Weekend Reading — Design in the real world

Design Objective Tone It Down — Write for grown-ups Personality and humor great nice, but your app’s UI should first and foremost help users get the job done. Front-load the valuable content, then if you must, tuck something funny or cute. Guillermo Rauch: “Paste and match style” should be the

Weekend Reading — Cards against compilers!

Design Objective Have Software Developers Given Up? I think our industry has a real quality problem. I don’t entirely know what the solution is. Buttons in Design Systems 12 tips for setting up a system that endures. Tools of the Trade datamade/parserator A toolkit for making domain-specific probabilistic

Weekend Reading — Now what?

Design Objective Designing a Better Notes App — Design + Sketch App Designing a simple note-taking app: from rough idea, through UX mapping, to low-fi UI sketches, and finally hi-fi interactive prototype. A* - A Truly Iterative Development Process In A*, the product owner has no vision of the solution, only a

Weekend Reading — What's the delta here?

How to Use Math Words to Sound Smart Design Objective Bots won't replace apps. Better apps will replace apps. Remember when on-demand/sharing economy was the Next Big Thing, and everyone went there, and then it turned out that it only works well in a few specific markets?

Weekend Reading — map/reduce Voltron

idiosynchris "Voltron: teaching kids distributed computing since 1984" Design Objective Why I love ugly, messy interfaces — and you probably do too Not all products benefit from ultra-minimalistic UIs: Products that solve big, hairy problems are life savers. I love using these products because they work so damn well.

Weekend Reading — Painters and Hackers

“Sprint planning” George Caleb Bingham, 1846 Design Objective Peter Lyons I'm a web developer. I don't click the back button. That's like asking for a random problem. @DesignUXUI "When you think your design works perfect but then you do user testing…" Tools

Weekend Reading — Evening-oriented people will understand

Design Objective Introducing Design Systems Ops An interesting way to deal with the gap between design and engineering: A Design Systems Ops is a person who is part of a design systems team … At the same time, Design Systems Ops need to understand the engineering requirements … In a way, a

Weekend Reading — "Delete it!"

@benhtml "Delete it" This week I'm trying something new. It's the same Weekly Reading format, but I'm using a new tool called Revue to edit this issue. I hope you like it. Tools of the Trade Dirty Tricks From The Dark 
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Weekend Reading — Ohnosecond

@sdw "I label increasingly nonsensical images with ‘UI’ and ‘UX’ and hope they get used in serious presentations" This week we stay awake until 2AM because Photoshop; we Google "python curses"; we review the new O RLY? book; we learn about the ohnosecond; remember when computers