A solar-powered website. It goes offline when the sun goes down. I'm so impressed by this and want to build my own.
Reality continues to be written by a malfunctioning Markov algorithm.
PHP Mess Dectector (PHPMD) with #PhpStorm Integration by @regiguren
☆ The Codification of Design
composer config --global repos.packagist composer https://packagist.org
Jesuit Editors: It is time for the Kavanaugh nomination to be withdrawn
API-First Drupal: what's new in 8.6? by @wimleers
I just published “Dealing with Dependencies Inside Design Systems”
WTF are the midterms: GREAT new FREE ebook by @RHGreene:
New Media Library in Drupal 8.6 #drupal #drupal8
“There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.” – Phil Karlton
The @phase2 Particle webpack/design system/pattern lab/drupal/vue/es6/grav project just hit v10.1.0! Check it out:
Really like this tutorial by @Nrg8000 for scraping Geospatial data on @bellingcat More publ…
Being Good at Prioritizing Is More Important Than Working Hard
Blog post: A breakout year for Open Source businesses #opensource
This was a very difficult article to write --> Justice, Reform, and the Future of Saudi Arabia | @BriefOnline
✎ How much documentation to include in a style guide? I talk about how the shape and amou…
Ways of doing more ham than good: Within the communities I engage, the most common is seein…
It is easy to design for addiction, as I wrote here: But this is no long term strategy for…
Webform has found its missing piece.
Wow, it’s a fast website: . Try it out
NASA using Drupal-based workflows:
✎ I wrote about my experience cleaning out a hoarder house.
State of Drupal’s JSON API (October 2018) /cc @wimleers
https://www.drupal.org/node/2374343
Enabling "development mode" on a local #Drupal 8 site (thanks @DrupalEasy )
Overcommitting makes you look untrustworthy.
Using Feature Queries in CSS, a post from @jensimmons #webdirections #wds18
@netmag @Malarkey 's example of a debt collecting email is great, personal and without the usual business formality.
Talking about Advanced Webforms and Showing Code #drupal #webform and thanks @ericsod
Wait... perfectionism prevents us from doing our best work? 🤔 Here's why. via @trello
'Tech firms need to build trust with customers,' Zander Lurie CEO of SurveyMonkey at #WebSummit
New Resource: The Business Case for Digital Accessibility
Against software development #rant
If you haven't already, now is the time to make sure your site is running an updated and supported version of PHP!
On exploring organisational culture by @tomcritchlow
"So: writing is of you, but it’s not YOU." Helpful to keep in mind …
“If we are not regularly deeply embarrassed by who we are, the journey to self-knowledge hasn’t begun.”
Becoming data driven requires a cultural shift and a methodology.
The Big List of Naughty Strings (not the kind of naughty you're imagining):
Drupal’s Layout Initiative and component-based theming Great post!
Meet the four new designs available for order on Monday 11/26 at 8:00am PT: (photo: Nik's M…
Open Source has won /cc @rickellis
Appalling news of the death of Raed Fares, a beacon of bravery and decency - read about him and his work here
Black Friday #drush fire sale! 50% off on all plans! Happy holidays.
Creating a Mega Menu using Layout Builder in Drupal 8 I hadn’t thought about using the Drup…
Why large organizations are choosing to contribute to Drupal
Here is your holiday listening:
This excellent article by @mulegirl is at least half of what I was looking for. Excellent analysis 🙌:
We've been a bit quiet about it but we've just released #drupal #gutenberg beta *4* 😎
Blog post: How NBC Sports supports the biggest media events online #drupal #acquia…
This is a smart way to foster collaboration on content work:
This is amazing. Teared up while reading it.
This 6-part series about releasing design systems by @nathanacurtis is absolutely fantastic:
A Japanese used car dealership that serves ramen has been recognized by the prestigious Michelin Guide
Kubernetes just had its Drupalgeddon
Running a software company meanings paying for a whole bunch of _other_ software. Here's a look at that:
> Here’s the thing about creating a brand new design system: Documentation is the most important part.
"Arabic calligraphy styles standards are very close to what we call now a “design system”."
Weird Black Dot Actually Part Of Bowl
Sex, Lies, and WCM Vendors > As my grandmother used to say...(about lies and WCM vendors --…
Oh, this video about the last chess shop in NYC and its owner is just wonderful, charming, and poignant.
Subtract :
The first release candidate of the Drupal #IndieWeb module is out! r /cc @swentel
I'm having a bit of fun playing with the scale of things on let's start gentle: this map…
If it’s creepy, it isn’t personalization. As a rule of thumb, #personalization should make…
“Monocultures don’t benefit anyone.” And here’s @tkadlec with the post I wish I’d written:
“The 9 Rules of Design Research” by @mulegirl
WordPress 5.0 “Bebo”
@photomatt How about and both built on , a W…
@photomatt How about and both built on , a W…
@photomatt How about and both built on , a W…
Drupal 7 vs Drupal 8 - A Technical Comparison
What Is Design Thinking, Really? (What Practitioners Say) @NNgroup
This is stunning work, at every level.
We have 4 days to support Unbreaking journalism in English, in the United States, and inte…
YOU, A PROFESSIONAL: hi, so what do you do, what do you do for wor— ME:
"The Invisible, Imperative Aspects of Design" - @mulegirl
Top Tasks – a how-to guide #AEASF
Well, this just simultaneously impressed me and freaked the hell out of me.
RT @caseyjohnellis: “If you use a device or software that uses SQLite or Chromium, it will be affected.” #magellan #rce
20 web design trends for 2019
How to automate testing whether your Drupal 8 module is incompatible with Drupal 9? Read and bookmark this!
Spoiler alert: It took a village.
"Design systems are no longer novel, they’re essential"
How can you read this issue summary and not love working on Drupal? #worldclass
"Myths of Documenting Components" - @nathanacurtis
Fake metrics: Impressions are the new hits - Gerry McGovern -
All the “i agree this is great for the web” replies to paper-thin over the surfac…
Good to see the Shenzhen research with @anxiaostudio appear in the WSJ
Adding an admin page with a config settings form to a custom module in Drupal 8 - The Accidental Coder #Drupal
@CortlandWalker “Champion” is one of the common customer roles in models of complex sales situations. For example:
That Viral Video of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Dancing Is a Meta-Meme | WIRED
is here! #drupal #drupaltv #drupalvideos #drupalcommunity
is here! #drupal #drupaltv #drupalvideos #drupalcommunity
You can find a full transcript - with pictures! - on our website:
I put together a site over the weekend for my 50 Restaurants challenge.
Nearly 11,000 newly out of copyright books are available on — downloadable as PDFs/Kindle/e…
@rachel_norfolk I use Bartender for Mac, and am quite happy with it 🙂
@CAldenJacobs Finally, a question I can answer. 😎 The Great Suspender
Love this idea. “Content, design systems need you!” by Ryan Cordell
Beyond Social Networks: How Cultural Beliefs Really Spread
🎯 Popping off on what I'm up to in 2019 with @ThisIsBucket. ☞ for a full run-down ☞…
Let’s get content strategists and designers sitting at the same table.
news from the department of geo-localization artifacts
To FAQ or not to FAQ? Here's one of the smartest articles on the topic we've seen.
I like how @davewiner moved his Flickr archive to his own website: . Very #POSSE! #indieweb
I like how @davewiner moved his Flickr archive to his own website: . Very #POSSE! #indieweb
UGH WHY IS @owltastic SO GOOOOOOOOD? What a beautiful new website. She’s an aspiration.
