Weekend Reading — Feelings with feelings

Design Objective A Matter of Principle Before you sit down to design, define your principles: Instead of relying on gatekeepers to keep a high quality bar, better instead that everyone gets to agreement on a smaller set of guiding values, so that the best decisions get made in a consistent

Weekend Reading — Ravioli Oriented Architecture

The evolution of software architecture Design Objective Avoid the Butt-Brush Effect I don’t think this effect is limited to the products in the physical world. There’s a mental butt-brush effect, and it happens every time that a software product makes its’ customers feel awkward, clumsy, or stupid. ... Customers

Weekend Reading — Things keep winning

The geek way of folding t-shirts Design Objective A New Yorker walks into a San Francisco start up… Designers will do anything to convince themselves we are not in a service industry. Why are we so desperate to make ourselves feel better? Because we feel GUILTY and we have to

Weekend Reading — Adventure Max

MAD MAX v. Adventure Time is just fantastic Design Objective 7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI and the second part. Written by and for non-designers, focuses on the basic skills you need get a functional design. The first secret of design is ... noticing (video) Tony Fadell on noticing the big

Weekend Reading — So Shiny, So Chrome

Via garywhitta Design Objective Instantiation A thoughtful piece about the sad state of web apps: Now you might be saying to yourself “Well, I’ve never made a bloated web page!” or “I’ve never slapped loads of intrusive crap over the content!” I’d certainly like to think that

Weekend Reading — 80 seconds per hash

By Joe Dator Design Objective Off By One Half Attention to detail is what sets products apart: If your wrist size lands in the “medium” zone on the Sport band, switching from the “Medium/Large” to the “Small/Medium,” or vice-versa, could be just the adjustment to help fine-tune the

Weekend Reading — Charged up

Charged Up by Ryan Selvy Design Objective Designing for Disappearing Interfaces The Internet of Everything: Once the traditional, physical screen boundaries have dissolved, interfaces will become more and more like fluid, organic, living things in order to integrate with us and our surroundings in the most natural way possible How

Weekend Reading — K Erning

jalbertbowdenii "winner of best virginia vanity plate goes to" Design Objective Redesigning Overcast’s Apple Watch app I love Overcast and the redesign kicks ass, because it understands that a watch is not just a smaller smartphone. Watches are different form factor, one-handed use, and shorter interactions, and

Weekend Reading — 0xB3 Bibbity Three

From 12 Tricks to Appear Smart in Emails Design Objective Nine User-Experience Tips to Rule Them All — Or something like that 2. Forget minimalist, simple design. For some products it works, for most it doesn’t. The most important thing in a product is accessibility - I should be able