Weekend Reading — Straws Is a Distraction

Jeff Steck “Patented today: A heated decoy keyboard to keep your cat off your laptop. Patent No. 10398125.” Design Objective Design critiques at Figma Six different ways to do design critique. Exploring the reasons for Design Thinking criticism TL;DR Design thinking brings business and design together, good framework, misleading

Weekend Reading — Tiny hugs

Sketchplanations Delightful blog: “A weekly explanation in a sketch” (via peterritchie) Design Objective Why you’ve got UX and UI all mixed up My opinion as well: You can’t divorce UI design from UX design. If you are a UI designer you are effectively impacting the user experience. The

Weekend Reading — DoorDash for bears

Bertram The Pomeranian has an Instagram and it's too cute for words

Weekend Reading — Six to seven washing machines

“when the requirements change but you already finished the feature”

Weekend Reading — Known issue, closed as duplicate

Ellie Murray “Remember, just because we can get a number, doesn’t mean we have a meaningful answer.”

Weekend Reading — M does project management

francesc “Documentation might be outdated” Design Objective Erin "the UI is super intuitive" InteractionDesignOrg “User Shadowing: Observe Behavior Rather Than Opinions” Gavin Smith How to enterprise software: hey I won’t be available for the next couple hours everyone, I have to study @Workday’s novel of password

Weekend Reading — Redesign the landing page

Chris Shehan_Art “I hope there’s a post-credit scene at the end of the Mr. Rogers movie where Bob Ross shows up and teases the PBS Cinematic Universe.” Design Objective HaraldurThorleifsson Sigh. Yes: 1. Most businesses don't understand design very well. 2. Most designers don't

Weekend Reading — After this week things will slow down

Josh Constine “When people ask why I work from home so much” Design Objective Steve Schoger Dark mode is not simply the inverse of light mode: 🔥 When implementing dark mode, don’t throw away the visual cues in the light version by naively inverting the color scheme. Close elements should

Weekend Reading — "This is a great start!"

storyofmyfuckinglife This could be the title of my autobiography. Design Objective Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design The iMac's hockey puck mouse, the MacBook's butterfly keyboard, the Apple TV remote, the list goes on: The quote often attributed to Einstein is “everything