Designing for the web ought to mean making HTML and CSS "The calamity of complexity that th…
@ppk @meyerweb @beep @chockenberry I'm still working on it:
Here’s how to make sure your content stays accessible over time.
Using AI for alt text by @oninross #dailydevdollop
RT @Dries: Google Docs gets an API for task automation Interesting!
RT @mulegirl: "The Six Principles of Conversational Transformation" - @mulegirl
RT @jeffmacintyre: “Better personalized recommendations through transparency and content design” by @biggeidea
RT @VOD_Rocks: New episode! @jensimmons joined us to talk about what the heck is up with the web these days. Great conversation.
Web Page #Footers: Design Patterns and When to Use Each #UX #webdesign
This week's Ridgeline going out in a weeeee bit:
Let me be clear: @GerryMcGovern is the most badass among us.
Redesigning GitHub Repository Page
Could be handy... R package for grabbing data from Parliamentary Research Briefings API /via @olihawkins #parlidata
@SaraSoueidan One I bookmarked yesterday:
“Some Thoughts on Design Research, Agile, and Traps” by Charles Lambdin
@SaraSoueidan “Design Better Forms” by Andrew Coyle
See No Evil: Hidden Content and Accessibility #a11y
"Hello, and Thanks for All the Fish"
Cache-Control for civilians, by @csswizardry
The Unedited version of Teju Cole's conversation with Krista Tippett On Being is so wonderful.
When Is A Button Not A Button? — Smashing Magazine by @pepelsbey_ #a11y
☞ Designing Safer Web Animation For Motion Sensitivity @vlh #OldGold #InclusiveDesign #aeasea
"It's Never a Good Time to Do Research" - @mulegirl
New Quicklink module in Drupal 8 for performance improvement
@louisrosenfeld You could try connecting with @alexschmidt –
Dear Kurt Vonnegut. A constant source for me.
🦊 the results of this accessibility survey have been haunting me all week so i wrote about them
If the future is voice search and AI, then the future is also structured content.
AutoAuth looks interesting, @EddieHinkle #indieweb
Diversity, polarization and connectivity - Gerry McGovern -
exactly how many libraries of alexandria has our industry burned down, i wonder
And JUST LIKE THAT, the #Drupal Media Library is now UI complete for 8.7.x! Demo video: HU…
Mike Monteiro strikes again.
RT @craigmod: Well, damn, this is a lovely and heartbreaking short doc about … wasabi:
Blog post: JSON:API lands in Drupal core, a monumental milestone for decoupled Drupal A spe…
I wrote something for you. My Glamorous Life: Healthcare in America.
🥓 🍳 ☕️ 💻 Digging into
What does GDPR mean for UX?
Humility in the age of complexity - Gerry McGovern -
Children who grow up without access to green space have up to 55% higher risk of developing a psychiatric disorder
“A Proven Method For Showing The Value Of Good UX” by @jmspool
“We want a gift! But only if it’s MONEY!” He’s the anticapitalist you’ve been waiting for
UX writing craves collaboration. Here’s how to open up and embrace a team effort in your writing process.
"3 adaptive #contentstrategy trends for omnichannel marketing" 1) Channels don’t all nee…
If you haven't, subscribe to Craig Mod's newsletter; here's a sample:
Learn about leveraging Webforms and more at the DrupalCon Seattle Healthcare Summit …
A number of great articles on the topic of simplicity in web development. . I’ve been simpli…
RT @azumbrunnen_: With the new Gmail you can schedule emails so you don’t have to annoy your colleagues on the weekend —
@ASpittel @the_whittington @LittleKope I think we're safe 😀
My Web Accessibility Testing Process by @LittleKope #a11y #accessibility
What's your favorite website design of all time? For me, @colly's website circa 2010 () stan…
And of course, @colly's current website is lovely: and he is a lovely person.
It costs to be an aging hipster rolling up to the club. My receipt proves it.
This piece from @zeldman is so good
New notes from two books on Artificial Intelligence. One good, one great. +
New notes from two books on Artificial Intelligence. One good, one great. +
@zeldman I've written myself on @alistapart about the high price we pay for free
RT @brad_frost: I think Split by @adactio is a very important read about web development. It's well worth your time:
Blog post: State of Drupal presentation (April 2019) #driesnote #slides #drupalcon #recording
Watch my live activity “Big walk” now!
hey @hyperakt @FastCompany, i don’t see @MinaMarkham’s name anywhere in i mean, that’s wei…
Abbreviated thoughts on Frank Chimero's "The Long, Hard, Stupid Way":
Trying to compile a list of interesting business-diagram-types. Who do you follow? so far I…
I like this gradient design:
Applying some "nudge theory" to the Webform issue queue #drupal #webform #issue #community
Ajax events on entity reference (autocomplete) form elements in Drupal 8 Learn something new every day!
Display Suite is now #Drupal 9 ready thanks to . Awesome tool for maintainers! Thanks again…
"What's Wrong with Dot Voting Exercises" - @stephenanderson
📗 'The Elements of Content Strategy' - - by @kissane 📘 'How to make Sense of Any Mess' -…
RT @ArabTyrantMan: New episode: the power of nonviolence, with @jamilaraqib
✩ Stables and Volatiles – why product companies need both kinds of engineers. @rands ℅ @danmall #aeabos
Understanding grid placement through building a HTML periodical table
Blog post: Acquia acquired Mautic, the open source marketing automation platform /cc…
Very, very interesting.
Morpht: Drupal 8 Configuration - Part 1 Could be the start of a good blog post series!
If your goal is triggering a _specific keyboard_ for on-screen keyboards, `inputmode` is your buddy.
If you're a developer needing help with UI design, check out 👏 @steveschoger @adamwathan
✏️ What Does it Mean to Be “Full Stack”
Reminded today of this wonderful website by @brad_frost, and phrase by @JamesGleick: “Wh…
Also this talk by Brad Frost is as good:
😍 with I don't think I can ever not use it again @robweychert @stuntbox
Which new skills should designers pursue? See what my friend @danielmall has to say.
I published something new: "One of the dumbest things I’ve ever published" It's about th…
I am looking forward to some #ultralight #backpacking gear made from this: #trekking #scifi #Science
📓(The rules, for use of) ARIA in HTML W3C Working Draft 31 May 2019
This is really smart: – using `prefers-reduced-motion` as a media query but inside a `pictu…
Job opening: Interaction designer in Tokyo: We‘d say it’s a dream job.
"Hazard Mapping" - @mulegirl
Content is service, service is content - Gerry McGovern -
@jackmcdade Such annoying behaviour. This one helps for iTunes. Should work for Spotify as well:
Publishing is Hard is very good:
I ended my post on the UX of annotations: by thinking that Twitter as an "annotation layer"…
@sehurlburt I heartily recommend this kale packed stew for colder months:
.@johnmaeda becomes Chief Experience Officer of @PublicisSapient …
Drop caps & design systems Really great post via @voxproduct by @beep
@dburka This doesn’t even need to be argued, there’s judicial precedent.
This cannot possibly be a real video from a huge consumer product company.
