Weekend Reading — 238 Years Later

The Story Behind This Incredible Photo Of A Monkey Using An iPhone Design Objective Interface Moss: When software in a particular category stops rapidly evolving and its interface begins to develop along a set of accepted patterns, designers begin to decorate. … Prolonged times of slow evolution lead to decorative excess.

Weekend Reading — Brand engagement in the wilds

Brand engagement in the wilds (of Florida, I presume) Design Objective @lukew: The two workhorses of UI are inputs and IA. Visual design, though, gets all the love. @gem_ray: The world doesn't need new and innovative interaction patterns as much as designers believe. It just needs shit

Weekend Reading – .DS_Store

.DS_Store in real life Design Objective How Community Feedback Shapes User Behavior TL;DR downvotes lead to more but bad content, upvotes has neutral effect, no feedback and people leave. Tools of the Trade collections.js JavaScript implementation of common collections: lists, maps, LRU/LFU, sets, heap, etc. Omelette.

Weekend Reading — What programmers say

Design Objective Can the digital IKEA effect increase user engagement and brand loyalty? Designing for user involvement. Design Club - Super Mario Bros: Level 1-1 - Game Analysis Epic video analysis of how Super Mario Bros teaches you to play the game through level design. iOS 8: New Features The

Weekend Reading – Prevent cable company fuckery

Design Objective iOS 8 scans credit card details using iPhone camera Does your design considers sensors? What product designers can learn from iOS 8's iMessage changes This is an interesting look at how you grow new features and usage pattern into the UI, adding and simplifying at the

Weekend Reading – Demented Reality

Design Objective Client feedback on the creation of the Earth McSweeney at it's best: Re: the “sky”… not really feeling the color here. Would like something that pops more. Please send additional options. What Can Sending 2 Billion Emails Tell Us About Mobile Email Habits? Interesting findings from

Weekend Reading — Codependent watches

"Smart" watches 1982 vs 2014 Design Objective @stewart: Best #1 design tip: close eyes; take breath; clear mind; open eyes. Now pretend you're a human being who has to read/use/do this. Simple. Single Responsibility Designing better CSS by following the single responsibility principle. Das

Weekend Reading — "Word count"

Design Objective Leaving Pixels Behind SVG is the future, learn to design with vectors. Your syntax highlighter is wrong Some good, thought provoking ideas there. (I disagree with the conclusion, though, green/red are semantic colors for add/remove, using them simplifies the UI) It’s better for older workers

Weekend Reading — The truth behind open source

Design Objective Designing design tools takes a look at the latest crop of design tools: Origami, Marvel, Sketch, Maccaw, and friends. Redsgned is a showcase of the very best redesigns from across the web. Behavior Design teaches you the basics of designing products that change people's behaviors. This