Weekend Reading — Octlantis

Muselk "Whoever designed this floor is evil. THATS A FLAT CARPET." Design Objective Optical Effects in User Interfaces (for True Nerds) How to make optically balanced icons, correct shapes alignment, and perfect corner rounding. Tools of the Trade Tobie Langel "Finally captured a picture of the @github

Weekend Reading — Fibocatti

Emergency Kittens "chubby but mathematically perfect" Design Objective Mastering the Power of Nothing How to use whitespace in user interface design. How to Design a Form Wizard "Wizards are best employed for long and unfamiliar tasks that the user needs to complete once or rarely." Design

Weekend Reading — Struck by cow

Jaguar has restored this old E-type with an electric upgrade Classic styling and all new wirings. Design Objective Little UI Details The little details that make a big difference: Adding a subtle shadow to white text when on a bright background not only makes it more legible but helps it

Weekend Reading — The final boss

🌹PⒶVEL 🌹 "After you defeat all the other landscapers, you must face the final boss" Design Objective The One Question Great Designers Ask Hate the hyperbole, but agree strongly with the premise: Not “How should it work?” But “How should it work?” Ignore what everyone else is doing.

Weekend Reading — Low cost

Lowcostcosplay Epic! Design Objective Gojko Adzic 🤔 #1 reason for using post-its for user stories: if it's not done when the glue dries up so much to fall down from the wall, it's obsolete Stop Using The Cup of Coffee vs. $0.99 App Analogy Please. It

Weekend Reading — As a user …

Please and thank you. Design Objective Run The Joules The importance of diversity in tech: I almost got fired from my last job due to a similar technical issue. It's important to consider life experiences that differ from yours “As a user” needs to stop. Argues against cargo

Weekend Reading — Why are we doing this?

Fluff Society "Dog: This is NOT funny" Design Objective How we designed Foursquare Swarm 5.0 Designs needs to be implemented: Get engineers involved at the beginning. … Sometimes a tiny design decision can have a large technical impact. It’s on me to continue to get engineers involved

Weekend Reading — High five, fist bump

Jon Ostrower "Boeing 004, a 787 from BFI-BFI, files a flight plan: Route? Airplane. We’re going to draw an airplane" Design Objective Designing interactive experiences The ‘what, when and how’ of interactive prototyping. Mark Dalgleish My main beef with tools like Sketch and Photoshop is that they&

Weekend Reading — Touching … ugh … base

New Glassdoor survey reveals that the UK’s most annoying office buzzwords Design Objective Bobby Ghoshal 😱 Me: "Don't forget how far digital design has come since the nineties" --- NJ EZ-Pass: "Hold my beer." http://www.ezpassnj.com Tools of the Trade Chromeless Playground