Weekend Reading — Are you really running the code?

SS astronaut finds NASA floppy disks in space Windows 95. Mint condition. Buyer picks up. Design Objective This Is UX Writing at Its Very Best Examples of great microcopy, many puns, and even a brutally honest search filter: Alan Cooper This thread applies equally well to development practices and interaction

Weekend Reading — The Britney Spears effect

Artëm Chistyakov "Rembrandt, “A New Message in Slack”, 1633 #devart" Design Objective The Graphic Art of Incredibles 2 Behind the scenes look at the architecture, graphic design, and the two world fairs that inspired the Incredibles 2. The amazing attention to detail make it such a fun movie

Weekend Reading — Everyday cosplay

Guide to Computing Amazing photos, from when computers doubled as furniture. Design Objective Luke Wroblewski "people will scroll unless you tell them not to." Early Drafts Every great piece of work starts somewhere. Tools of the Trade Now 2.0 Zeit has built an incredibly easy to use

Weekend Reading — Eye of Sauron

Evan Kirstel "Genius! #makers #maker #WednesdayVibes" Design Objective Keith Stoeckeler “We know our users/customers" Ben Thompson Born in a different generation, I still Ctrl+S even when I don't need to: My daughter deleted an entire report because, after only using Google Docs previously,

Weekend Reading — If it fits between two slices of bread, it's a sandwich

The scariest idea I could think of for a spooky pumpkin 🎃👻😱 Design Objective UX Best Practices: How to Design Scannable App Screenshots This article walks you through practical ideas for making app screenshots that are more effective, informative, and enjoyable to look at. Which of course leads to more people

Weekend Reading — Furious mongoose

alex "A brief summary of me trying to follow any type of tutorial on the internet." Design Objective Des Traynor 🤔 There's something to it, at least this example proves the point: The opposite of a good product principle is itself a good product principle. Everything else

Weekend Reading — Fixed objects will move

Wes Miller "Excel, offering deep philosophy." Design Objective Things that might be missing from your job description All the things your design manager expects from you, even if they're not listed anywhere. For example: Be flexible; briefs change Find problems before they occur Bring energy to

Weekend Reading — The Mattress Economy

An artwork by Banksy shredded itself after selling for $1.3 million at Sotheby’s A stunt masterpiece only Banksy could create. Video h/t Zoe Smith Design Objective Why Small Teams Win And Bigger Ones Fail Why smaller teams are better at designing products. Thomas Wendt 💯 I always chuckle

Weekend Reading — Just Crawl It

Bruce Lawson "Every software project I've worked on since 1988." Design Objective Dave Herman So much this: Part of the design process is letting a thing get more complicated before it gets simpler again. Unnecessary complexity is often the result of lack of follow-through. You can&