Labnotes
December 23rd, 2017 5 min read

Weekend Reading β€” Purritos

Architectural Turducken "Europe r u ok" Design Objective Serious products don’t have to be serious TL;DR The hierarchy of needs applies to all products, even money transfer is a feature that can delight users. Google Maps’s Moat Doesn't explain the moat, but does

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December 17th, 2017 6 min read

Weekend Reading β€” Rick and Morty

Nature is Amazing "Can watch it whole day long 😍" Design Objective Jorge Arango πŸ€” Progressive Image Loading using Intersection Observer and SQIP SQIP = Low Quality Image Placeholders, but with SVG: The idea behind this technique is that on a slow connection, you are able to present the user with

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December 9th, 2017 7 min read

Weekend Reading β€” Belgian whistles

Fluff Society "Baby starfish learning to starfish" Design Objective The State of UX for 2018 Voice, conversational interfaces, micro-interactions, useful animations, VR still a fad, and much more. The User Experience of Design Systems Takes a long look at design systems in general, Material Design in particular, and

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December 2nd, 2017 6 min read

Weekend Reading β€” Let that sink in

Cute Baby Animals "This is the best thing on the internet today." Design Objective H Ξ› N И Ξ› H Is your product useful or entertaining? Designing for trust > delight The rest of the world outside of the tech bubble could care less about 'delight'

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November 25th, 2017 5 min read

Weekend Reading β€” Need copy and link

Design Objective @mcclure111 "Here, modern design's tendency toward cryptic, monochrome icons created a situation where VS Code seems to be communicating to me that setting barrels of oil on fire makes it happy" Tools of the Trade @estellevw If I had a penny for every time

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November 18th, 2017 5 min read

Weekend Reading β€” Codeapillar

Heidi Howard "It seems it’s never to early to start learning computer science, even at age three #codeapillar #STEMtoys" Tools of the Trade The new Firefox It is fast. It is pretty. It eats up less memory. It includes some ad blocking tech. It's a

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November 12th, 2017 5 min read

Weekend Reading β€” Animojikaraoke

Mia Harrison "And then we proceeded to waste half our day. #animojikaraoke #iphonex #queen #bohemianrapsody #carriedaway" Design Objective UI backwards compatibility Entirely agree, we need do better with breaking UI changes: The case for the case for UI backwards compatibility is arguable weaker than the case for API

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November 4th, 2017 6 min read

Weekend Reading β€” Bagel Seeds

Thomas Baekdal "I think we need to have a discussion about how Google's burger emoji is placing the cheese underneath the burger, while Apple puts it on top" Design Objective Getting Users Psych'dβ€”User Psychology for Better Onboarding Designing great on-boarding user flows starts

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October 28th, 2017 5 min read

Weekend Reading β€” WiFi Cable

Joe Berkowitz "Glitches in the reality simulation are becoming more profound each day." Design Objective From boiling lead and black art: An essay on the history of mathematical typography An interesting read on typography, from Gutenberg through Knuth, especially as it relates to mathematic textbooks. Luke Wroblewski From

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