Weekend Reading — The Char Dog Race

rahel aima "who is the oasis bakery spices copywriter i just want to talk" Design Objective How VisiCalc’s Spreadsheets Changed the World It's the 40th anniversary of the first "killer app": Bricklin writes that he even got advice from some of his professors.

Weekend Reading — This will fix it! Nope.

Check out Fincky for more amazing FPV drone videos. Design Objective Aaron Levie 💯 As a startup, always bias toward simple. Customers will tell you when your product doesn't do enough, but will never ask for fewer features when they stop using your product because it's too

Weekend Reading — Symbol of Resistance

Scott Knaster Oh snap! "I'm so old I remember dark mode on the Apple ][." Design Objective Why Trust Matters Short and to the point deck about trust and brands. The one comment that turns me off when I'm interviewing designers TL;DR design is

Weekend Reading — Traci is willing to stay late

Josh Sternberg "Wonder how Ikea came to the decision to include this disclaimer." Design Objective Introducing Mercury OS Interesting UX. If you like working in the flow, check it out. Erika Hall 💯 Designers need to learn economics more than designers need to learn how to code. Digital design

Weekend Reading — Requiem for a heap allocation

Adam Graham "Whatever Twitter’s intentions were, this is what it has become" Design Objective I wrote the book on user-friendly design. What I see today horrifies me Don Norman on how design fails older consumers: Despite our increasing numbers the world seems to be designed against the

Weekend Reading — Minimizing Suffering

Jack Schaedler "A Map of the web from the perspective of an audio software developer. Complete with sea monsters. Not drawn to scale." Design Objective Present & Correct IRL legacy code: "A 'Thomasson' is an architectural relic which is useless yet still maintained." Natalie

Weekend Reading — Pothole Vigilantes

Greg Young "I had never seen this expressed in art before but brilliant!" Design Objective I Can Has Petz? The new Petbarn branding is brilliant. Pavel A. Samsonov 🧼 Someone bought the wrong soap, still good advice on UX: Your product must provide feedback to the user when a

Weekend Reading — With Pockets

Max. "David Bowie as Yerba Mate: a thread" This Weekend Reading is short and not on a weekend. Just returned from vacation, road trip through beautiful Montana and Idaho. Design Objective How Netflix’s Customer Obsession Created a Customer Obsession This article is full of nuggets, here'

Weekend Reading — Launch The Octopus

Scott Hanselman "I have never felt so special" Design Objective Doug Collins Way to drive the point home: Give your users a warning and an out before they take actions with potentially catastrophic consequences. #ux #design Sarah Federman 💯 Your periodic reminder that design is what ships, not what