Victor Loux — bookmarks

CSS Auditing Tools — Smashing Magazine

smashingmagazine.com/2021/03/css-auditing-tools/

In a new short series of posts, we highlight some of the useful tools and techniques for developers and designers to get their work done better and faster. Starting out with a few tools for getting to the bottom of CSS.

Baserow: Open source online database tool

baserow.io/

tBaxter/questions-for-employers

github.com/tBaxter/questions-for-employers

Principle

principleformac.com/

Mobbin - Latest Mobile Design Patterns

mobbin.design/

The user research platform for teams – Dovetail

dovetailapp.com/

Dovetail helps you store, analyze, and collaborate on user research in one place, making it easy to see patterns, discover customer insights, and decide what to do next. Our customers include Boston Consulting Group, Cisco, CSIRO, Deliveroo, Elsevier, Kayak, Mastercard, Sketch, Shopify, Square, Thoughtworks, and VMware.

Know your “One Job”, continued – charity.wtf

charity.wtf/2021/03/09/know-your-one-job-continued/

Holy macaroni batman, I was not expecting that post to ignite a shitstorm. It felt like a pretty straightforward observation: you were hired to do a job, you should do your best to do that job. Interestingly, the response was almost universally positive for the first 8 hours or so. But then the tide began…

Know your “One Job” and do it first – charity.wtf

charity.wtf/2021/03/07/know-your-one-job-and-do-it-first/

The Power User Curve: The best way to understand your most engaged users at andrewchen

andrewchen.com/power-user-curve/

PLACEBOS. Facing a long plane trip with a nasty… | by Seth Godin | Medium

sethgodinwrites.medium.com/placebos-6f3bc4456eaa

“Excuse me, do you have any placebos? I have a really horrible cold… I’ll take the strongest one you’ve got.” “Hey Sylvia,” she yelled, “there’s a guy out here who wants some placebo, but he doesn’t…

Inside the ‘Covid Triangle’: a catastrophe years in the making | Free to read | Financial Times

ft.com/content/0e63541a-8b6d-4bec-8b59-b391bf44a492

Three east London boroughs were already at breaking point. Then the pandemic struck

This Word Does Not Exist

thisworddoesnotexist.com/

I have one of the most advanced prosthetic arms in the world — and I hate it

inputmag.com/culture/cyborg-chic-bionic-prosthetic-arm-sucks

Decades of research reveals very little difference between male and female brains - The Academic Times

academictimes.com/decades-of-research-reveals-very-little-difference-between-male-and-female-brains/

What is design debt?

thoughtbot.com/blog/what-is-design-debt

What does this look like in the real world? Imagine our team is working on a personal training app that lets users get on-demand virtual training from available trainers. We’ve decided to launch a new feature that also prompts the user to order fitness products. We assume this will be a bonus revenue stream. It makes sense, right? Shouldn’t more opportunities to make money = more money? If our team had done some user interviews and user testing, what we would have actually learned is...