How Designers Can Prevent User Errors | UX Tools
uxtools.co/blog/how-designers-can-prevent-user-errorsThere are lots of practical ways designers can help users avoid mistakes.
Blanked verse: the power of erasure poetry
theguardian.com/books/2021/nov/12/blanked-verse-the-power-of-erasure-poetryPoets have been constructing new work by selectively redacting others’ texts for decades, but Instagram and our political moment have spotlit this startling technique
Meet Holly Maniatty, the Wu-Tang Clan’s Sign Language Interpreter
slate.com/culture/2013/06/the-wu-tang-clan-sign-language-interpreter-how-holly-maniatty-learned-to-sign-for-rappers.htmlWhen Killer Mike took the stage last week at the Bonnaroo music festival, he spotted amid the crowd a white woman rapping along to his lyrics, shaking...
End-to-end product copy management | Strings.Design
strings.design/Strings is a content design and UX writing tool that helps software teams save time and improve their products
The straight men doing gay for pay on OnlyFans and JustForFans
dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/47929/1/straight-men-gay-for-pay-onlyfans-just-for-fans-masculinityThe popularity of the exclusive, X-rated content-hosting fan sites has seen a new generation of heterosexual men making soft porn accounts for gay audiences, and detoxifying masculinity on the way
Why is flaking so widespread in San Francisco? | devonzuegel.com
devonzuegel.com/post/why-is-flaking-so-widespread-in-san-franciscoIn an email exchange with Brian Lui, he asked me an interesting question about the rate of flaking in San Francisco: I had a brief question too. I've read that the rate of "flaking" in San Francisco is really high, because everyone is so busy and...
Normalization of deviance
danluu.com/wat/At large company B (LCB), ICs agreed that it's problematic to reward creating new features more richly than doing critical grunt work. When I talked to managers, they often agreed, too. But nevertheless, the people who get promoted are disproportionately those who ship shiny new things. I saw management attempt a number of cultural and process changes at LCB. Mostly, those took the form of pronouncements from people with fancy titles. For really important things, they might produce a...
How to Prepare for Thanksgiving Dinner
youtube.com/watchThis is my Thanksgiving Dinner checklist, but I've only ho...
Paintmakers Are Running Out of the Color Blue
bloombergquint.com/business/the-color-blue-has-joined-the-growing-list-of-material-shortagesDutch paint maker Akzo Nobel NV is running out of ingredients to make some shades of blue.
Coursicle | Loginless – A New Standard for User Identification
coursicle.com/blog/loginless-a-new-standard-for-user-identification.phpCoursicle will notify you when a class you want has an available seat as well as help you plan your schedule.
Could search engines be fostering some Dunning-Kruger? | Ars Technica
arstechnica.com/science/2021/10/people-think-they-remember-things-they-actually-looked-up-on-a-search-engine/Study shows that we think Internet searches are a sign we know more than we do.
The Methods of Moral Panic Journalism - by Michael Hobbes - Confirm My Choices
michaelhobbes.substack.com/p/moral-panic-journalismScare stories on "left-wing illiberalism" display a familiar pattern.
