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The problem with "systems design" is the lack of formality and the excessive use... | Hacker News

Ah, I forgot that some of the people who get permanently stuck at the Senior Engineer level get very offended when told there’s a whole level of understanding they simply lack because there are no quantitative benchmarks. :)

Review: ‘Architects After Architecture: Alternative Pathways for Practice’ | by Dan Hill | Dark Matter and Trojan Horses | Dec, 2020 | Medium

My Difficult Relationship With Alcohol

The Digital Accessibility Maturity Model: Dimension #1 - Governance, Risk Management and Compliance - Level Access

Font & Technology Specialists | Monotype.

Discovery

User and Design Research

European Molecular Biology Laboratory | EMBL.org

elements.pdf

Elements of User Experience

Untitled (https://medium.com/inclusive-software/when-why-to-explore-the-problem-space-16068f1a1dbc)

I recommend that organizations sever their efforts at deep understanding from any design or dev cycle and let it run separately. Slowly. In small increments. With a cadence that makes sense for what you want to know and when you need to know it.

Project Type Badges

Cool project! → The idea is to provide README badges to indicate your current/desired project type, based the ontology of OSS projects that @nayafia lays out in her book.

Bitcoin_For_The_Open_Minded_Skeptic.pdf

George Mason - Wikipedia

only lengthy trip outside Virginia. Many clauses in the Constitution bear his stamp, as he was active in the convention for months before deciding that he could not sign it. He cited the lack of a bill of rights most prominently in his Objections, but also wanted an immediate end to the slave trade and a supermajority for navigation acts, which mig

UX Case Study: Process of Information Architecture | by Soojin Sielle Kim | Medium

My Helsinki

@CAldenJacobs @louisrosenfeld Thanks @CAldenJacobs! Happy to explore. On my inspiration list: the work of @Ideas_4_Change, #WeLiveHere community initiative in @Iamsterdam, the work of @myhelsinki - incl. #OmaStadi: participatory public budgeting and the new #helsinkifreedom campaign

He spent 10 days in jail after facial recognition software led to the arrest of the wrong man, lawsuit says - nj.com

He spent 10 days in jail after facial recognition software led to the arrest of the wrong man, lawsuit says

SMART goals are not so smart: make a PACT instead - Ness Labs

It’s about shifting your mindset from distant outcomes to present outputs. YES, I finally have a term this! I hate setting SMART goals or distant goals of any kind. They're deflating. I set PACTs instead. Thanks for the article @anthilemoon!

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

Crypto yes, but here is why it will not take over the world:

10 of the best Tony Benn quotes - as picked by our readers | Tony Benn | The Guardian

Link here: My own industry-politics guiding question for 2021 is: how can we create the context and conditions that make designers and cleaning/service staff feel it’s normal to see each other as coworkers?

Thailand dissident's abduction in Cambodia remains unsolved - Los Angeles Times

Goodhart's law - Wikipedia

Towards a New Information Architecture | by Christina Wodtke | Good UX / Bad UX | Medium

"Information Architecture is about making meaning out of piles of facts." - @cwodtke

Untitled (https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/Yamada-Lighting-Z-Light-Daylight-Z-108NB/dp/B082PWV4L7/ref=as_li_ss_tl?dchild=1&keywords=z-light&qid=1609325983&sr=8-3&linkCode=sl1&tag=cmod-22&linkId=d14c66ffdec77c589911914c0cea9245&language=en_US)

Random light recommendation for folks in Japan — these z-lights are fantastic; reasonably priced, well built, super super super precise and easy movement, I love 'em (but they don't seem to be available abroad?):

The Turing Test is obsolete. AI needs a new benchmark

The Turing Test is an example of Goodhart’s Law - When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. Turing assumed holding a conversation meant an AI as smart as a human, what we got instead is dumb AI being good at mimicking conversations

UsabilityHub | User Testing and Usability Research Platform

RemoteID_Final_Rule.pdf

In 2023, you won’t be able to fly most drones in the US without broadcasting your location - The Verge

Untitled (https://medium.com/butwhatwasthequestion/architects-without-architecture-9e9395dd9314)

Note that this piece 'Architects without architecture' is quite separate to the previous review of 'Architects after architecture' They share similar themes (+ names) but are different takes, different times, different authors.

