Labnotes
November 25th, 2017 5 min read

Weekend Reading — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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'd—User Psychology for Better Onboarding Designing great on-boarding user flows starts

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October 28th, 2017 5 min read

Weekend Reading — 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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October 21st, 2017 6 min read

Weekend Reading — Recombobulation Area

Aidin Vaziri "We now basically live on a planet from Star Wars." Design Objective Google is Really Good at Design They've done a remarkable job shifting away from feature-obsessed engineering, and towards user experience, aesthetics, and maybe someday even brand appeal? As an aggressively engineer-led company,

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October 14th, 2017 7 min read

Weekend Reading — Large cat spotted

UPS DOGS via @torclean Design Objective Instacart’s Lead Product Designer on Creating A Design System If at first you fail … Flat Design: Why you should question Nielsen Norman’s research on the trendy design style. You may remember from a few Weekend Readings back, that Nielsen Norman published this

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October 7th, 2017 5 min read

Weekend Reading — Monopoly Man

Kyle Griffin "There is someone dressed like the Monopoly Man at the Senate Equifax hearing." Design Objective Papyrus "He just got away with it. This...man...this...professional graphic designer..." DHH The performance differences are quite stark, and often you can tell a web app was

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October 1st, 2017 6 min read

Weekend Reading — Dr Brew

Fluff Society "The life every puppy should have" (video) Design Objective Chris Palmieri "This is how you design with graceful degradation: Muji's flashlight works whether you have one or four batteries, double or triple A." Hacking Tables in Sketch App From which I picked

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