Weekend Reading — A solar system in motion

Jennifer Harrison You're looking at a video of FOUR directly-imaged exoplanets orbiting a star. You're looking at another solar system in motion Design Objective Making input type=date complicated Don't worry about "looks the same in all browsers", instead focus on "

Weekend Reading — In defense of snuggies

Shen Me. Every night. Design Objective PEENT PEENT So that got me to stop and rethink a few things: Like, 90% of infomercial style products were designed by/for disabled people, but you wouldn’t know that, because there is no viable market for them. THey have to be marketted

Weekend Reading — huge if true

12 Dog Thoughts Design Objective Erika Hall A designer is a person who organizes choices. The better you understand the range and implications of choices, the better designer you are. Lessons Learned: Why Newton Swears by Plain-Text Emails TL;DR users respond when the email feels like a conversation. The

Weekend Reading — From one of the Henry's

jlmorrison "I think it's from one of the Henry's" Design Objective Brad Voytek "Neat. If you inspect the code for a Facebook photo, alt text reveals Facebook's computer vision interpretation of image contents." All of 2016’s top mobile apps

Weekend Reading — ; DROP TABLE "COMPANIES";-- LTD

Take a look behind-the-scenes with design documents from The Legend of Zelda! Design Objective What Comes Next Is the Future A beautiful documentary film about the web, its origins and future. Now I get it! How to design clarity in 3 steps. snipe "Gosh, if only someone would tell

Weekend Reading — I am not a robot

Leaked Footage of the Rogue One Sequel Design Objective The Four-Letter Code to Selling Just About Anything Cool is all about finding optimal newness: The highest evaluation scores went to submissions that were deemed slightly new. There is an “optimal newness” for ideas, Lakhani said—advanced yet acceptable. Tools of

Weekend Reading — The entire internet

joel "someone's cow just walked over and fell asleep on my legs?? and now i cant fucking move or ill wake her up" Design Objective Design words with data Should the button say "Log in"? "Sign in"? How about "Sign on&

Weekend Reading — My Partner Snores

Nat Pryce "The importance of isolating your microservices" Design Objective Jonathan Lupo Hear, hear: Biggest challenge in education is to divorce "Design" definition from aesthetics. #uxchat The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think Keep it extremely simple, or two thirds of the population

Weekend Reading — End of Code forWeb

Holiday and travel got in the way of publishing Weekend Reading, but I'm back and catching up on three weeks worth of fantastic links. "Uh oh" Design Objective The dangers of delightful design Everything, in context and in moderation: One thing I’ve learned is that