TBM 49/53: Signals and Confidence - The Beautiful Mess

Final post arriving tomorrow... 52: Real Teams (Not Groups of 1 -Person Team) 51: Coherence > Shallow Autonomy 50/53: The Curse of "Success" Metrics 49: Signals and Confidence

Design Inspiration is Everywhere. UX Lessons from a Night at the Bar | by Vidhika Bansal | Muzli - Design Inspiration

Kevin Twohy

I reworked my site a bit over the holiday: I wanted to add a bit more color/excitement, focus more on plain-english descriptions and less on tons-of-mockups, and be a bit more explanatory/descriptive about the type of work I do. 👀🔗 ✌️

Untitled (https://bookshop.org/)

so why aren't more people buying from ? (I can't buy from it in Japan …)

Untitled (https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-5253-real-teams-not-groups-of)

Final post arriving tomorrow... 52: Real Teams (Not Groups of 1 -Person Team) 51: Coherence > Shallow Autonomy 50/53: The Curse of "Success" Metrics 49: Signals and Confidence

Untitled (https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-5153-coherence-shallow-autonomy)

Final post arriving tomorrow... 52: Real Teams (Not Groups of 1 -Person Team) 51: Coherence > Shallow Autonomy 50/53: The Curse of "Success" Metrics 49: Signals and Confidence

Rogue Amoeba | SoundSource: A Superior Sound Control

@craigmod It is truly a mystical button. Related: I have really enjoyed SoundSource for wrangling volume control & output control. It is a delight, and the only software I've found which enables volume control of multi-output or aggregate speaker setups in macos

Moving back home during the pandemic forced me to confront my dad's alcoholism | Anonymous | Opinion | The Guardian

This resonated with me on a personal level. We don’t often talk about alcoholism in Syrian society and growing up with it as a child was a bewildering and frightening experience

Optimizing Image Depth | CSS-Tricks

I've been on the Acorn train (macOS image editing software) ever since reading @meyerweb's mention of it. I like how it's just FAST and simple, so for my cropping/arranging/exporting stuff, it's a winner.

Acorn 6 | Full Featured Photo Editor for the Mac

Value.app

View of Hallowell, Maine | Important Americana: Furniture and Folk Art2021 | Sotheby's

The Best UX Design Tools You Need for Testing

Chuck Close on Creativity, Work Ethic, and Problem-Solving vs. Problem-Creating – Brain Pickings

Chuck Close on Creativity, Work Ethic, and Problem-Solving vs. Problem-Creating

Fixed vs. Growth: The Two Basic Mindsets That Shape Our Lives – Brain Pickings

Ambiverts, Problem-Finders, and the Surprising Psychology of Making Your Ideas Happen – Brain Pickings

Customer Journey Mapping: Your Definitive Guide

Value.app

The Beautiful Mess 2020

A collection of bookmarks

Grids Part 1: To grid or not to grid | Sarah Higley

Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.

Inspired by @hyumankind I'm moving a couple years of bookmarks to (I should be done by the end of the day!) I feel like when I bookmark something in the browser my journey with that resource ends.

Julie Chabin

I'll never be done "updating" my website so I might as well share it now:

2021: The Year of the Sustainable Data Centre - Techerati

In the US alone, data centres are expected to use 660 billion litres of water per year. Water is used for two separate purposes in data centres: generating electricity and cooling the facility.

Psychotherapy | Grzegorz Choinkowski

Logotherapy | Grzegorz Choinkowski

Now with Django! | Meta-rationality

(500) https://ontology.buffalo.edu/brands.html

The Reality of Brands: Toward an Ontology of Marketing by Wolfgang Grassl is perhaps the most important piece I've read supporting the business value of research, design (service, experience, product, etc.), and undiluted marketing strategy.

Thoughts on screen readers and image recognition - Tink - Léonie Watson

Thoughts on screen readers and image recognition

Vasque | Performance Hiking Boots and Hiking Shoes for Men, Women, Kids

The Fog of War - Wikipedia

Untitled (https://github.com/sponsors/tatianamac)

I’d like to spend this year building out resources like @SelfDefinedApp. Unfortunately I still have to live under capitalism. Working independently means I rely on one-off contracts and unsteady cash flow. If you’re able, please sponsor my work:

My stack will outlive yours

"My stack will outlive yours" — "The best tool is no tool, the best build step is no build step, the best update is no update. HTML gives us all that, and more."

Untitled (https://medium.com/@jmspool/the-powerful-ritual-of-daily-design-reviews-ef99844b0ff8)

Teams improve their capability through small baby steps. Even if it is for only a few minutes, implementing small daily rituals that put design at the top of everyone’s agenda is a step in the right direction.

UX Strategy: It's Hugely Important. Unfortunately, It's Never Urgent. — Creating a UX Strategy Playbook | USA, Europe & Australia | 2019

The tactical work of user experience design has the benefit of always being urgent and important. However, it doesn’t leave any room for our non-urgent, but equally important strategy needs.

Goodhart's law - Wikipedia

@johncutlefish We are in a moment in which many service/product/bizprocess developers are pressured with single-pointed conceptions of success, which creates perverse incentives with bad results for both the org and the world

Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/business/chase-ads-youtube-fake-news-offensive-videos.html)

Do Ads Work? An Inquiry. In March 2017, @sapna reported that @chase was running ads across 400k sites when they were alerted they were running on hate speech. So they hand-picked 5k sites & deleted the other 395k. They found NO change in performance.