Why I don't use web components, by @Rich_Harris
@mulegirl You might enjoy @khoi’s talk from Interaction 18 on the topic:
Blog post: Scrambling in Snowdonia #personal #travel #photography
She uses when designing- she learned that when she made this site for Germany, she increase…
Hearing: Optimizing for Engagement: Understanding the Use of Persuasive Technology on Internet Platforms
"The 9 Rules of Design Research" - @mulegirl
Naming things is hard. #PatternsDay
The Accessibility of Styled Form Controls A repository of styled and “styled” form control…
We love a good reading list. Here’s an excellent one that organizes titles by discipline. (Thanks, @storyneedle!)
I just published 'Why your design system should include content'
I Am An Old Soul. "I crave the simpler things: the real intimacy of chatting on AIM."
Congratulations on inventing the office.
Making Personas Truly Valuable by Making Them Scenario-based @jmspool More effective perso…
Seriously, you need to start documenting your UX work | Inside Design Blog I've been docum…
NPS is a waste of time. Use these metrics instead.
Great new #drupal handbook page! Thanks @laurii1 @MartianWebDev and anevins.
A new approach for a new Pattern Lab. Also, a new version of Shila theme.
Mental strain of delivering excellent service - Gerry McGovern -
✎ Frontend Design, React, and a bridge over The Great Divide:
@reactjs The Great Divide is real, as @chriscoyier's excellent commentary on @css captures:
Notion just raised $10M at a $800M valuation. Impressive how far they’ve come since their…
Wow NYTimes: Safe Deposit Boxes Aren’t Safe Safe Deposit Boxes Aren’t Safe
Fantastic observations about software speed by @craigmod "Fast software is not always goo…
Proactive UX Design: A Big Leap Requiring Baby Steps by @jmspool
Here’s how to survive as a solo content strategist and build a culture of content along the way.
Y’all saw this, right?
@kvlly i've set things up so that all my commit messages take from here:
An Overview of Testing in Drupal 8 by @Lullabot
Animation choices that are... illegal? #AEADC
wow this is remarkable talk by @adactio
“The more I learn about digital accessibility, the more I realize it’s not about the code at all.”
Improve Keyboard Accessibility of Submenu Navigations using CSS - #css lesson by @LittleKope
Our top-performing blog post last month - Why your design system should include content by @Minette_78
Designing For Print With CSS. An article about working with Paged Media #aeachi
An Event Apart always has the best event playlists: #aeachi
NetNewsWire 5.0:
Transforming text Excellent little tool by @rem to turn text into a structured dataset
California Consumer Privacy Act Whiteboard – the CCPA summarized in just 1 page! …
In Getting Real, we called this "epicenter design." Start in the Middle:
Self-hosted analytics… here’s some players: • • Or like a termina…
Self-hosted analytics… here’s some players: • • Or like a termina…
@jina Yes! Whimsical
@manasclerk ICYMI from @apenwarr
Me: I will never write another book! Also me: Here are 2500 free words about building better products!
Change is afoot:
@johnpaulhayes @Bitterwhiteguy @jashkenas @BTRTSR From a journalistic perspective: From a…
A big win for accessibility:
Design clear interactions instead of clever ones, and users will follow
Think about learning in order to make better decisions, not "research".
Meal planning. Using two recipes as a starting point (crispy/cheesy farro & cauliflower: an…
These are very, very good.
"The solution to depression is action, and I’ve got a clear idea what I need to do", 🔥❤️
Are you designing a product or a service?
Mistakes the CSSWG wishes they could undo I appreciate this honesty and transparency, it'…
This open source credit card component is one of the best I’ve seen.
What do Kurt Vonnegut, Werner Heisenberg, and Van Halen have to do with the Death of #IA? Read on, pals:
Instead of redesigning Spotify for case studies, how about:
@monteiro @sara_ann_marie @drpontus And on culture, @davegray's fantastic work on culture mapping.
Site Kit is now available for all WordPress sites "Site Kit is Google's official WordPress…
Sometimes great design is just figuring out how to most effectively move trash around. Love this.
✎ A Design System Governance Process In this post, I detail the work involved in going fro…
@marcpgilbert This is good content
this is by far the most boringly titled thing i've ever put online, but i think it's worth your time:
"the data made me do it" 6min clip from my new talk on how A/B testing can go awry & how to…
Every web developer should see this talk by @slightlylate. I hope he never gives it again.
Lordy, The Atlantic redesign is smokin':
Trying out Jimmy Wales’ new thing:
📽 Slides from my @perfnowconf talk, ‘From Milliseconds to Millions’:
Got proper nerdsniped today. Here it is, dorks. 🚚 Single div CSS Tesla Cybertruck
I don’t want to download your app otherwise I would have gone to the app store. #sa
@PavelASamsonov Not that one. This one:
It's a good day to think about the future.
Big, heaping, mega portion of Roden going out in just a weeeeee bit:
A 30-second journey into wellness hell.
I have created a page answering the common questions about digital transformation:
@dandoescontent Speaking of...here are two things I recently wrote about that: See the la…
@brad_frost marginal gains. via @markboulton
@_developit Have you looked at Tailscale? @apenwarr may have thoughts
"Much of what we accept as legal in medical billing would be regarded as fraud in any other sector."
"According to the EPA, in 2017 only 8.4% of our discarded plastic went through that magic recycling process."
The content pipes are calling
At least it looks like DAI usage has dropped between 2016 and 2017?
@eaton I just saw this for the first time about a week ago - !
@SaraSoueidan IBM Plex (Open source) GT America, by @grillitype …
@SaraSoueidan IBM Plex (Open source) GT America, by @grillitype …
“It’s underwater—and the consequences are unimaginable.”
Just posted a master list with all of my 2019 "Things I'm Digging" links. Enjoy! ✌️
@reichenstein @RoamResearch Here's a good example of the tool in use: and an overview of s…
Next up: high speed operations.
Behaviours of high integrity product managers: dependability, common intent and accountability.
@Loilo92 @gbellencontre @grubersjoe @dan_abramov They have different meanings - check out the usage notes on MDN
@chriscoyier WEB DESIGNER WALL FOREVA.
What is Information Architecture? (@andybywire has published some truly wonderful content…
-@aaronsw, +7. Seven years ago, we lost Aaron.
Like, I have almost all the things listed on this page now. (That sauté pan would be nice to have.)
this @gumroad open board meeting is so great, thanks @shl for sharing <3
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog [EN]: Get Ready for New SameSite=None; Secure Cookie Settings
Get ready for a new model for Cookie security
The idea of putting together screencasts in lieu of client meetings is interesting. I think I like it.
The best sneakers I’ve ever owned: Shoes Like Pottery →
please tell the world this exists @round people need to know:
Everything Easy is Hard Again
"How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)" is about 22x better than I dared to hope. 😂 trailer:…
Get ready to be a hero in your organization.
An excellent thlink by @mulegirl - The Six Principles of Conversational Transformation :: Mule
Acro Media: Drupal’s Admin UI and How it Compares to WordPress #drupal #wordpress
Playing with Jenkins's taxonomy of narrative strategies in games * evocative * enacting *…
from which i go to for inspiration from time to time thanks to @bhorowitz
Here’s a new essay, gentlemen. The 2020 Guide for White Men in Tech!! It’s all about you!!
** Create books from @AREdotNA channels with , a project initiated and supported by the Poet…
Designing something requires that you completely understand what a person wants to get done.
I wrote a bit about progressively enhancing brand in design systems.
