Weekend Reading — Pumpkin spice

Design Objective The Greatest Sales Deck I’ve Ever Seen How to tell the story of a software product/service with a slide deck. Tools of the Trade The math of CSS locks CSS doesn't have max-font-size or min-font-size, but this formula gives you the same effect: responsive

Weekend Reading — Fidgety

Design Objective A Bad Product Decision "Fuck-ups will happen. You won’t be perfect. But it doesn’t mean you can’t be a great PM." Five tips for improving your technical writing and documentation. Get more users and fewer support requests by leveling up your writing and

Weekend Reading — Not a morning person

15 things people who love to sleep truly understand Design Objective Tutorial: CSS Fixed Positioning in Interactive Email Cool trick that adds animation to emails by using CSS position: fixed. Ways To Reduce Content Shifting On Page Load Content shifting on page load is annoying. No one likes it. Here

Weekend Reading — The hardest problem in computer science

Design Objective When to Use a Switch or Checkbox What I love about this post is, once you spend a few minutes thinking about it, it's pretty obvious and easy to remember: You should only use switches on settings that need to take effect instantaneously. If a setting

Weekend Reading — Full-stack boyfriend

Design Objective UX for Engineers Yes, engineers can do UX, because UX is not about things like “shared aesthetic vocabulary” — UX is about making something that works. Or as Assaf (not me) summarizes it: Think of the user as the final integration in the application stack. Great Products Don’t

Weekend Reading — Mornings are hard

Design Objective Hypothesis driven UX design This, so much this: 1. Take your assumptions and state them as explicit hypotheses 2. Let your team buy into stated hypotheses 3. Force yourself to design according to your hypotheses 4. Force yourself to test against your hypotheses 5. Create a culture of

Weekend Reading — Do dates make you nervous?

Design Objective Design Better Data Tables How to display tabular data: Tables might be boring, but they are such a major element of any data-rich document that they’re worth every ounce of design thinking we can apply to them. Making a case for letter case Just as title case

Weekend Reading — The Churn

Design Objective 4 ways I’ve fucked up as a designer Solid takeaways, like this one: Don’t skip process. User flows? User scenarios? User stories? User jokes? User lollipops and user flashlights and user sinuses? Yes please, give it all to me. I don’t care if it exists

Weekend Reading — Laser Flip Triple Set

Design Objective Transit Maps: Apple vs. Google vs. Us Transit App explains how they render their transit maps. @tw: Short, sweet, 100% effective: Engineer's guide to good design: 1. Build it how you would want it 2. Remove half the functionality 3. Double the whitespace Psychology of Design