Measuring design quality with heuristics | by Jasmine Friedl | Jan, 2021 | Medium

Pixels vs. Relative Units in CSS: why it’s still a big deal - 24 Accessibility

Untitled (https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2020/12/31/farrell-the-bias-problem-with-artificial-intelligence)

Hey all - I'm about to be on Minnesota Public Radio to talk about algorithmic bias and why it matters to all of us:

A Unified Theory for Designing Just About Anything | by Christina Wodtke | Medium

The Architecture of Information – Intriguing information structures from the web and beyond

Untitled (https://www.cia.gov/index.html)

The CIA is now a tech company.

Robin Rendle › Newsletters

★ Here’s a scrolling story ~thing~ I made about newsletters, writing on the web, and where we go from here

GitHub - philipwalton/flexbugs: A community-curated list of flexbox issues and cross-browser workarounds for them.

Eleganthack – Designing Business, and the Business of Design

Demand Refunds for Invalid HTML in Courses | Adrian Roselli

If you are in an online dev class or maybe a dev bootcamp and it teaches inaccessible practices, I think it is fair to demand a refund. And warn others away. It may be harming your longer-term skills and career growth, too.

Contextual ads | Dave Smyth

"If behavioural ads aren’t more effective than contextual ads, what is all of that data collected for? "If websites opted for a context ads and privacy-focused analytics approach, cookie banners could become obsolete…"

matt/dug: A global DNS progagation checker that gives pretty output. Written in .net 5 - dug - Kaijucode Git

Adactio: Articles—Design Principles For The Web

SWOT analysis - Wikipedia

How Does Discovery Lead to Successful Digital Projects?

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No one in Hollywood will release a film about the murder of #Khashoggi--really @reedhastings, @JeffBezos, @tim_cook, @RobertIger, @hbomax? None of you want to stream a Doc with 97% on @RottenTomatoes?! Idea: you all pay 20% & stream together on same day

44 Books By Women of Color to Read in 2021 - Electric Literature

This annual list by @rokwon is always incredible. Buy some books, learn some things, change your world:

Monolith Titan Conical Espresso Grinder – KafaTek

Two recent examples from the world of espresso… and - nothing else out there like either of them, both made by enthusiasts who just had to have them.

Decent Espresso

Two recent examples from the world of espresso… and - nothing else out there like either of them, both made by enthusiasts who just had to have them.

Untitled (https://tv.apple.com/movie/the-dissident/umc.cmc.4u4qfb4n4ii3mewajb7soy0ai?itscg=30200&itsct=tv_box)

Power. Money. Lies. Are you ready for justice? Watch #TheDissident, from the Academy Award winning director of Icarus, on @appletv today:

Lauren Serota: What organizations get wrong about design research

RT @s_DesignTools: A walkthrough in what Design Research means nowadays - touching upon distancing, practice maturity and data abundance - and what to stand for in our work. Thanks @serota for finding the perfect words

Untitled (https://www.whitehouse.gov/)

I don’t get it, can he not just stick a Wordpress instance on and blog on his own website to reach hundreds of millions of people using RSS?!

Untitled (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55598887)

Pay attention.

Bulletproofing Embedded Tweets | Adrian Roselli

Oh hey, yesterday I wrote about some good practices for embedding tweets in articles / posts, particularly geared toward making them accessible. Or available when a certain autocrat gets banned.

Books - JESSIE DANIELS

As white supremacists continue coups/militia actions & Tr_mp is banned from social media, folks are worried about the internet as an alleged free speech zone. This is a crucial time to engage the work of Dr. @JessieNYC — especially her book Cyber Racism.

Cork CNOC Trekking Pole, Single | Cnoc Outdoors

Cork CNOC Trekking Poles, Pair | Cnoc Outdoors

Untitled (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdqX4A_3-bA)

Your semi-annual installment of ... Hire More Designers, OK?

The Container Store x KonMari Collaboration by Marie Kondo | Official

I realize the irony of wanting to buy things from a brand that is all about decluttering. But as a fan of containers and the Konmari method, this new collaboration SPARKS JOY! I particularly like the Clarity collection. 😉

(500) https://behavioralscientist.org/there-is-more-to-behavioral-science-than-biases-and-fallacies/

"A widespread misconception is that biases explain or even produce behavior. They don’t—they describe behavior."

Brachistochrone curve - Wikipedia

(500) https://hojtsy.hu/blog/2021-jan-12/drupal-10-readiness-initiative-here-we-go-session-video-and-slides

The Drupal 10 readiness initiative - here we go; session video and slides now published

All design projects should start in a Google Doc | by Ted Goas | UX Collective

In this article, @TedGoas explains why every design project should start in a Google Doc.

Want a job? Pretend you believe in 'digital marketing'

Prudent answer: Massive fit. I think if we can apply artificial intelligence to the big data that comes from social listening we can understand everything. I see no need for any other form of research. It’s about turning insights into action in real time.