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Your All-In-One Content Design Tool.

“Put content at the heart of your design process.” Intriguing! Introducing punkt, a suite of content-focused UX tools. P.S. The little guy down in the corner is familiar to me.

The Web Is a Customer Service Medium (Ftrain.com)

I said this in a panel discussion earlier, but if the fundamental question of the web is "Why wasn't I consulted?"* then I think the fundamental question of #civictech is "Why can't we just...?" *from this 2011 @ftrain piece (that you should read)

The Myth of a Perfect Design | Scott Berkun

We're all striving for perfection but the truth is in design you never quite get it.

25—The Reckoning – Finding Our Way

"Leaders are orchestrators of systems, and systems instantiate knowledge as information architecture within them. So, the IA that gets embedded and coded, baked into your systems, becomes the way that the organization understands the world." @jjg

Accessibility and web performance are not features, they’re the baseline | CSS-Tricks

One of my favorite things about workin’ at Sentry is *constantly* talking about performance. It's how we design stuff, how we build stuff, how we refactor things. So many companies don't get it: fast ain’t a feature, it's what good software is

Untitled (https://medium.com/mule-design/research-maturity-in-five-questions-df7042507de8)

If your organization is asking "but how do we evaluate our research practice?"

Bauhaus - Wikipedia

Your Interactive Makes Me Sick - Features - Source: An OpenNews project

Designing Safer Web Animation For Motion Sensitivity – A List Apart

Trusted Brands | Union Square Ventures

McNamara fallacy - Wikipedia

Jootsing: the art of jumping out of the system - Ness Labs

I recently learned a new word: “jootsing” — a systematic method to foster creativity by breaking the rules. Learn more 👇

Uncanny valley - Wikipedia

Raising your Digital Quotient | McKinsey

@johncutlefish That was probably when Mckinsey built its digital transformation services and all other consultancies followed:

Presentations — Benedict Evans

What Agency Of Record (AOR) Means & Why It Matters

Timetable | Musica nova Helsinki

The @MusicanovaHel Xenakis Listening Room opens at Kulttuurisauna next Wednesday 3.2. at 16:00 🎛👉 Bookmark the full program 2.2.-10.2. with links to streams 👉

Xenakis listening room | Musica nova Helsinki

The @MusicanovaHel Xenakis Listening Room opens at Kulttuurisauna next Wednesday 3.2. at 16:00 🎛👉 Bookmark the full program 2.2.-10.2. with links to streams 👉

Untitled (https://amplitude.engineering/how-were-building-accessibility-into-amplitude-s-color-system-bb960de25aa5)

Rare that i’m excited about a blog post about colors, but it’s cool to see @Amplitude_HQ doing things to help those of us who are color blind better read their data!

Schismogenesis - Wikipedia

Organizational metacognition - Wikipedia

Deutero-learning | Organizational Learning

Heuristic - Wikipedia

From Versailles to Cybernetics : California State University, Sacramento : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Archive

You can listen to From Versailles to Cybernetics as a lecture or read the short version as a PDF by searching for the title. It's also available as part of a collection of essays in Steps to an Ecology of Mind. Listen:

From Versailles to Cybernetics : California State University, Sacramento : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Archive

GregoryBateson.FromVersaillestoCybernetics.pdf

McKinsey & Company - Wikipedia

Untitled (https://ejcj.orfaleacenter.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/1972.-Gregory-Bateson-Steps-to-an-Ecology-of-Mind.pdf)

Here's a direct link to the PDF. From Versailles to Cybernetics is page 475-483. It's a quick read.

Right-to-left Styling

Do yourself a favour. If you write HTML and CSS, then read . In particular, read . Big mental model shift to naming margin, padding, etc as logical properties than presentational. So, not 'margin-left', but 'margin-inline-start'

Right-to-left Styling

HonorHealth: Making healthy personal - Phoenix & Scottsdale

Data Growth: VaynerCommerce

Primary Clothing: Brilliant Basics for Baby & Kids

Hotels & Resorts | Book your Hotel directly with Marriott Bonvoy

Customer Experience Management Case Study Examples | Medallia

Specialty Coffee Roasters | Online Coffee Subscription | Coffee Education

Coffee Roaster - Brewers, Subscriptions & Brew Guides - Blue Bottle Coffee

Blue bottle—because in spite of the equal parts annoying and almost thoughtful customer experience which is clearly KPI and growth driven, I still get my coffee—and the coffee is good.

Wildly Appropriate – by Dan Klyn

Warm Understanding – Wildly Appropriate

The Real Name Fallacy - Coral by Vox Media

The folks at @coralproject have aggregated a lot of that excellent research (and done some of their own)… is an excellent starting point if you run into folks boosting "just make everyone verify their real ID" as a fix.

Untitled (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAeEpbtHDPw&feature=youtu.be)

@skamille Obligatory Silicon Valley moment that epitomizes this

Bureau Veritas - Wikipedia

definitely worked for them at coria

Murmuration: A Stunning Animated Poem About Our Connection to Nature and to Each Other – Brain Pickings

Knowing the science behind something beautiful doesn’t rob it of enchantment but “only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe”.