Anyone else making the Asimov "Spell My Name with an S" connection? 🧐
Dangerous domain goes up for sale. It's dangerous because years of testing shows whoever wi…
Here’s a new blog post. A purely aspirational litany, Imagine This…
Drupal 9 alpha 1 is live: Not ready for production, but site owners and extension authors c…
New Post: Toward Responsive Elements Wondering what's up with 'container queries'?... Here's an update.
And the interesting part 2, three years later. That's a brilliant insight @johncutlefish
@yongfook Lots of walks. Daily social interaction. These sleep aids:
@elliotjaystocks Have you seen ?
@gerrymcgovern Have you seen @mulegirl's essay?
Multiple component designs using the same HTML. Love it.
Worth reading Asimov’s Foundation
@alicenwondrlnd is your friend
once again, @tomcritchlow nails it, reconceptualizing the role of "narrative strategy"
this is probably the best thing i’ve ever read about criticism
@gerrymcgovern @OudinotCamille I spoke about the expansion of UX design here: Part of the…
@Mariewithasah @PopTechWorks @mulegirl @kimgoodwin my article is here:
Why books are here to stay (Chip Kidd | Small Thing Big Idea) via @TEDTalks
Ride off into the sunset on your electric motorcycle
Great @farnamstreet Knowledge Project w/Frank Stephenson and @ShaneAParrish
So, back in the 50s and 60s, the CIA dosed unsuspecting US citizens with LSD. They were hunting communists.
@brad_frost Im happy with gandi
If you're looking for a domain registrar, you can't go wrong with Gandi!
New post by @vgr, a text renaissance
Americans are drowning in a sea of polls
“The medium of designers is behavior. — Robert Fabricant” — @jmspool
Just 2 hours by train from Tokyo is this beautifully-restored historic ryokan nestled in mountainous Niigata
Absolute scale corrupts absolutely @apenwarr on scale:
Prompted by @doriantaylor's excellent piece on Agile as an industry trauma-response () I've…
~*design details matter*~ Ya'll should skim this:
YOU WERE A WOLF ONCE DAMMIT
"Real experts know — and are willing to be very clear about — where their ignorance lies."
Jobs To Be Done: An Occasionally Useful UX Gimmick by @jmspool
Search API Synonym
@illepic I’ve fallen in love with this button aria-expanded + div.hidden combo. I first saw it in @heydonworks’s
First Rule of Usability? Don't Listen to Users
I wrote an article about #userresearch methods! Here are 13 tips to master the process: Hu…
oh bless you, @adactio
How Dishoom, London’s beloved restaurant group, scales with quality: Co-founder Shamil Tha…
When Media Cries Wolf
always been intrigued by eink, have never seen it used particularly well — this looks like it has potential:
How to use CSS Scroll Snap
e. When researching this post, I discovered that Bongard problems were first popularized by a brief discussion in GEB—which I had entirely forgotten.2 It turns out that Hofstadter’s analysis develops some of the same themes as “How To Think”; I return to them in this post.3
Summary: To decide whether to visit a page, people take into account how much relevant information they are likely to find on that page relative to the effort involved in extracting that info.
To Show the Value of UX, We Must Show the Work of UX by @jmspool
To Have and to Hold: Data in a Mobile World
Recording of the chat available here:
Live from my kitchen it's Saturday night!
I’ve had a bit of a move around
Innovation is overvalued. Maintenance often matters more | Aeon Essays
Web superhero @dracos wrote up how he vastly improved the performance of the UK government Coronavirus data website. Spoiler alert: "The important thing is to have a resilient base layer of HTML and CSS, and then to enhance that with JavaScript."
@eaton Related:
“Problem-solving is always messy and most solutions are shaped by political agendas and resource constraints. The solutions that win out are not necessarily the best — they are generally those that are favored by the powerful or at least by the majority.”
A much-overlooked portion of design’s value is that poor design is very costly to an organization. Poor design can increase development costs through rework and waste.
Reflecting on the last couple months. Keep coming back to the wonderful experience of finishing a book with @searchlight5 and the rest of the @Amplitude_HQ teams. When vendor ebooks are a dime a dozen, I'm proud we put love and care into this (1/2)
Quantitatively evaluate a product or service’s user experience by using metrics to gauge its relative performance against a meaningful standard #UX #benchmarking #metrics
starting today my book, Mobile First, is free for all online: thanks @abookapart!
I see my term “data literacy isn’t binary” making the rounds. So great! We should be talking more about how it isn’t @lukestanke. I wrote about it for the data viz topic of the week On @DataVizSociety - join us on slack while we talk about this topic.
The World Needs Designers.
lightly scrubbed version of this guide in Google Docs
Read his words in full:
MUST-READ: “Empathy is the first ingredient to successful web governance.”
Woohoo! Let's "see" each other online and reassure ourselves that the values that attract us to UX are still key to the future (and that we can level up our skills at acting out these values)
Related: Medium is not *your* website.
Yesterday, we had 650+ UX leaders in a zoom call talking about why UX outcomes make better goals than business outcomes. It was quite a hoot. You can see the recording. It’s in our new Leaders of Awesomeness community. Join here:
"Your technology strategy needs to be continually informed by the needs of your editorial team and audience, not by the latest tech, or what promotions the big platforms are offering now." @ftrain is a smart human and y'all should read him, because, YUP
This is great but what would be greater is a natively totally ad-free experience as a subscriber:
The decline of RSS and Atom is one of the great tragedies of the modern web.
I've been publicly wondering for a while why the spread of the pandemic is so uneven. This paper has me pretty persuaded that the Japanese public health people were right, and spread is entirely dominated by a few superspreading events.
The most satisfyingly 2020 outcome would be if Trump was right and this proved completely effective
I think we can all agree that learning about your client is key. Using tools like stakeholder interviews can help you truly understand your client and develop products for them and their users. Learn how to use this tool today!
🦊 Oh my GOODNESS, responsive design turns ten today! Here’s how it happened, and who helped *make* it happen:
Richard Hamming's life was a study in the importance of having a vision of greatness––and being relentless in the pursuit of it. The Art of Doing Science and Engineering, with a foreword by @worrydream, is now available. 📚🔬💻
TOMORROW on AM I THE DESIGN ASSHOLE? We’re so excited to have special guest @round join us! Get your ticket.
Encouraging a Culture of Written Communication
📝New blog post: Why don't we personal website owners collect all the feeds we generate at one central place, for example on a /feeds page? A place for RSS feeds of your blog posts, favorited items, or even tweets. Like this:
📝New blog post: Why don't we personal website owners collect all the feeds we generate at one central place, for example on a /feeds page? A place for RSS feeds of your blog posts, favorited items, or even tweets. Like this:
From Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "The Other America." Read it here: . Watch it here:
From Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "The Other America." Read it here: . Watch it here:
#Drupal9 Top 9: Drupal, the most powerful enterprise open source content management system, is launching the latest—and most comprehensive—upgrade to its popular software today. #CelebrateDrupal #D9LaunchDay
Related - Speaker for the Dead is one of those fiction books that will give you a few dozen Evergreen Notes for your Zettelkasten. Would absolutely be the last rite for a new religion where boldly seeking truth is spiritual path
So who should be the censor? It certainly shouldn’t be any single individual. It shouldn’t a government, nor a church, nor publishers, nor writers’ associations, nor any institution with a vested interest (which rules out all institutions). The only entity I’m willing to trust with the critical judgement of public words is the public as a whole, just as the First Amendment says. But I’d like to do much more to empower all members of that public both to choose what they hear and to understand their responsibilities when they speak out. I’d like children to be raised not only hearing about freedom of expression, but understanding the social consequences of that expression. I’d like them to be awash not in mindless media outpourings, but in wonderful examples of precise, considered, socially uplifting words. I wouldn’t prohibit them from encountering any publication, but I would do everything in my power to encourage them to judge publications and to close pages, turn dials, and eliminate destructive speech by the most powerful means possible — their own refusal to give it their attention.
