicheBarks.

‎Finding Our Way on Apple Podcasts

Human-centered UX practices don't do nearly enough to address trauma, power dynamics, and self-care. In the latest Finding Our Way, @jjg and I get schooled by @vcastillo630 on these subjects and much more. Apple: Website:

23–Make UX truly human-centered by addressing trauma, power, and other necessary and uncomfortable realities (ft. Vivianne Castillo) – Finding Our Way

Human-centered UX practices don't do nearly enough to address trauma, power dynamics, and self-care. In the latest Finding Our Way, @jjg and I get schooled by @vcastillo630 on these subjects and much more. Apple: Website:

HTML Design Principles

The HTML Design Principles “Priority of Constituencies” section states: “In case of conflict, consider users over authors over implementors over specifiers over theoretical purity.” 8/20

alt attributes like paragraphs - daverupert.com

The Syllabus

Syllabus Archive

What is DesignOps and Does Your Startup Need It? | First Round Review

Nice article on DesignOps from @alisonrand

Bye Google reCAPTCHA | Recommended Captcha Services

switching.software | Ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to well-known software

Get your work recognized: write a brag document

i think "get your work recognized: write a brag document" is one of the most important blog posts I've written. Building a culture where people encourage each other to track & celebrate their accomplishments is really powerful.

Death to Bullshit | Brad Frost

@cydharrell @gregpak death to bullshit

TBM 50/53: The Curse of "Success" Metrics - The Beautiful Mess

WeCommerce Holdings Ltd. Announces Closing of Qualifying Transaction TSX Venture Exchange:BRAC-P

Excited to announce that WeCommerce will begin trading on the TSXV under the symbol WE on Monday at 9:30AM EST. 🚀🚀🚀

(404) https://t.co/MZsE2lPC3G%E2%80%99s

Wow. I’m going to do a little thread on the many levels of awful here. Alt: “get a coronavirus test” page using Google’s reCAPTCHA asking for the site visitor to identify “crosswalks“.

System 02 — The Backcountry Hut Company

spent the day daydreaming about building a tiny house by a lake and trying to come up with reasons why not to

New tribalism - Wikipedia

Time to Say Goodbye to Google Fonts

“Google Fonts resources will be redownloaded for every website, regardless it being cached on the CDN. Self-host your fonts for better performance. The old performance argument is not valid anymore.” 👍🏻 Learned this a long time ago from @zachleat ’s work

Untitled (https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200305-why-your-internet-habits-are-not-as-clean-as-you-think)

This got buried earlier this year (story came out just as Covid was breaking in the West), but the invisible ways our digital behaviors contribute to climate change is one of the most important (and increasingly-relevant) issues of this decade - (1/2)

Synology Inc.

book notes | Derek Sivers

Mindwise: How We Understand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want - by Nicholas Epley

Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing API keys | Joe's website

This is unfortunate. I use the @goodreads API to publish my reading list on my personal website. I will likely abandon Goodreads over this, unfortunately.

The Backcountry Hut Company

Amplitude | Product Intelligence for Web and Mobile

Chrome is Bad

How to Meal Prep - Meal Prepping Tips, Recipes, and Ideas

10 of Our Best Tips for Meal Planning for One | Kitchn

Honest Security

xkcd: Dependency

It probably isn't the case, but I can't help but think of this XKCD at times like these.

Strategic Digital Gardening - Google Slides

Really enjoyed these slides on reframing digital marketing by @willak. H/t @tomcritchlow for the share:

Untitled (https://www.fourkitchens.com/blog/digital-strategy/drupal-can-be-user-friendly-for-nondevelopers/)

Great post by @nJim talking about the connection between the content models that drive a site, and the tailored editorial affordances that can make those models easier to manage!

Untitled (https://www.eypae.com/)

Years back, @webmeadow built this gloriously explainable CKEditor toolbar for one of our clients () — it let them build longform case studies w/embedded structured modules, with the same conventions they'd use to insert images or links.

Framing outcome-driven product bets

Ran this webinar last week and I thought it was decent ... more examples than usual. Available on demand. Framing outcome-driven product bets link:

iPhone 12 Pro Camera Review: Glacier — Austin Mann

iPhone 12 Pro Camera Review: Glacier Each year I look forward to Austin Mann's iPhone camera review to see where he went (Glacier National Park, MT). This year is no exception.

Cover Your Tracks | Self-Defense

(500) https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/our-phones-are-complicit-in-the-e-waste-surge%3A-that-needs-to-change-and-fast-2020-12-14

The poor, where the e-waste is dumped, suffer unquantifiable and sometimes irreparable damage. Many materials used in mobile devices have carcinogenic properties when mishandled, and in some instances complications like mercury poisoning can arise.

The Pareto Principle and Your User Experience Work | Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)

Another Lens - News Deeply x Airbnb.Design

Stewards over gatekeepers: Three Principles for Partnerships — Boye & Company

Another_Lens

Another Lens - News Deeply x Airbnb.Design

7 Ways to Analyze a Customer-Journey Map

5 Principles of Visual Design in UX

The Discovery Phase in UX Projects

Fraud Is Sapping Billions From Advertisers; There’s No Better Time To Fight It Than Now - CPO Magazine

* In 2023, the cost of ad fraud will balloon to $100 million per day. * About 18% of all ad impressions are never viewed by real people

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