Designing Freedom: The 1973 CBC Massey Lectures : Stafford Beer : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

@apenwarr @CAldenJacobs Stafford Beer's 1973 Massey lectures are free here: lucid explanation and a few a-ha moments.

"GPS" At The Scale Of Your Living Room - So What? — The Understanding Group (TUG)

If You Can’t Measure It... Then All Is NOT Lost - Metrics and Product Management

Report: Majority Of Psychological Experiments Conducted In 1970s Just Crimes

dscout.com | dscout | Flexible, remote, in-context user research

Jamra Patel: Kigelia

From Mollie Ennis: I have a professor who has done a lot of work with non-western font development, I think their mission would really interest him and he might have something to offer? He's done some work with Arabic... mostly African dialects, but might have some insight!

web.dev

@skullface @Shopify does!

Images and video

@skullface @Shopify does!

Butterfly effect - Wikipedia

Chaos theory - Wikipedia

Untitled (https://polaris.shopify.com/content/alternative-text)

are there any other content style guides (as part of a design system) that talk about alt text specifically? i think @shopify polaris is the first i’ve seen:

Reading and Writing in an Egyptian Prison - Believer Magazine

“What are you in for?” “For writing, sir.” “It says here ‘gross violation of decency.’ That means you raped or assaulted someone.” “No, sir. It was gross violation of public decency.” “Not a woman?” "No, sir. Just the public.”

Running a Successful Membership / Subscription Program — by Craig Mod

I really enjoyed @craigmod’s reflections on crowdfunding his work: One favorite detail comports with my experience: not feeling “beholden” to members, but that they “formalize” my activities—a sense of seriousness and earnest responsibility.

Daily Harvest | One-Step-Prep, Chef-crafted Food Built on Organic Ingredients. Delivered to You. Food that Takes Care of You.

The Beautiful Mess 2020

Waking up from the dream of UX | Peter Merholz

Source: notes on the wonderful Finding Our Way podcast

Untitled (https://www.lullabot.com/news/lullabot-officially-becomes-employee-owned-company)

We're officially 100% employee-owned! 🙌 Creating a culture of ownership has been a focus for years, and now it's become reality. Find out more:

Untitled (https://tomkerwin.substack.com/p/how-much-research-is-just-enough)

Also liking @tom_d_kerwin's graph on design research effectiveness. In my experience most companies get stuck on the left had side of the curve. Those that escape almost always swing quickly to the right. Few spend any meaningful time in the sweet spot.

How Versailles Still Haunts the World | Public Books

“Qanon” is Propaganda, and we know who’s responsible | by Daniel Morrison | Noteworthy - The Journal Blog

Cybernetics — A Definition

Rethinking Design Thinking — PICNIC '10 — Paul Pangaro

What is conversation? How can we design for effective conversation?

(429) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxxpnX6X_e4&feature=youtu.be

Lecture #2 from the @si658 IA class I teach @umich @umsi

(429) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtPw2YO3g5k&feature=youtu.be

ICYMI Lecture #1

What is hCaptcha?

words we don't have

Method

Service Design Tools | Communication methods supporting design processes

The Specializing Master in Service Design - Politecnico di Milano

Target Journeys

System Loops

The Cognitive Bias Codex

Beckman Coulter Diagnostics | Beckman Coulter

Practicing IA

Plain Language Summit 2020 – Digital.gov

Guides Training Course

Usb Tethering Cable | Area51 Tether Co.

Very long USB-C

History | IDEO | Design Thinking

Cybernetics, AI, and Ethical Conversations – Design+Conversation

War pigeon - Wikipedia

Scientific management - Wikipedia

Untitled (https://www.designmattersmedia.com/podcasts/Mike-Rigby)

“I think design at its best is when it's generous, when it goes beyond just the normal constraints of design to really help people. That's what drives me in my career.” Design Matters at 16—Mike Rigby:

My setup and what I use - Page - Piccalilli

desk now

Joyce Carol Oates — A Writing Icon on Creative Process and Creative Living (#497) – The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss

This is from a fascinating conversation between her and @tferriss about writing, revising, and the importance of reading.

WHCM and System Colors | Adrian Roselli

In Windows High Contrast Mode, Firefox 85 and Edge 88 add a backplate to text over images. IE11 dumps background images. All three dump background colors. You can override the behavior in IE11 and Edge, but might get contrast issues.

Untitled (https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/02/coronavirus-pandemic-bhutan/617976/)

“People say the COVID disaster in America has been about a denial of science. But what we couldn’t agree on is the social compact we would need to make painful choices together in unity, for the collective good.”

Untitled (https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-tragedy-of-legible)

“WebMD is the Internet's most important source of medical information. It's also surprisingly useless. Its most famous problem is that whatever your symptoms, it'll tell you that you have cancer. But the closer you look, the more problems you notice.”