Victor Loux Bookmarks

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Good Meetings | CSS-Tricks

css-tricks.com/good-meetings/
Like it or not, meetings are essential to a good working environment and communication. Therefore, it’s crucial that we work on making them as productive

The 3 principles of designing for flow

blog.superhuman.com/how-to-design-for-flow/
The flow state unlocks creativity and turns work into play. With Rahul Vohra's 3 principles, you can design experiences that cultivate this elusive state.

Personas aren't bad, and you're not a bad designer for using them | Andy Budd

andybudd.com/archives/2019/02/personas_arent_bad-_and_youre_not_a_bad_
With disturbing regularity, my Twitter stream seems to explode with posts demonising commonly used, yet seemingly harmless design tools. These posts take great pains to document all the ways these tools have failed people in the past (while downplaying or ignoring situation where they may have helped).

What to Include in Your Design Portfolio | Andy Budd

andybudd.com/archives/2021/06/what-to-include-in-your-design-portfolio
The purpose of a portfolio site is simple: to showcase the skills you have to the people who might want them. As such I’m often surprised when I see folks who describe themselves as UX/UI designers, choose to focus their portfolio on the UI side of the equation. It feels to me that these people may be selling themselves short by only focusing on a fraction of their skill-set, but before I jump into details, let’s start with some caveats. 

Magnitudes of exploration. | Irrational Exuberance

lethain.com/magnitudes-of-exploration/
Standardizing on a given platform or technology is one of the most powerful ways to create leverage within a company: improve the tooling a bit and every engineer will get more productive. Exploration is, in the long run, an even more powerful force, with successes compounding over time. Developing an investment thesis to balance the ratios and timing of standardization and exploration is a core challenge of engineering strategy.

Your product is a joke - The Paperclip by eesel.app

eesel.app/blog/your-product-is-a-joke
eesel automatically brings together all your work in one place. Google docs, Figma designs, Salesforce opportunities, LinkedIn profiles, Intercom conversations and even custom tools your company built - if it has a URL, eesel can save it.

eesel - All your work in one place

eesel.app/
eesel automatically brings together all your work in one place. Google docs, Figma designs, Salesforce opportunities, LinkedIn profiles, Intercom conversations and even custom tools your company built - if it has a URL, eesel can save it.

Secure login with iCloud Keychain verification codes - WWDC 2021 - Videos - Apple Developer

developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10105/
Learn how you can support on-device verification codes in your app or website for a more secure sign-in experience. We'll explore the...

Always be quitting - jmmv.dev

jmmv.dev/2021/04/always-be-quitting.html
A good philosophy to live by at work is to “always be quitting”. No, don’t be constantly thinking of leaving your job 😱. But act as if you might leave on short notice 😎. Counterintuitively, this will make you a better engineer and open up growth opportunities. A thread 👇.

What the Fastly outage can teach us about writing error messages | OnlineOrNot

onlineornot.com/what-fastly-outage-can-teach-about-writing-error-messages
As developers, we can *definitely* do better than 'Error 503 Service Unavailable' when it comes to error messages. This article shows you how.