Follow ↗ The Outline newsletter from Design Week. There are too many newsletters I feel (though I understand why), but this one is brilliantly done by Design Week. A daily update of interesting snippets that s not overwhelming due to its concise and well written format. Along with design thinking, it s become one of the newsletters [ ]
A thoughtful piece from James Horton. A shame it s on Substack. Focusing on what he calls the toxic preconditions of writing. There s lots of great advice on undoing these preconditions. All written in a very friendly and encouraging way. However, this last paragraph struck a chord with the issue I had with the piece personally. [ ]
Back to the Future, Part 1 – When Doc just can’t get the cables to connect. He s so close to getting Marty back home, but the disconnect is real. A solution must be found. A recent addition to my collection of personal parables, but one I’m noticing more and more. It pops up when I [ ]
Lots of good snippets in this thread by Amber Case, that UI designers should either know, or pay close attention to. A twist and rephrasing of form follows function , via the story of her friend working in a startup… …her user experience designer kept getting into the detail about how the user interface *looked* When [ ]
I nearly scrolled past this UX is Dead post, trying not to take what looked like clickbait, but the idea that UX is evolving is one that I thoroughly agree with. My take though, is less about gradual evolution and more analogous to Jevons Paradox – the idea that when something becomes more efficient or easier, demand for [ ]
While awaiting the arrival of The Limits to Growth (a 2004, 30th year update version I found on World of Books ), I ve been looking around the web for articles and snippets on Donella Meadows. Sadly, there aren t nearly enough considering how smart and prophetic she seemed. To increase what s out there, with her name [ ]
There’s an independent builders merchant near me that I try to use instead of the big national chains. I was wondering what they had in stock, so had a quick search for their website. Search term: Chalford building supplies. Results: No website link. Reluctantly, I tried their Facebook page in search for a website link, [ ]
The story of a rodent s unrelenting quest for happiness and fulfilment. Relatable. Brilliant work that I enjoyed revisiting.
This began as a short post, that got longer, and added to, and added to some more, before becoming a seemingly messy collection of disparate opinions. There s a thread running through it though, so hang in there! Pretend it s like one of Matt Webbs fascinating Filtered for… posts. This one, filtered for ease, cognition, friction, [ ]
I ve used thriva.co since 2017 and their testing box still delights me every time! Such a fun mechanism. The instructions could easily fit inside a regular box so it s fairly pointless if you think about it practically but in this case, sod practicality, we need more delight. Finding delight, and Thriva I was approaching 40 [ ]