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

Weekend Reading — Rick and Morty

Nature is Amazing "Can watch it whole day long 😍" Design Objective Jorge Arango 🤔 Progressive Image Loading using Intersection Observer and SQIP SQIP = Low Quality Image Placeholders, but with SVG: The idea behind this technique is that on a slow connection, you are able to present the user with

Weekend Reading — Belgian whistles

Fluff Society "Baby starfish learning to starfish" Design Objective The State of UX for 2018 Voice, conversational interfaces, micro-interactions, useful animations, VR still a fad, and much more. The User Experience of Design Systems Takes a long look at design systems in general, Material Design in particular, and

Weekend Reading — Let that sink in

Cute Baby Animals "This is the best thing on the internet today." Design Objective H Λ N И Λ H Is your product useful or entertaining? Designing for trust > delight The rest of the world outside of the tech bubble could care less about 'delight'

Weekend Reading — Need copy and link

Design Objective @mcclure111 "Here, modern design's tendency toward cryptic, monochrome icons created a situation where VS Code seems to be communicating to me that setting barrels of oil on fire makes it happy" Tools of the Trade @estellevw If I had a penny for every time

Weekend Reading — Codeapillar

Heidi Howard "It seems it’s never to early to start learning computer science, even at age three #codeapillar #STEMtoys" Tools of the Trade The new Firefox It is fast. It is pretty. It eats up less memory. It includes some ad blocking tech. It's a

Weekend Reading — Animojikaraoke

Mia Harrison "And then we proceeded to waste half our day. #animojikaraoke #iphonex #queen #bohemianrapsody #carriedaway" Design Objective UI backwards compatibility Entirely agree, we need do better with breaking UI changes: The case for the case for UI backwards compatibility is arguable weaker than the case for API

Weekend Reading — Bagel Seeds

Thomas Baekdal "I think we need to have a discussion about how Google's burger emoji is placing the cheese underneath the burger, while Apple puts it on top" Design Objective Getting Users Psych'd—User Psychology for Better Onboarding Designing great on-boarding user flows starts