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Untitled (https://sf.gov/news/city-administrator-carmen-chu-announces-cyd-harrell-new-chief-digital-services-officer)

I'm thrilled to announce @cydharrell as our next Chief Digital Services Officer. Cyd’s wealth of experience in government technology and user-centered design will help us strengthen and transform how we connect services directly to people. Read more:

Alpaca Wool Outdoor Clothes For Men | Base Layers, Bottoms & More – Arms of Andes

Barracuda R2 - Family Packraft – Micro Rafting

Barracuda R2 Pro - Adventure Race Packraft – Micro Rafting

Untitled (https://kk.org/thetechnium/103-bits-of-advice-i-wish-i-had-known/)

I just turned 70. Here is my advice which I wish I had known earlier.

Untitled (https://annehelen.substack.com/p/the-librarians-are-not-okay-a43)

“Passion jobs are prime for exploitation.” — @annehelen

Joys of Two-Person Packrafting and the Best Two-Person Packrafts Review | TO THE MAX

Tailscale raises $100M | Hacker News

Tailscale raises $100M to do what any Hacker News reader could have done in a weekend

Bixpy J-2 Outboard Kit | Electric Marine Motor

Paratrooper Pro | Montague Bikes

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

New citibike silverbacks dropped today:

Untitled (https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2022/04/anchors-away)

If you haven’t read @mikeindustries’s thoughts on what Twitter could look like under Musk‘s leadership, it’s well worth a read.

A Dao of Web Design – A List Apart

“The control which designers […] desire in the web medium, is simply a function of the limitation of the printed page. We should embrace the fact that the web doesn’t have the same constraints, and design for this flexibility.” —@johnallsopp

Appropriate, Inc. — Home

My Camper Journey - Chris Coyier

My Camper Journey

Buffalo shooting victims | 10 dead, 3 hurt | wgrz.com

I am beyond sad and angry reading about the lives of the people killed — how most of them were over 60, how they survived cancer, how they fed communities. All dead, gone because we don’t take white supremacy seriously or treat it as the terrorism it is.

Untitled (https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-4852-premature-convergence?s=w)

"a bias for action is a bit different than premature convergence. We may have a bias to act, experiment, & test assumptions. But that does not mean we are limiting options. By acting quickly and decisively, we may be leaving room to pursue MORE options."

Deceptive Design – formerly darkpatterns.org

@candiwrites Not an article but changed their name from ‘dark patterns’ Although they don’t mention why this is harmful, they say that it is to be clearer and more inclusive.

Untitled (https://medium.com/@ignaciaorellana/how-to-share-research-in-design-systems-e4cb6b95e6a7)

I’ve written a blog post with @Amy_Hupe and @cjforms about why sharing research on patterns and components in design systems matters, and some tips on how to do it.

Docs · Tailscale

Great news everyone! Tailscale's docs team including Walter P, @rosszurowski, and @MayaKaczorowski have completed the biggest reorg of our documentation since I disorganized it back in 2019. Try it now and learn about features you never knew existed!

(500) https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVOxWsa2E=/?share_link_id=337835678286

Wondering how this might be turned into an activity. Feels like giving things a name might help? Miro:

McKinsey & Company - Wikipedia

@inkblurt @scottkubie @steveportigal @McKinsey Right there with you. Definitely not benign

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This house is next level

“Design System in 90 Days,” a workbook from SuperFriendly

Have you tried to make a design system but ended up with a library that no one uses? Our new @superfriendlyco “Design System in 90 Days” workbook helps you avoid design system graveyards and create a design system that lasts. Available for purchase now!

A manager's main responsibility: good taste - apenwarr

Moore's law and iPad-sized "retina displays" - apenwarr

Books that explain (parts of) how the world really works - apenwarr

Miniver Cheevy: Being a systems (over)thinker

@johncutlefish This is so exceedingly useful that I took the liberty of transcribing a copy where I would have it handy:

(500) https://www.getrevue.co/profile/disruptingsystems/issues/introducing-disrupting-systems-913007

So as some of you know, I’m doing a “thing”. It’s the first of a few things that I’m launching this year. If you’d like to know a little bit about it follow the link below 👇🏼 And feel free to follow the Twitter account @disruptsystems 🙏🏼

Reflections on software development from anywhere on an iPad

@apenwarr @segphault This is my workflow

Human Interface Guidelines - Human Interface Guidelines - Design - Apple Developer

Wonderful touches in the new Human Interface Guidelines abound; fantastic resources on inclusivity, onboarding and AR featured. And seems like the sections are colored after a familiar rainbow color scheme…

Human Interface Guidelines - Human Interface Guidelines - Design - Apple Developer

📣 Brand new Apple Human Interface Guidelines! 📣 That’s right, we’ve completely redesigned the HIG to be more cross-platform, easier to search, and completely reorganized from high level design principles down to low-level component guidance.🧵

Lewis Sectional | Joybird

The Ones by CW&T

A nice page of good tools:

Content strategy is not just one thing - kubie.co

"Your company can have content strategists, content designers, UX writers, information architects, content managers, and more. Trying to apply a one-size-fits-all job title to anyone that does any kind of content work at all is unnecessary and unhelpful."

