Weekend Reading — Low Budget Reboot

Craig Pearson "I'd watch this low budget Firefly reboot" Design Objective Remove to Improve Fantastically illustrates how to improve every visualization by simply taking things out. Whether it's charts, tables, or maps. Tools of the Trade How we got 1,500 GitHub stars by

Weekend Reading — Relationship Saving Station

Redditors design worst volume sliders possible. Design Objective Writing for UX: some practical tips A few simple writing tips to keep in mind when writing for user experience. Cultural Blind Spots in UX Designing for international markets is about understanding the nuances, starting with how cultures look at web pages

Weekend Reading — Keeping an eye on it

Alta. man mowing lawn during tornado was 'keeping an eye on it' 😮 Design Objective In the future, design principles won’t be about design Leveling up: But as the industry evolves and concepts such as simplicity, consistency and accessibility become unquestionably valuable, design principles will be more about

Weekend Reading — Summer's back!

Christoph Niemann "Summer's back!" (more fun 2.5D art on his Twitter) Design Objective Product Design Exercises We Use At WeWork Interviews The "Dribbblisation of Design" gets us pretty, but useless products. Here are 17 exercises you can do to hone your product thinking

Weekend Reading — :x is the hardest problem in computer science

Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim Design Objective Better Form Design: One Thing Per Page A case study in improving UX by focusing on one task per page. And 16 reasons why you'd want to do that: 16. When we’re designing a complex flow, breaking

Weekend Reading — It works!

Ⓒⓐⓡⓞ "the best laptop stickers 😂" Design Objective Craft by InVision Build prototypes directly inside Sketch. Ben Schwarz: Real world connectivity: Beyond the bubble "We need to stop optimizing for $3000 computers on a fast connection." Josh Clark Q: Where's the fold in web design? A:

Weekend Reading — Just patch it

Josh Gondelman "At the very least, you've got to use a smaller font, guys." Design Objective Design Better Data Tables This article is an illustrated collection of data table design patterns: Good data tables allow users to scan, analyze, compare, filter, sort, and manipulate information to

Weekend Reading — How likely are you to recommend?

Colm Design Objective Meetup: A Usability Case Study Tweaking and fixing usability issues in the new Meetup app (ps: this is a passion project, not affiliated with Meetup). Mobile First, Desktop Worst Mobile-first is not a license to over-simplify, just like desktop-first is not a license to over-complicate. Designing forms

Weekend Reading — A handle on this

Hsing-Hui Hsu "I thought I had a handle on this" Design Objective Information Architecture. The Most Important Part of Design You’re Probably Overlooking. Indeed: Tips for Creating Good, Clean Information Architecture 1. Be very clear about what’s important (and what isn’t). 2. Think in terms