"At no point did I even consider that some people have to be solution forward. That here I was, a white man, opining about the benefits of starting together, but I wasn't seeing the whole picture."
“The truth emerged only slowly, and was, in its own slippery way, stranger than than fiction.”
One of the core reasons why we don’t have a lot more quality Web design is the organizational excuse that we’re different, our audiences are different, we’re exceptional. - Gerry McGovern -
✍️I started out to write a gentle remembrance, and a raw reliving came out instead.
📢 The Web Vitals extension is now in Chrome Web Store: ~ instantly measure quality signals key to great UX in one-click. Measures: 🎨 Largest Contentful Paint 👆 First Input Delay 💨 Cumulative Layout Shift
@jensimmons All browsers: contaaaaaainer queeeeerieeees!!! Safari specifically: ambient badging (add to home screen) for progressive web apps.
Accessible Data tables - a round-up of some reading I've been doing for client project. All glory belongs to @aardrian, @stevefaulkner and @hj_chen.
I'll be hosting and facilitating a discussion about this topic -- product data literacy -- today at 12 noon pacific. Feel free to join and here different perspectives on this question.
I recently encountered this idea that exercising spatial memory and orientation might be crucial to our brain's health(Wayfinding pg.18). Makes me wonder how Google Maps could be transformed into a "complimentary cognitive artifact".
we have relaunched another website. it is @bustle, at . the team killed it and i am very proud. go and check it out. you will see a fresh look but there is also exciting new technology! bustle on the card system! wow! go team!
Coming up in 20 minutes. Philadelphians talking about design. You know you need this in your day.
"Drupal and the secret of my success" /cc @spf13
"The process model resulted when I started doing content models with my clients but someone else would be doing the interface design and engineering..." @carriehd in a #contentstrategy conversation: #design
imo the fundamental problem in america right now is the same one i wrote about “startups.” people don’t believe in unmediated reality, think everything’s manipulable, or veneer, a “stunt”
Ten principles for good design
OK so apparently Apple sells the braided Thunderbolt 3 Pro Cable for $129 which looks promising
Been working out some accessible web component patterns. This modal seems to check the important boxes, I hope. Planning to clean these up into separate repos and blog soon.
In his 2019 @framerloupe conference talk, @maxvoltar described product design as being like a dance. It's easy to do if there's just one of you, but requires more co-ordination the more of you there are.
It has taken a while (years!), but finally the videos from the By Design conference in Bratislava are online:
🚀 It's live! My new website is now up & running: . I do frequent redesigns but it's been a while since I've felt this proud over shipping a personal site.
Product design principles (or, in short, design principles) are value statements that frame design decisions and support consistency in decision making across teams working on the same product or service. #UX
The new @iawriter. Now with Style Check.
"Our digital projects could be delivered faster, come under budget and provide better results by introducing a discovery phase upfront." - This post shows you how to make it happen.
What happened when the Dutch public broadcaster replaced cookies and tracking with a privacy-focused system? It started making more money. (And the ads worked really well.) It's alllllmost as if behavioral targeting is slowly killing digital media ...
Love this example of thinking in public from my friend @kmonson: and just all round smart thinking. ("meeting version" lol)
@TatianaTMac Oh my goodness this. And Awwwards & most web design inspiration sites that I'm aware of these days 😭 Any recommendations for design inspo sites that prioritize accessibility and web standards? I still look at sometimes, but it seems less active
Nielsen: "Users often choose system functions by mistake and will need a clearly marked "emergency exit" to leave the unwanted state without having to go through an extended dialogue. Support undo and redo."
@CAldenJacobs Yup! Design for Real Life should be required reading before you're allowed to open Sketch or Figma.
Next time you’re asked to explain what content designers do, this diagram — based on a user centered design process — will help. Thanks, @Minette_78!
Sylvan Esso: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Fast Fashion could not have the same corrosive impact without digital. Instagram Culture is ravenous for the new, for the fast, for the flashy, for the fake.
RT @reichenstein: This wasn’t easy to write it to publish. But, today, I just had to hit that publish button and get it over with:
Is there a design studio equivalent of ?
"Any particular technology should only do what only that particular technology can do. -- Take JavaScript, for example. It feels “wrong” when a powerful client-side JavaScript framework is applied to something that could be accomplished using HTML."
Ran across this site from 1998 that's full of observations on what makes Hypertext writing special. The now popular "gardening" metaphor of websites makes an appearance along w/ a unique critique of orderly navigation, among other neat ideas.
My time with InVision is finished and this event caps an incredible five year journey working with hundreds of designers, design leaders, product and business leaders, and engineers. If you're looking for a design leader, I know a great candidate...
I just learned about #VentDiagrams and they’re my new fave thing. An awesome way to explore and express complexity, polarities, and tensions.
The Correspondent introduced its story "Blockchain, the amazing solution for almost nothing" via email with a bold headline: BLOCKCHAIN IS TECH BS. AND THE MARKET FOR THAT IS HUGE Consider this tweet an endorsement of The Correspondent and this article:
Investing is known to be about betting on the right horse (the business), the right jockey (the team), and the right track (the category). If you get all three, then you win — but apparently the jockey isn't as important as we like to think.
It is up to the designers (and everyone else) who are privileged to ask the hard questions about the work that we are doing for profit. We are both privileged to be able to question it and, precisely because of that privilege, in a place where we must.
React Native
How to run a premortem workshop
Building #LEGO 10252 Volkswagen Beetle tonight on my Instagram story
Why Are Most Organizations Stuck Solving The Same Content Problems As 20 Years Ago?
https://moz.com/researchtools/ose/
If you run Windows servers, I’ve had great experiences with this tool which automatically manages LetsEncrypt certificates forever.
Was able make this a bit easier to read (first version was basically a transcription). 50 Short Product Lessons
Summary of @visakanv's video "cultivate your taste" 🧵👇
Ref - Great piece by @anthilemoon on how there is no such thing as the right time to start and why you should start NOW.
"I would argue that the idea of design approval is a relic of the past, that as web designers, we should be abandoning." — 5 Ways You Can Make Design Approval Easy
"Repair is the creative destruction of brokenness." —Elizabeth V. Spelman #kintsugi
Next up: The thing so many people get the most wrong about design research, especially organizations that are just getting started with it.
I haven't been able to do much writing about professional topics *at all* this year, so in this thread I will draw your attention to some greatest hits, in case they are helpful. First up. If you're going to run a survey, don't muck it up:
Guess what's coming out THIS month from our favorite author Allie Brosh?! 👀🎉 SOLUTIONS AND OTHER PROBLEMS...We're SO excited. September 22 cannot get here fast enough! Get your copy here:
For multi-platform design system documentation, find inspiration from: #clarity2020
For multi-platform design system documentation, find inspiration from: #clarity2020
Pay for value: Pay for the stuff you value. Cheap takes from the future to serve the present. By paying for stuff, you will allow the people who make it to live off their work rather than to live off advertising.