No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons » The Jovian Duck: LaMDA and the Mirror Test

“If an AI passes the Turing test, it fails. If it talks to you like a normal human being, it’s probably safe to conclude that it’s just a glorified text engine, bereft of self.”

Why it's time to update our language about bad design patterns by Amy Hupe, content designer.

I’ve written about why we need to change the way we describe bad design patterns - and what to say instead. Thanks to @candiwrites and @CuriousScutter for making me aware of this issue in the first place. ⚠️ Content warning: racist language

Brandolini's law - Wikipedia

TIL: Brandolini's law "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than is needed to produce it."

Let a website be a worry stone. — Ethan Marcotte

(500) https://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/smalltalkq

@Carnage4Life Sounds like they’re posthumously ripping off Aaron Swartz without saying as much and without the context

Quantifying and Comparing Ease of Use Without Breaking the Bank

(500) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andyfitzgerald_structuredcontent-headlesscms-crossplatform-activity-6955216892072456192-K-pb

"As for web “pages,” they’ve been a good metaphor to help us get our heads around the mind-blowingly surreal fact that we now have so much knowledge instantly available at our fingertips. But it’s time to move on."

noho move™ Chair - Dynamic, Ergonomic Chair That Moves With You | noho | noho

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@apenwarr The boxiness is their new "design language". Like Volvo's from the 80s.

Everything I know about marketing I learned from the 1990 movie “Crazy People.” - Signal v. Noise

(403) https://gusto.com/company-news/2022-RISE-report

RISE (Representation, Inclusion, Social Impact, Equity) is key to our mission of building a workplace we can be proud of @GustoHQ. As part of that commitment, we release an annual report to keep us on track. Read the 2022 RISE Report:

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Bass Harbor Head Light Station, Maine Prints available at link in bio: Canon EOS R 16mm @ 8s, f/16, ISO 100 EF 16–35mm f/4L IS USM 6-stop ND filter

AI-Generated Images from AI-Generated Alt Text — Adrian Roselli

“AI-Generated Images from AI-Generated Alt Text” My attempt to use AI to demonstrate the problems with relying on AI. An exercise for people who can see the imagery, though I hope the alt text is useful (feedback on alt text always appreciated).

Use the active voice to transform your design system documentation by Amy Hupe, content designer.

“Use the active voice to transform your design system documentation”

A final goodbye – On my Om

It has been a tough day. I returned from the funeral of a dear friend. Everyone has a different framework for handling grief. Writing allows me to cope with loss, sadness & pain. Today, I share my story about @vgill, who passed away last week. RIP!

Brooklyn Bar Menu Generator

This is my new favorite generator

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"Longtermism" is a moral perspective that says "Future people count. There could be a lot of them. We can make their lives better." According to William Macaskill as expanded in this recommended interview.

Your Work is Starstuff

Knowledge retention is key for product development “Here I was thinking that all my work had died when I stopped working on it. But in reality, it remained valuable to others and would outlive me through their work.”

Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/14/business/worker-productivity-tracking.html)

Productivity tracking is on the rise in the American workforce, with penalties from lost pay to lost jobs. But are these new clocks even accurate? by @jodikantor +me, produced by @alizauf and @iamrumz

Color and Contrast.com

(500) https://www.slideshare.net/webchickenator/webchicks-personal-user-manual

A fun thing we did at work today was share "personal user manuals" that talk a bit about who we are, how we like to work, what gets us excited, and what bums us out. (Shout-out to @PracticeLibrary for the nice write-up/template!) Here's mine! :D

Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds | Vi Bilägare

Affordance! Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds | Vi Bilägare

Untitled (https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-08-17/cdc-director-announces-organization-shake-up)

Even being a "science-based, data-driven" org, doesn't guarantee a continuously learning org. “We saw during COVID that CDC’s structures, frankly, weren’t designed to take in information, digest it and disseminate it to the public at the speed necessary"

Micromobility: The Obligatory Origin Story

“Similar to how Steve Jobs helped to bring the power of computers to a personal scale, micromobility gives people the freedom of urban mobility. So that’s the birth of the word micromobility.” The latest by @asymco: The Obligatory Origin Story

All communication is lossy | A Working Library

Wrote about how adopting the mindset that all communication is lossy paradoxically makes it less lossy:

Skateboard, Bike, Car. Building Products The MetaLab Way | by Andrew Wilkinson | Medium

Untitled (https://vikushavas.substack.com/p/slaying-in-this-economy?s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=direct)

i wrote about taking a break from new york, melting down about capitalism and getting out of my flop era

‎Design Matters with Debbie Mil

“I would suggest to everyone is to learn history. A couple of studies suggest that learning history, learning about discrimination in the past, helps us see it in the present & be able to perceive it & understand it better in the present.” —Jessica Nordell

Untitled (https://contentrules.com/is-structured-content-a-hammer/)

Is Structured Content a Hammer? Spoiler: No. It's a toolbox. And I completely agree! via @contentrulesinc

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EPUB version of Abby Covert’s new book:

Samsung Internet 19.0 Beta is Now Available – Samsung Global Newsroom

New antitracking tech in Samsung's latest web browser. My take: Everybody sees Chrome as as laggard here, and this is the way to differentiate and appeal to browser users. Curiously, Samsung shows it blocking 68 tracking attempts on Samsung's own website.

