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CiteSeerX — The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information

That whole 7 +/- 2 argument for navigation, items in a list, menus, etc., is bunk. Original research paper: Miller talks about abstract concepts (linguistics, chunking) not visible item counts. Anyway, debunking resources: 🔖

Are your Anchor Links Accessible? | Amber Wilson

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@blankenship @ChappellTracker Several years ago, I riffed a bit on a new app icon for them with @craigmod, and we were deeply passionate about making this magical Earth bambino the app icon. They didn’t agree, unfortunately.

Scaling Engineering Teams via RFCs: Writing Things Down - The Pragmatic Engineer

Have you seen good examples on (native) mobile planning/spec docs? I'm putting together a template along the lines of ones I've used/seen used when doing RFCs (). If there are existing (public) examples, I'd love to point to them.

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Make your content accesible by writing meaningful image descriptions, or alt text, with this great in-depth article from @access_guide_ 👉

The most difficult thing for a Design Executive to accept… | Peter Merholz

The most difficult thing for a design executive to accept... ...is that they must be an executive, a business leader, first, and a design leader second.

what_researchers_mean_by_2017.pdf

Five ways the ad industry can be a better place to work, according to its rising stars

How violence silently starts by rejecting other people’s identities - The Correspondent

Powerful feminist voices have been denying trans women’s experiences or painting them as menaces. But we should remember that violence against vulnerable people starts by labelling them as a threat.

(500) https://github.blog/2020-12-17-no-cookie-for-you/

More anti cookie banner momentum: Cookie banners are awful. Using inessential cookies is more awful. Cookie banners aren't even necessary or legally required (even in the EU, unless you're using creepy cookies and violating member state regulations).

Steve Jobs talks about managing people - YouTube

Surah Al-'Ankabut - 29:45 | Quran.com

According to the Quran, ritual prayer - salah - is supposed to "prevent immorality and wrongdoing" - إِن الصلاة تنهى عن الفحشاء والمنكر. But that's only if you're doing it right - most of us aren't, and are in denial that it's not working.

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Karen McGrane - Wikipedia

What’s neat is when your page is deleted from Wikipedia they talk about why you’re not worthy, I almost like this better

History of the Web – World Wide Web Foundation

On this day in 1990, the day the world's first website and server went live at @CERN.

DITA Official | Perfecting The Art Of Eyewear

Glasses. Needs more research.

Darwin Information Typing Architecture - Wikipedia

Single source of truth - Wikipedia

Service-oriented architecture - Wikipedia

Front Page - OASIS Open

Requirements Identification - Fit/Gap Analysis

Gap Analysis: Guide and Template

An uneven history of content strategy | by Rahel Anne Bailie | Medium

Homepage - Content Science Academy

Homepage - Content Science

Product - ContentWRX

Content Inventory and Analysis Made Easier | ContentWRX Audit

The Content Advantage (Clout 2.0): The Science of Succeeding at Digital Business through Effective Content, Second Edition

What is ‘ContentOps’ (Content Operations) and why should you invest in it?

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On privacy: "When a company does the right thing for its users, EFF will stand with it, just as we will come down hard on companies that do the wrong thing. Here, Apple is right and Facebook is wrong." (Yeah, but what about those small businesses?!)

Introduction to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture

x-dita1-pdf.pdf

example

DITA for the Impatient

Simon Collison | This used to be our playground

This post by @colly is 💯. Comparing personal sites to tending a garden is spot on. Even though I'm on holiday for Christmas break, I'm looking forward to spending some more time working on my site. It's so relaxing and satisfying

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Only recently started using JetBrains Mono as my code editor font, and I love all the details. The use of ligatures to combine glyphs is a joy:

The PM role in a lean and agile world

Designing Web Content for watchOS - WWDC 2018 - Videos - Apple Developer

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On the limits of user-centered design, and how we might integrate systems thinking into our practices to create ethical systems that work better for everyone. It was a pleasure to write this with @devinmancuso, @lishubert, and @DianaSonis

Substack’s view of content moderation - Substack Blog

HTML Over The Wire | Hotwire

A Bhutan Adventure Documentary | Crossing Bhutan

The Modern Enterprise | Wing Venture Capital

Real Mentorship Starts with Company Culture, Not Formal Programs

Design ROI - Measurable Design by Antti Pitkänen - Issuu

Digital Transformation: A Comprehensive Introduction

Untitled (https://ethics-of-ai.mooc.fi/)

The Ethics of AI, a free online course created by the University of Helsinki.

The First 1,000 Days, a beat by Irene Caselli — Slow News

📢🧵 My writing has a new home! It's called The First 1,000 Days. Think reproductive rights, pregnancy, childhood, parenthood. And also play & love. I'm building it with ❤ while officially jobless. So please subscribe and let's create it together! +

Feed | LinkedIn

(500) https://mobiledevmemo.com/2021-predictions-for-mobile-marketing/

I’ve only seen one writer, @eric_seufert, give thoughtful analysis of how Apple’s iOS 14 privacy changes will impact the app advertising landscape. Every other journalist has basically been regurgitating talking points from the same players.

Information literacy - Wikipedia

How Claude Shannon’s Information Theory Invented the Future | Quanta Magazine

Reverse Engineering the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine - Articles

DNA is the legacy code of earth-resident life, evolved over billions of years of development, made with rarely refactored cut and paste parts, rife with abandoned features, and possessing an epic lack of documentation. But it works.

(500) https://jessicajburton.com/assets/videos/DavidChapman20201221.mp4

📺 Two hours of me talking about 🌏 cults, 🌊 death, 🔥 an unrequited crush, 🌬 rationality, 🌌 and blueberry jam. An AMA skillfully facilitated by @ssica3003, with excellent questions and discussion from all participants—thank you!

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Forgot one! 🔊 White noise machine is great once you get used to it, prevents unwanted wake ups due to household noise/city noise etc. I like this one:

Beginner's Guide to SEO [Search Engine Optimization] - Moz

The future is for riders - Zoox

Why are mRNA vaccines so exciting? - Harvard Health Blog - Harvard Health Publishing

How to do Discovery and Delivery at the same time … with Pivot Triggers - Tom Kerwin

Wardley map

Magnolia | Inspiration for Life and Home | Chip & Joanna Gaines

Open source ecommerce strategy & technology analysts | Acro Media

Matomo Analytics - The Google Analytics alternative that protects your data

MURAL + iOS | MURAL

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Advanced Tech is *not* a Substitute for Policy/Regulation Case study on what causes tech companies to act faster: 5 years of warnings about escalating genocide vs. threat of significant fine? (A: the fine) Many AI ethics issues are Human Rights issues

(500) https://scripting.com/stories/2002/01/09/kevinKellyTheWebRunsOnLoveNotGreed.html

I forgot I wrote this 18 years ago for the Wall Street Journal: "The Web runs on love, not greed."

Is there a reason there isn't a profile switcher UI (other than about:profiles) : firefox

about:profiles

Being Glue — No Idea Blog

On ‘modified human agents’: John Lilly and the paranoid style in American neuroscience - Charlie Williams, 2019

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Quick review: ‘ ‘Architects After Architecture: Alternative Pathways for Practice’, edited by @roryhyde @HarrietHarriss and @marcarobe

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

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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

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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