Weekend Reading — Change my name and move to Alaska

Kevin Kuchta “Waiting for Cloudfront” Edgar Degas, 1880–82. Pastel on paper. (For more check out #ArtofAWS) Design Objective Luke Wroblewski "how to find usability issues: look for the 'band-aids'" Designer Challenges Himself To Create Logos With Hidden Meanings For A Year, And Result Is Amazing

Weekend Reading — Waffles!

Dean Alexander Amazing photo campaign for the Hong Kong Ballet (h/t Ohyo) Design Objective Robin Rendle "This is a seasonal reminder that http://codepen.io/patterns is the best resource if you happen to be researching a new design pattern." Hidden Sheep and Typography Archaeology Unpacking the

Weekend Reading – Service Burrito

Xavier Katana "The walkway is not spinning." Design Objective Steve Schoger In fact, if your UI looks like the database schema … 🔥 Don't be afraid to "think outside the database" — your UI doesn't need to map one-to-one with your data's fields

Weekend Reading — Silent GIFs

Emily "A visual representation of overthinking, anxiety, and paranoia" Design Objective Miles Skorpen When the UI element doesn't look like it's part of the UI: We saw the same issue with RedLaser. We made our "scan" button huge and different color from

Weekend Reading — 9 reasons why you should approve this PR

Pure CSS Francine This stunning image, in the style of 18th-century oil paintings, but hand-coded entirely in HTML & CSS. 🤯 Design Objective The Best Place for Error Messages on Forms TL;DR If you have time to implement error messages for both devices, opt for placing them to the right

Weekend Reading — Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0

Julien Kirch "When you discuss user stories points" Design Objective Kate Compton 💯 Bobby Laurie: PEOPLE: Listen to your flight attendants! ALMOST EVERYONE in this photo from @SouthwestAir #SWA1380 today is wearing their mask WRONG. Put down the phone, stop with the selfies.. and LISTEN. **Cover your NOSE &

Weekend Reading — Page 7

finestmarxman 🔥 🎙 FYI: I'm on vacation for the next couple of weeks, going to hang around England and Poland. Weekend Reading will be back April 28. Design Objective Here’s everything I’ve learned from designing 10,000+ UI screens as a lead product designer Nothing new, but very

Weekend Reading — Soul-Crushing Meeting

Fisher Price is getting it right 😭 Tools of the Trade There Keep track of who's working in what timezoe. Sasha Laundy 💯 "All code examples MUST work on copy-paste" was a core rule of Twilio docs in the early days. Played a huge role in successful developer

Weekend Reading — When the deadline comes too close

Franck D. Nijimbere "When the deadline comes too close" Design Objective A Guide to Information Architecture This: Having a single document that delivers a simple and understandable representation of how the application or website works is vital for developing new features, updating existing ones, and for seeing what