Untitled (https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Augmental)

The magic of Twitter: this tweet incited a visit to the extremely interesting @augmentaltech. They're a young hardware company working on a lightweight retainer which offers a tongue-trackpad and 6-axis motion sensing. Notes on possibilities:

The new dot com bubble is here: it’s called online advertising - The Correspondent

@Iwillleavenow Appears it’s based on surveillance advertising investors’ profits and marketing budgets.

42 - Chris Coyier

42

Don’t think to write, write to think - Herbert Lui

“Writing is not the artifact of thinking, it’s the actual thinking process.”

Untitled (https://www.vice.com/en/article/z34zb8/credit-karma-hurt-peoples-credit-scores-using-dark-patterns-ftc-alleges)

So many thoughts …

Typography — Shopify Polaris

We've also shipped a new alpha Type component. Previous Type components were only used 8% of the time in custom admin components. The new Type component has a bigger range of sizes and styles to address those gaps.

Understanding Speed and Velocity: Saying "NO" to the Non-Essential - Farnam Street

The Focus to Say No - Farnam Street

(500) https://doriantaylor.com/at-any-given-moment-in-a-process

I started The Nature of Software shortly after Alexander passed away on March 17, when I realized that while we in software love design patterns, you see very little talk in the industry about what he did *after* patterns:

At Any Given Moment in a Process - by Dorian Taylor

Electric Bike, Stupid Love of My Life — by Craig Mod

(500) https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/13/23349876/the-verge-website-redesign-new-newsfeed-blogs-logo

Congrats to my former pals at @verge on the launch of their ambitious site redesign, which is aimed at building community and fostering conversations (and maybe convincing you to spend a little less time on Twitter)

(500) https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/14/23353375/canva-visual-worksuite-tools-new-google-and-microsoft

Projects have scope creep; companies have… focus creep?

Untitled (https://www.intercom.com/blog/the-end-of-navel-gazing)

Thanks @justinmfarrugia for sending me this talk/article from @Padday with a more realistic perspective about a designer's role in an organization which isn't emphasized enough.

Generating powerful insights through contextual inquiry Simple

"UX researchers often fall into a trap — we rely too much on familiar techniques like interviews and usability tests. In our experience, the bulk of key insights come from observing users in their work context." Great guide from @Aartitoday

Adobe snaps up Figma for $20B, taking out one of its biggest rivals in digital design • TechCrunch

It’s been incredible to use Figma since it’s early days and watch it totally take over the industry to become THE tool in a few short years. It really showed the power of the web + collaboration would win. amazing exit for an amazing team

Arc from The Browser Company

@alexstran @browsercompany ! Unfortunately I don't have any invites right now :(

Design for Cognitive Bias Resources Sheet - Google Docs

RT @movie_pundit: Here is a list of resources I've collected over the years to help you learn more about inclusive design.

EightShapes > Design Systems > Components Blog & Other Writing

LibraryThing | Catalog your books online

@librarythingtim @jeffmacintyre So *this* explains why looks the way it does on my phone 😂 (Also, hi from a fellow Portland Mainer!)

Research Questions Are Not Interview Questions — Mule Design

RT @mulegirl: A huge source of confusion in design research is the difference between research questions and interview questions. This costs time and money and I rarely see other people talking about it.

What Is Reading For? | RIT Press | RIT

Sustainable Data by Jan Chipchase What is Reading For? by Robert Bringhurst

Sustainable Data – Studio D

Sustainable Data by Jan Chipchase What is Reading For? by Robert Bringhurst

About Us | Modern for the Real World | Blu Dot

Smithey Ironware Company | Premium Cast Iron Cookware

A comprehensive guide to design systems | Inside Design Blog

Design Systems 101

Anti-Patterns - eBay MIND Patterns

A short history of color theory - Programming Design Systems

OODA loop - Wikipedia

The Nature of Software • Buttondown

Surprised, unsurprised, and delighted by the patterns which connect Christopher Alexander's Nature of Order, Bateson, cybernetics, etc. I haven't read Nature of Order, but I'm getting a tantalizing taste through @doriantaylor's The Nature of Software.

Welcome to App::IBIS: We Have Issues.

@doriantaylor Getting a 403 forbidden error when trying to use 🤔

Carbon Design System - Carbon Design System

The (non)sense of online advertising: when the numbers don’t add up - The Correspondent

@Carnage4Life The global pandemic has been quite the confounding variable. There’s so much fraud & snake oil in targeted advertising. The bubble has been getting ready to burst for over a decade. I worked in, with, and on adtech just long enough to see it and get out.