When it comes to online writing, my favorite example of a florilegium is @brainpickings which will forever be one one the best websites on the Internet.
Just checked a few old links in my old 'epic list of content strategy resources' and, reader, I'm sad to see so many of them 404ing
If you'd like to join my quixotic strategy-slash-experiment of posting articles on Facebook that encourage critical thinking without playing directly into the pre-digested framing and futile meme wars. I'll thread a selection here. This is a good one
I just opened the homepage in a new tab and got caught in an A/B test where there is no more distracting hero creative video or primary navigation but there are still 3 competing and distracting animations above the fold.
For whatever reason, I started writing a book about relational databases a couple years ago. I never finished it, but it's about 13,000 words. It's about 75% of where it should be. I'll finish it someday.
After years of only having few recommendations for @superfriendlyco clients to manage design tokens, we decided to build one. It's called Arcade, and it's the fun way to create, edit, and manage design tokens. Give us your email if you want early access!
"We should want to know if our patterns are optimizing for visual use cases at the expense of others…" @scottjehl
👏 @gruber on Facebook complaining about Apple doing the right thing: "The idea that we don’t dare do anything good for privacy that might reduce the efficacy of user-tracking ads because “pity the poor small businesses” is sophistry."
Three types of people who hold power in an organization: • Decision-makers – must be consulted or can make decisions themselves • Gatekeepers – control access to time or data • Makers – produce rare and valuable assets Great post from @tomcritchlow
Another shoutout to @dpatil for "Move purposefully and fix things" Also very important, but I think that purposefulness needs to come with a huge dose of diverse collaboration and pumping the brakes.
Low-Contrast Text Is Not the Answer
In one of the personally wilder turns in an absolute absurd year @Outlier is on the New York Fashion Week calendar:
AI content-deletion on social media platforms could stop journalists investigating war crimes, report: - via:@pressgazette
In the "where have you been all my life" category: @newsproduct launches a much-needed platform for product thinkers, "the missing link to creating sustainable journalism in the digital age." Especially excited to see @becca_aa leading the way. Congrats!
Refreshing:
The first tip: get some data. 🙌
- A purely browser-based privacy-first video tool capable of performing tasks like converting, compression, etc. without uploading your files using #WebAssembly.
Did you miss Kris Vanderwater of @acquia presenting "Your data model is terrible! Let me show you why." at #MidCamp 2020? Well good news for you, the recording is here:
modular, systematic order
Infographic: 50 Cognitive Biases in the Modern World
A great user experience only comes about through constant diligence and attention. If the organization isn’t paying attention, it’s unlikely they stumbled on one by chance.
Ecosystem maps can make the complexity of large organizations' content publishing efforts more accessible without getting bogged down in the details. @JoshLTong's new post looks at how to generate and use them…
Hey nerds, if you need a half-hour away from everything: Start reading this article on font-fallbacks, pause midway through to refill your coffee or tea, and then keep reading. Go slow. 🛻🪰🥷
💖 Ayo I made a new website! With my coworkers @FacultyCo! It's sick! And I'm proud of it! I'd love to hear what you think! 💖 👨🏼💻
“The past, present and future of UX writing and content design”—whew! This interview was the first time I’ve gone on the record about several of these topics. Thanks to @JasperPlatz at @stringshq for writing it all down so I didn’t have to. 😇 Enjoy!
Enabled native lazy-load by default for images
Earlier of piece of mine that touches upon the misleading use of the word "community" that often dominates the way Facebook talks about itself. Communities have reciprocal rights and responsibilities. Facebook groups are in-group/out-group strife engines.
CSS Guidelines (2.2.5) – High-level advice and guidelines for writing sane, manageable, scalable CSS
✍️ New post about @beep’s latest talk: On the Design Systems Between Us
Sliding Scale of Giving a Fuck
Missed the Accessible UI series with @una? We've got you covered! 📝 Semantic Markup: 🎨 Color: 🚘 Navigation: 🖼 Media: 🎢 Animation:
Missed the Accessible UI series with @una? We've got you covered! 📝 Semantic Markup: 🎨 Color: 🚘 Navigation: 🖼 Media: 🎢 Animation:
Missed the Accessible UI series with @una? We've got you covered! 📝 Semantic Markup: 🎨 Color: 🚘 Navigation: 🖼 Media: 🎢 Animation:
Missed the Accessible UI series with @una? We've got you covered! 📝 Semantic Markup: 🎨 Color: 🚘 Navigation: 🖼 Media: 🎢 Animation:
Missed the Accessible UI series with @una? We've got you covered! 📝 Semantic Markup: 🎨 Color: 🚘 Navigation: 🖼 Media: 🎢 Animation:
Using a Schema.org-First approach to build a single source of truth and a unified Content Management System #schemaorg #schemafirst #cms #API
From the archive: Accessibility is not what you think - #Over10YearsBlogging
"[C]ontent is not a feature. Content cannot happen after everything is designed. Content is what fuels the user experience. And you’ve got to start with it early." YAAAS. 👏 Check out this interview with @halvorson for more content zingers.
“We’d love to believe design speaks for itself, but a large part of the job is helping others hear its voice. Persuasive rationale—the why to your work—is what turns a great document into a great product.” @Cennydd #OldGold
Gonna try and get the ball rolling on coding out the new portfolio site design on Twitch in a little bit here! Would love to have you join us 💛
Perhaps the most abused and misunderstood word in the creative world is ‘strategy’ What does it even mean to be ‘strategic?’ @andybudd breaks it down in a way that no one else could. Do read.
A few days ago I celebrated my ten year anniversary as a blogger. To celebrate I decided to write the story of my career over the last decade and the roads that led me to my recent decision to leave my full time role with Etsy.
Economists at the World Bank understand the value of data: . It's an honor to be part of the World Bank Annual Meetings today, and for @Mapbox to join the Development Data Partnership. thx you @DevDataPship @WorldBank @mikel @ianschuler @developmentseed
Big thanks to @shawnmmccabe and @AcroMediaInc for identifying ways to mentor new #Drupal contributor "Vishalghyv" in the context of enriching the fraud detection / prevention measures of Commerce 2.x. 🥳
Ever needed to convert HTML to Markdown? This little app by @domchristie does it so well! It's the only one I found (online) that let me convert my code blocks to fenced code blocks and specify my preferences re: bullets, headings etc. ❤️
My next Training Course, Listening Deeply, is coming up fast!
“When teams adopt Agile, the first attempts often involve doing the same things you’ve always done, just faster. This never works out well. You can’t do eight weeks of research in two weeks. Don’t even try.” — @jseiden
A good explanation of what typography on the web is like for Japanese.
Fantastic article and intriguing call to action. Thanks @morville! 💬"Information architecture is the design of language and classification systems to change the world." #IA #UX -
New article: My Chatbot is Dead · Why yours should probably be too #ux #design #monostudio
The online ad industry is a massive con job and it's does tremendous damage to the climate because of its hugely wasteful activities.
Still love this ravpower charger. Have been using it as my main travel charger for 18 months. 45W seems to be a sweet spot for power and size. This is the most portable, flattest charger I’ve been able to find:
This rollout was a huge team effort and I’m so excited about the future it’ll enable. Expect to see more when we rollout Polaris v6, including a public Figma UI kit, but for now, here’s more about the update.
attention. theft. (more here if that term intrigues you )
Styling Complex Labels A nice article about styling form labels to make the information easy to understand for all visitors to your site.
