Weekend Reading — What if you didn't?

Real life charts Creatively made with real life objects. Design Objective 7 Practical Tips for Cheating at Design "Improving your designs with tactics instead of talent." 🤔 Designing Farrago Rogue Amoeba's new soundboard app, with its unique UI metaphor. Introducing C.A.R.E. – a simple framework

Weekend Reading — Cat just rang the doorbell

Lulu Cheng "I got 99 tabs but I generally know where things are" Design Objective Jules Forrest Brilliant. "Visual design crash course in roughly twenty seconds." 5 Rules for Designer-Engineer Collaboration Helping designers and engineers work together. OH no Type Co "EVERYBODY FALL IN LINE!

Weekend Reading — The tiger is out

hegemony snickett "...I think about how good this poem is at least twice a day." Design Objective meg "So here’s a thing I still have to remind myself basically every time I make an icon" Matt Adereth Pro tip: Radia Perlman told the perfect story

Weekend Reading — The importance of specificity

shley Mayer "We were promised flying cars, we got...a valuable lesson in the importance of specificity. 💁" Design Objective Laws of UX The core laws of UX, beautifully illustrated. How to improve your design process with copy docs How does your team manage copy? A copy doc is

Weekend Reading — Languages are bananas

From the amazing Miniature Calendar. Design Objective Dave Malouf 🤔 This notion that "it's all just a guess until we ship to production" flies in the face of decades of research in HCI, psych, etc. The point isn't knowing for sure, but increasing confidence as

Weekend Reading — Corner Computing

Chris Fralic "Once upon a time Packard Bell made a thing called a Corner Computer. To go in the corner." Design Objective Hawaii missile alert: How one employee ‘pushed the wrong button’ and caused a wave of panic Maybe not the best design choice: From a drop-down menu

Weekend Reading — Epic meltdown

So I've been sick for most of last week. Hence this edition of Weekend Reading is short and late. Feeling better now, thank you for asking. Also, traveling this week. So the next edition will also be short and late. Back to our normal schedule in the second

Weekend Reading — Waves and werewolves

Comfortably Smug "Humans definitely won't regret creating robot snakes with lasers on their heads" Design Objective Designing Better Design Documentation Some ways you can make documents clearer, better structured, and more appealing. Tools of the Trade osquery SQL queries for OS performance metrics (via): SELECT * FROM

Weekend Reading — Purritos

Architectural Turducken "Europe r u ok" Design Objective Serious products don’t have to be serious TL;DR The hierarchy of needs applies to all products, even money transfer is a feature that can delight users. Google Maps’s Moat Doesn't explain the moat, but does