Weekend Reading — Talking to their computer and drinking coffee

Jimi Fletcher “It's Halloween, 2019. This is the very last day we can refer to Blade Runner as a film that's set in the future.” Design Objective Perfectly Cropped Pixel perfect UX mistake. Jonathan Waddingham “NOvember” 💡 Product people - for the next month, try to push

Weekend Reading — All I see is hummus

“Staying organized, writing lots of notes, and blocking out calendar time helps.”

Weekend Reading — I am a little surprised to hear this

“It’s more than 50 years old. There are no outstanding user complaints. There are no crash reports. And support is still available.”

Weekend Reading — Get really good at spreadsheets

“Totally here for classic muscle cars with little stuffed animals on the front grill”

Weekend Reading — Between two bathroom breaks

Meriel “This is amazing! Look at the last one!” Design Objective The Subtle Technique Mailchimp Uses to Emotionally Hook Customers Outcome selling vs feature selling: Here’s what Outcome-Selling basically means: Don’t sell your product. Sell the best possible outcome that a customer can get from using your product.

Weekend Reading — Days Since Last Timezone Issue

Dogs In Action Amazing photo collection! (via greywulf) Design Objective Cheat sheets: UI terms 👍 Super helpful: Using professional UI terms aligns with the efficiency and accuracy of communicating your thoughts in a cross-functional team. It benefits you as a product designer in various aspects. However, It is time-consuming of looking

Weekend Reading — Where's dark mode?

divinetechygirl “And then there’s this accurate depiction of everything tech twitter 😂” Design Objective Mind the gap, user centered design in large organizations with Luke Wroblewski Why most "user-centered" design isn't, and how we can address that. (Slides) Chris Owens Copy is UI: "Note: Hiding

Weekend Reading — Anxiety Juice™

system32comics “Printers Nowadays” Design Objective Designing a chair: A story about Junior vs. Senior Designers. An explainer of the famous quote: Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment

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