Weekend Reading — Real hacking

Design Objective What Is a Card? Cards are more than just boxes of content with distinct border: A card is a single unit of content or functionality, presented in a concise visual package. More advanced cards use that form to surface content or functionality from other apps, and allow users

Weekend Reading — Time has stopped

Design Objective What car park payment machines can teach us about usability: So car park payment machines teach us that the best user interface is no interface. But also: Car park payment machines teach us that usability is a differentiator only when customers have a choice. A Map of White

Weekend Reading — Strangers getting into cars

San Francisco described in a 1930s history book Design Objective Day 18, part 3: I quit Blind person's experience of Android. Usability issues I didn't know about, like: And this was when I realized that TalkBack does not have a screen curtain. On iOS, I have

Weekend Reading — Armed and Dangerous

Armed and Dangerous Design Objective Design Triggers Fantastic resource courtesy of Zurb: Design Triggers comprise a collection of common psychological motivators, cognitive biases, and behavior patterns, you can use to plan entire workflows. How to Reduce E-Mail Input Errors Designing for B2B is No Different From Designing for B2C: However,

Weekend Reading — git commit upworthy

Tools of the Trade How we make RWD sites load fast as heck Async and inline all the things (in the critical path). Related, Above-the-fold CSS Tools. Semver has failed us Version numbers are for people to read, and incidentally for machines to interpret. That's why I don&

Weekend Reading — Acquihire

Design Objective Let's play a game. Guess which color is for links, which for plain text, which for input field placeholders The VP of Devil’s Advocacy: The answer, it seems, is that most of those people were likely too close to the projects to see what was

Weekend Reading — The New Math

The new math Design Objective Creating distraction-free reading experiences: It’s our job as designers to bring clarity back to the digital canvas by crafting reading experiences that put readers first. Try something new on every project: All it takes a little bravery. Throw caution to the wind, take a

Rounded Corners — American Ninja

[Kacy Catanzaro at the 2014 Dallas Finals](http://youtu.be/XfZFuw7a13E) Design Objective There Is No Page Fold Catering to your colorblind users What if all web sites supported the .colorblind CSS class? Drunk User Testing "The first usability testing tool that tells you how your site performs in

Weekend Reading — Phone booths

Design Objective The Product Thesis: While I’ve always tried to be customer- and data-driven, I struggled with communicating all the information locked in my head to the rest of the team. They needed to know why we were building a new feature and all the necessary information to build