Best redesign of the year goes to... the text-only NPR site! My source of news for the last 12 months.
@eaton Have you checked out - I'm just getting looped into that community. I bet folks there might have ideas/thoughts.
Just watched “On the rocks” and realized how much I miss movies, cities, meeting new people. And how much I wanna be like Bill Murray when I get old.
Wait, where is cancel culture? To say Sacha Baron Cohen's earlier film was racist and inexcusably exploitative is an understatement. It was cruel. He went to a dirt poor village in Romania, paid them a pittance and duped them into this. I'm not over it.
NEW PODCAST: #ContentStrategy starts with people. Hear @carriehd explain the ways of getting the right information to the right people, while meeting audience needs and the business goals. #contentmodeling
Data as Property? Scholars, activists, technologists and presidential candidates have all proposed data governance reforms to address the social ills generated by the technology industry and develop true alternatives. Interesting essay via @syllabus_tweets
The Session
I wrote a lot of words about Discord, which I think looks a lot like the future of the internet
Back on a paper bullet journal but this methodology is still proving to work well while my brain is completely melted by pandemic panic
This was our very first website:
“AI is going to take over the world!!!” AI:
Statistics and the replication crisis
http://nagualero.com/gear-i-use
On: Context and caveats By @hankchizljaw
“I don’t want recommendations. I want content that I want. In other words, I want a content library.” Me too
New: The Power Of Unfinished • how to get more done and create work that gets noticed #ux #design #productivity
★ The Daring Fireball Election Desk Is Calling It: Biden Wins
The day after the 2016 election I was in Berlin giving a talk about the bias towards bad quantitative data. You can still watch it if you love to see a combination of hangover, despair, and irony.
Well, the cats outta that bag... yup, Chrome is working on ***CONTAINER QUERIES***. Squeee. If you'd like to sign up to test the prototype (when it's ready) and suggest new features, fill out this form!
It is time for us to change the way we involve clients and stakeholders in the design process, How to Make Design Approval Painless
The CMS UI Database: Cool project by @gadgetopia.
A recent in-depth analysis looks at the pressures and compromises faced by today's #AI teams. Accenture AI's @bobirakova and @ruchowdh explain.
The Design Systems team designs, builds, and maintains tools that help document visual systems and abstract design patterns, and enables more effective design communication.
Still thinking about @LMSacasas's framing of the "digital city" and the "analog city" as a way to think through online life and political consciousness. Taylor, Birkerts, Postman, + more here:
TIL a bill proposing a tax credit for those who volunteer time to open source has been introduced in the NY State Assembly every legislative session since 2009 but has never made it out of committee:
I'd love to see OSS included in Congress' definition of "infrastructure" next time they make a major infrastructure investment
The "iceberg" model: a powerful way to think about systemic change. We tend to focus on events above the waterline but the key levers for change are mental models at deepest level. Here's an "iceberg canvas" to help identify each level: By @Sys_innovation
Muslim immigrants behind the vaccine that could beat COVID-19? You love to see it: "Also in 2019, Dr. Sahin was awarded the Mustafa Prize, a biennial Iranian prize for Muslims in science and technology."
I didn’t think that my first mention in English Wikipedia would be under a “Controversy” heading, but thinking again, that makes a lot of sense in context: 🤪
🗓 Save the date! Our last #ShopifyPartnerTownHall of the year is coming up this December 3/4 Come wrap up the year with us and stick around for a long-awaited announcement on Sections Everywhere 🤩 Register now >>
Some teams end up leaving their waterfalls for whirlpools. They iterate to nowhere in particular. There's no real strategy, and no holistic end-to-end thinking. For them, it's a random walk (punctuated by stand ups and sprints)
From the archive: What you know about information architecture, might not be true - #Over10YearsBlogging
Many teams treat the meta-work as something you do on top of the "real" work. There's no time. But if you keep at it -- take the leap of faith, and carve out the time and energy -- there's a good chance your team will benefit.
Fourteen years ago, I wrote about "The First 85%." I still believe in this idea, and we're addressing that at Episerver with a new connection to @DivvyHQ.
“‘It’s not fair,’ said Shekinah, 17, who, after weeks trying to stay connected to classes through her cellphone, was finally able to get online regularly again last month through a Wi-Fi hot spot provided by the school.” —
getting back to sharing design research via Instagram stories ⚡️⚡️ 🏎 🏎
@sdw is your friend.
I've been using Tailscale to connect to my personal machines, but I just discovered subnet routing -- which means I could ostensibly connect a whole AWS VPC to Tailscale...
OKAY it's HERE 😛 ~ the ultimate doc for ~ ✹ ✹ CrEaToR iNsPo ✹ ✹ featuring links to websites, sounds, interactions, and portfolio links ~~ I will be adding to this doc so BOOOOKMARK IT ~~
#Drupal people, does anyone know how to alter the Big Pipe placeholder? It's a span everywhere but it'd be useful to be able to add custom markup per block (not just CSS styling) to avoid CLS or add skeleton 'loading' content. I found but nothing else.
For all your Jonesing For Hanging Out In A Coffeeshop While You Read needs, via @sparrowpost
We need metrics, but we also need to increase the concentration of moral & ethical thinking on technical teams. We need to figure out how to hire, train, and retain talent to that effect. That's how you find and prevent harms that metrics don't capture.
Apple will lower its commission to 15% if you make under one million US dollars per year. For small developers, this is fantastic news and overall it’s a good step in the right direction. In the bigger picture, more steps need to follow.
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axiomatic CSS
🆕 "Yes or No" — One checkbox vs two radio buttons. A quick and short post in which I collected the responses to this tweet #UX #HTML
Employing algorithmic layout design means doing away with @media breakpoints, “magic numbers”, and other hacks, to create context-independent layout components. Your future design systems will be more consistent, terser in code, and more malleable in the hands of your users and their devices.
How to create a movement, a must watch for systems innovators:
Thank you @tomscott for beautifully explaining the horrendous state of the web today and why GDPR is not the answer.
The dumpster fire is back on! Day two, now with an extra slippery ramp —> . It’s especially satisfying to see that ~3k people are watching the live stream and sharing the cathartic experience.
"I am just going to show you the bare minimum you need to make a WCAG-compliant responsive HTML table." says Uncle @aardrian […]
30+ Essential Service Design Books
Chatting with my mate who's cycling the Mae Hong Son loop in North Thailand: 600 kms and 13,000 metres of climbing in 6 days, with performance-enhancing Marlboros. (Usually he does this route leading tourists driving their own tuk tuks for his business ).
I gave a talk about trying to keep up with the latest and greatest tools and tech. I still think the concepts hold up.
RT @brucel: Welcome to Your Bland New World "The VC community is an increasingly predictable and lookalike bunch that just seems to follow each other around from one trivial idea to another.” (Via @tobie)
Welcome to Your Bland New World "The VC community is an increasingly predictable and lookalike bunch that just seems to follow each other around from one trivial idea to another.” (Via @tobie)
There are countless GUI toolkits in different languages and with diverse approaches to GUI development. Yet, diligent comparisons between them are rare. Whereas in a traditional benchmark competing implementations are compared in terms of their resource consumption, here implementations are compared in terms of their notation. To that end, 7GUIs defines seven tasks that represent typical challenges in GUI programming. In addition, 7GUIs provides a recommended set of evaluation dimensions. One might wonder why such a project is useful. First, GUI programming is in fact not an easy task. 7GUIs may help in identifying and propagating better approaches to GUI programming, ultimately pushing programming forward. Second, alternative approaches to GUI programming and programming in general gained in popularity. Understanding the advantages and disadvantages of these alternatives versus the traditional OOP & MVC GUI development approach is interesting. Finally, there was no widely used set of tasks which represent typical GUI programming challenges when 7GUIs was conceived (2014).
