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

Rounded Corners — Copy & change variable names

Design Objective “Please enter a valid last name” Getting UX right starts with a name. If Satan was a web developer Creative ways for making web forms harder to use. The Practical Dev margin-right: -100px !important; Tools of the Trade Abstract App “It’s a version controlled workflow, built on

Weekend Reading — Old Fashioned Tumblers

Design Objective How to do a Product Critique It just has to happen because you’re curious, over and over and over again. Because you want to learn how to build good things. Watch and learn. That’s all there is to it. Aaron Hodder "Someone wrote this:"

Weekend Reading — When toasters attack

Design Objective How the Web Became Unreadable "I thought my eyesight was beginning to go. It turns out, I’m suffering from design." Tools of the Trade google/highwayhash Addressing performance and security, this package includes a faster version of SipHash, a data-parallel variant of SipHash using tree

Weekend Reading — That part's highlighted

Design Objective A Glimpse into the Future of Messaging-First Onboarding A case study on designing the on-boarding experience for the Slackbot Troops. Manisha Agarwal OH: Software is like a pinball machine. Nobody reads the printed instructions clearly.They just drop their quarters & start pushing buttons Amir Shevat Spot on.

Weekend Reading — Yeah no for sure

Design Objective Rethinking URL bars as primary browser UI The time for address bars is past, and I buy this argument: "Our ability to understand who we’re talking to on the web is underpinned by search engines." Case Study: Re-designing RetailTower I love detailed case studies like

Weekend Reading — Double double

Design Objective Metrics Versus Experience Bad decisions can be made in the name of "lifting metrics", that doesn't mean metrics are bad. Julie presents her framework for using metrics effectively: * To assess for product-market fit, look at retention. * To optimize for growth, understand your funnel. * Figure

Weekend Reading — #ItCanWait

Design Objective Chatbots: Your Ultimate Prototyping Tool How chatbots can teach us what people need when designing products and services. Paul Stamatiou "when the engineer only reads half of your email about the design" Tools of the Trade Homebrew 1.0.0 Happy birthday! I'm most