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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!

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@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.”

Carl Lentz and the Trouble at Hillsong | Vanity Fair

“You will know them by their fruit but the orchard is innocent, had no prior knowledge and is really indicative of nothing” - Jesus

(2) And Now We're Here | LinkedIn

McDonald's HQ Restaurant to Feature Global Menu

@vidhster 👀

(500) https://pangaro.com/littlegreybook.pdf

If you read one thing this year, make it this. #cybernetics #marketing #design #strategy #ux #contentstrategy #strategyops #operations #ops #personalization #leadership #management #conversations #CRO #hashtags

Strategic management - Wikipedia

Untitled (https://www.edsurge.com/news/2018-12-19-recalibrating-our-approach-to-misinformation)

"In the case of disinformation, critical thinking can do real harm" wrote @holden in a brilliant Edsurge post. Why? "Because the goal of disinformation is to capture attention and critical thinking is deep attention."

Experience curve effects - Wikipedia

Strategic management - Wikipedia

Value chain - Wikipedia

Honor the ADA: Avoid Web Accessibility Quick-Fix Overlays – Law Office of Lainey Feingold

Untitled (https://corneliux.medium.com/there-s-no-such-thing-as-system-designers-and-other-random-thoughts-on-the-scales-of-design-63d1dfb2885c)

"I firmly believe systems cannot be designed. At least not in the classic sense of the word we use at every other level below it." @corneliux

Twitch

Headless is a growing t̶e̶c̶h̶ ̶s̶t̶a̶c̶k̶ buzzword in ecommerce -- is it really the answer to all your problems? I like how @kvlly approached the topic in our stream last week

Accessibility auditing and pushing for more | AlastairC

Accessibility auditing and ego” ‟Accessibility auditing and pushing for more” A set of posts on overreach and understanding WCAG’s role.

Accessibility auditing and ego – Eric Bailey

Accessibility auditing and ego” ‟Accessibility auditing and pushing for more” A set of posts on overreach and understanding WCAG’s role.

Watermark #3 by moia | Free Listening on SoundCloud

Good morning, goodnight.

Shopify — Benedict Evans

Shopify’s platform has seen $120B in sales compared to Amazon marketplace at $275B. This goes to show competition in tech is about new ways to solve customer needs versus building a better mousetrap. Shopify empowers everyone else to compete with Amazon

Link Targets and 3.2.5 | Adrian Roselli

Regardless of what accessibility conformance level you target, do not arbitrarily open links in a new window or tab. If you are required to do so anyway, inform users in text. Real text, not via icons, not with ARIA.

(429) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-ladOjo1QA&t=1s&ab_channel=SystemsInnovation

This video explains the different areas and ideas in complexity theory

Adactio: Journal—Design engineer

A good post by @adactio. I definitely consider myself to be a design engineer—especially these days. Sure I can write JS, but I’m happy designing and more frequently, I do nearly all of that in the browser instead of static tools like Sketch

Promise theory - Wikipedia

@hpdailyrant There’s a whole area of Promise Theory @jeffsussna showed me a way he’s using that to help teams map their promises to users and to one another

Danner - Mountain Light II Black

Customer Value Charting: A Visual Tool for Customer-Centered Discovery & Delivery — Agile | DevOps | Lean | Product Discovery | Coaching & Workshops | Minneapolis

@tom_d_kerwin @hpdailyrant Specifically

(500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/18/you-watch-tv-your-tv-watches-back/

It’s common for today’s TVs to report back every *second* on what you’re watching. Imagine if your computer monitor did that.

(429) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlBjNmXvqIM

@kisielk @SwiftOnSecurity As always when someone snatches failure from the hands of certain success, keep this one in mind. It is my mantra:

The Presence Shortage | Daniel Gross

Danner - Danner - Men's Hiking Boots

Borsalino Crochet Raffia Traveler Hat

Mayser Gary Crushable Porkpie Hat

Men's Hats & Caps | Packer Hats, Bush Hats, Wool Caps & More

Where Do You Learn HTML & CSS in 2020? | CSS-Tricks

Holy moly, this is a incredible resource from @css to answer “How do I get started in web design”

Everything you know about "dark patterns" is wrong. - Clubhouse

Gonna talk friction, harm, UX anti-patterns & responsibility at 7pm EST on Clubhouse. Even if it's just me rage responding to so many *bad* conversations about this on your silly app.

Wenonah Canoe manufactures canoes and paddling accessories for paddle sports enthusiasts.

Lukas Oppermann Lead UI/UX Design • Design tokens — What are they & how will they help you?

Design tokens — What are they & how will they help you? Nice overview by @lukasoppermann:

Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/business/mckinsey-kevin-sneader.html)

Cancel Culture. BigConsultancy for Opioids edition.

CSS Logical Properties - Tutorial - Piccalilli

My all time favourite CSS addition that’s come around in the last decade is by *far*, flexbox, but a close second is custom properties. Check out this tutorial I wrote a while ago now: They’re v good for inclusive design.

Center of excellence - Wikipedia

Sheep Inc. - Knitwear for a new fashion future.

“The first carbon-negative knitwear on earth.”

Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/smarter-living/frustrated-at-work-that-might-just-lead-to-your-next-breakthrough.html)

“We normally avoid frustrated people” the author explains. However “when we’re frustrated, we reject the status quo, question the way things have always been done, and search for new and improved methods.”

Confab: The Content Strategy Conference - May 5–7, 2021

I'm so excited to share the news: I'll be on the virtual stage at Confab 2021 alongside my awesome buddies @KarenMcGrane Jeff @Eaton @ahaval and many more awesome speakers! #ContentStrategy #ContentDesign

28th February at 08:56

One thing I can’t help but notice is how efficiently I get through Twitter after abstracting it to Feedbin. I’m usually done and dusted with the latest tweets in 10 minutes. The Feedbin setup gives me back the control too. Tweets no longer feel like the…