Weekend Reading — Easy schleping

Biisuke Ball's Big Adventure Part 2 Brilliant. Design Objective Everyone is a designer. Get over it. Exactly: Whether you like it or not, whether you approve it or not, people outside of your design team are making significant design choices that affect your customers in important ways. They

Weekend Reading — Burger wars

Downtown Josh Brown "I found it. The coolest dog of all time." Design Objective Factory vs. Studio Pick the right start conditions, the rest will follow: The first time I did this activity, I had no idea what to expect, but the results blew me away. Start conditions

Weekend Reading — We've come full circle

Ana Milicevic "We've come full circle ⭕" Design Objective Luke Wroblewski "not only do people prefer not entering city/state, they’re 93% faster when using ZIP to get both automatically." 2017 state of email report (PDF) 80 pages of what's new, what

Weekend Reading — Rolling out user stories

Patrick Wong "JIRA is rolling out stories" (Other apps adding stories to mock Facebook) Design Objective Design thinking lessons from our cats "Think inside the box." Meet the inventor of the electronic spreadsheet Dan Bricklin's TED talk, on how VisiCalc came to happen, and

Weekend Reading — The future is confusing

Matthew Deiters "The future is confusing" Design Objective Iteration is not design Iterations can help improve your designs, but "to mistake the design tool of iteration for design itself is a grave error." Strengthening Your Idea Muscles Write 10 ideas a day. How to design accessible

Weekend Reading — All boxes are cat-sized

@coderzombie Can't stop laughing. Design Objective Steve Sanderson "A heatmap visualisation of where the door handle should be:" LiquidText Inking The Liquid Text demo video is brilliant. This is one of the most interesting, tech-augmented, user interaction I've seen in a long while. I&

Weekend Reading — #WFH

JOE.co.uk #WFH Design Objective How a Facebook Designer Thinks "Julie Zhuo describes how the development of new features starts with three questions: What people problem are we solving? How do we know it’s a real problem? And how will we know if we’ve solved it?

Weekend Reading — Thread

Jason Diller "Thread" Design Objective This site is “taking the edge off rant mode” by making readers pass a quiz before commenting Smart: "The goal is to ensure that the commenters have actually read the story before they discuss it." Manisha Agarwal Software is like a

Weekend Reading — Tornado full of sharks

You Had One Job "Don't be afraid." FYI I'm traveling and AFK, so no Weekend Reading next week. I'll do my best to catch up when I come back. And also, if you know anyone who would enjoy Weekend Reading, send them