“Naples is the world’s last pagan city ... (At) Sansevero, the marble veil over Christ’s body is so impossibly thin, so they say, it cannot have been carved by Giuseppe Sanmartino, and must have been draped over him and turned to stone with a spell.”
Skeletons are a bit of an anti-pattern. They are Lilliputian lies you give the user with a grin. A bait-and-switch for the impatient. I urge you to reconsider them if you can. They may have their uses in some places, but they are not a good blanket approach.
Reviewing the martech and WCM landscape of 2020 - Part 1: revisiting some predictions (spoiler alert: not too shabby)
@awilkinson Whatever happened to ?
Experimenting with just using @airtable as an infographic repo. What do you think? Workable?
Emerging role in design orgs: The Super Senior Individual Contributor (Principal Designer, Design Architect)
@joelanman For the digital justice map we specifically avoided any journey paths. Just showed that there are lots of activities. That are going on in different clusters. With different people involved.
@pontifexmaximu5 @joelanman this and all the linked subchannels is everything I’ve collected:
I got tired of setting up grid systems for interface concepting, so I made a starter template with cross-device 8-point grids and 16-column layouts. There’s also a printable version with a dot grid. Hope it can be useful to you for sketching/wireframing:
Native CSS Masonry layout in just one extra line of code? Yes, please. Here it is working with CSS Grid in @FirefoxNightly More in by @rachelandrew
Apple makes a big, sexy landing page highlighting the #a11y features built into its products. Not unexpectedly, the big sexy landing page has WCAG A and AA level #a11y conformance errors, making it less than completely accessible. (1/2)
Just a really great piece from @sariazout on the coming era of community knowledge networks:
Friday night, getting things done: if you're a supporter of @Kawaakibi on @Patreon, then we now have perks, including regular AMAs + membership of our @discord server. Not a member already? You can be in 30 seconds:
If you're wondering what Google was so terrified of @timnitGebru publishing, I got a copy of the paper. Here's my best summary of what it says. Thank you to @emilymbender who coauthored the work for sending it my way.
#WarmData A brief piece on Warm Data. "The way that sense is made is not explicit. The way that sensemaking is often communicated is. This may very well prove to be the most significant obstacle in the current explosion of sensemaking attempts."
Pro tip: install “Toggle JavaScript”. I reckon it’s my most used extension, not just for progressive enhancement stuff, but for also making news sites actually readable:
Apple introduces AirPods Max. Active everything, $550. (Will be interesting to see where these fit in around quality stakes - Apple has never really tried to go high-end there)
"Platforms are the new public space, and subscriptions are the tax we pay to occupy it. This is almost enough to make one nostalgic for transactionality." Lots of great thoughts in this @_reallifemag piece on subscription/loyalty programs by @kneelingbus
The news that Nielsen is making an effort to improve their abysmal data quality to guide ad spend for offline & online channels hits like Fyre Festival for ad tech. They'll need to move mountains to create a tiny fraction of the value they're hinting at.
“We humans think we’re very smart. We know how to build bridges and microprocessors. So what? Do you know how to build a rainforest? An ocean? I didn’t think so. Nobody does. We are destroying things far, far beyond our capacity to create.”
Winter is coming. Kicking back off digital coffees to drag my extroverted self through it. Let's hang out?
Beyond excited – and nervous – to share a veeeery early sneak peek of what I've been working on 👀🐇 🕳 Meet:
This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a while.
We’ve all been there. A client or coworker shows us this amazing thing they (and maybe their entire team) have worked on for hours or weeks. They are so proud of it. It’s new or maybe it just looks new. They may or may not ask you what you think—but you’re there to experience it. And your brain quietly screams.
the new version of Mapbox GL JS will be proprietary
I made some updates to my #accessiBe post (additions, no re-writes). The second: Even #accessiBe’s Latest Release is Inaccessible Look at that contrast! Look at those flags (you can only look as they have no alt attributes)! h/t @karlgroves
Another great news publication shuts its doors. This cuts deep.
Some @MiroHQ activities I have been doing lately Link to board: I'll try to schedule another walkthrough if folks are interested.
@feather I read through WCAG and wrote out design criteria in my own words so it made sense to me as a designer. Might be helpful to others!
A Utility Class for Covering Elements, also with CSS Grid. By @MicheBarks.
Human-centered UX practices don't do nearly enough to address trauma, power dynamics, and self-care. In the latest Finding Our Way, @jjg and I get schooled by @vcastillo630 on these subjects and much more. Apple: Website:
Human-centered UX practices don't do nearly enough to address trauma, power dynamics, and self-care. In the latest Finding Our Way, @jjg and I get schooled by @vcastillo630 on these subjects and much more. Apple: Website:
The HTML Design Principles “Priority of Constituencies” section states: “In case of conflict, consider users over authors over implementors over specifiers over theoretical purity.” 8/20
Nice article on DesignOps from @alisonrand
i think "get your work recognized: write a brag document" is one of the most important blog posts I've written. Building a culture where people encourage each other to track & celebrate their accomplishments is really powerful.
@cydharrell @gregpak death to bullshit
Excited to announce that WeCommerce will begin trading on the TSXV under the symbol WE on Monday at 9:30AM EST. 🚀🚀🚀
Wow. I’m going to do a little thread on the many levels of awful here. Alt: “get a coronavirus test” page using Google’s reCAPTCHA asking for the site visitor to identify “crosswalks“.
spent the day daydreaming about building a tiny house by a lake and trying to come up with reasons why not to
“Google Fonts resources will be redownloaded for every website, regardless it being cached on the CDN. Self-host your fonts for better performance. The old performance argument is not valid anymore.” 👍🏻 Learned this a long time ago from @zachleat ’s work
This got buried earlier this year (story came out just as Covid was breaking in the West), but the invisible ways our digital behaviors contribute to climate change is one of the most important (and increasingly-relevant) issues of this decade - (1/2)
Mindwise: How We Understand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want - by Nicholas Epley
This is unfortunate. I use the @goodreads API to publish my reading list on my personal website. I will likely abandon Goodreads over this, unfortunately.
It probably isn't the case, but I can't help but think of this XKCD at times like these.
Really enjoyed these slides on reframing digital marketing by @willak. H/t @tomcritchlow for the share:
Great post by @nJim talking about the connection between the content models that drive a site, and the tailored editorial affordances that can make those models easier to manage!
Years back, @webmeadow built this gloriously explainable CKEditor toolbar for one of our clients () — it let them build longform case studies w/embedded structured modules, with the same conventions they'd use to insert images or links.
Ran this webinar last week and I thought it was decent ... more examples than usual. Available on demand. Framing outcome-driven product bets link:
iPhone 12 Pro Camera Review: Glacier Each year I look forward to Austin Mann's iPhone camera review to see where he went (Glacier National Park, MT). This year is no exception.
The poor, where the e-waste is dumped, suffer unquantifiable and sometimes irreparable damage. Many materials used in mobile devices have carcinogenic properties when mishandled, and in some instances complications like mercury poisoning can arise.