The economics of vending machines
thehustle.co/the-economics-of-vending-machines/[…] Ibanez’s YouTube channel, which chronicles his life as a vendor, boasts 362k subscribers and now earns more than his machines.
VimeJS
vimejs.com/Vime is a customizable, extensible, accessible and framework agnostic media player.
Meet Alva
meetalva.io/Create living prototypes with code components. Design with the same components your engineers are using for production.
Social Cooling - Big Data's unintended side effect
socialcooling.com/Social Cooling: is big data making us more well behaved.. but less human?
When fonts fall
figma.com/blog/when-fonts-fall/A deep-dive into font fallback
A Better Code Review | Gilad Peleg
giladpeleg.com/blog/better-code-review/"Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson." T.S. Eliot Contributing to a project is not an easy task, especially if you're new to the project, new to…
People expect technology to suck – kbps
kilobitspersecond.com/2020/09/22/people-expect-technology-to-suck/A few jobs ago, I was helping someone with a small tech issue, standing over their shoulder at their computer. The screen was unbelievably dark; I’m not exaggerating when I say it looked to be near 0% brightness. For all I knew, this person had some vision sensitivity or just a basic personal preference that […]
UX Hiring: The Power of the Screening Question | by Jared M. Spool | UX Strategy Playbook with Jared Spool | Medium
medium.com/creating-a-ux-strategy-playbook/ux-hiring-the-power-of-the-screening-question-3ba4855b6ea1We use a tailored form of this question when we’re helping clients with their UX hiring. While the specific question we ask candidates will vary, it does the same thing each time: It tells us which…
Design Thinking is a Rebrand for White Supremacy | by Darin Buzon | Medium
medium.com/@dabuzon/design-thinking-is-a-rebrand-for-white-supremacy-b3d31aa55831Essay on the relationships between Design Thinking, Modernism, and white supremacy.
Why Do We Blame Women For Prohibition? - POLITICO Magazine
politico.com/magazine/story/2019/01/13/prohibition-women-blame-history-223972One hundred years later, it’s time to challenge a long-held bias.
city game tileset by withering systems, loren schmidt, Everest Pipkin
withering-systems.itch.io/city-game-tileseta hand drawn, pen and paper isometric asset pack
Disrespectful Design—Users aren’t stupid or lazy – Somehow Manage
somehowmanage.com/2020/09/13/disrespectful-design-users-arent-stupid-or-lazy/It's a common narrative in tech to design products with the assumption that users are stupid and lazy. I think that is both disrespectful and wrong. The idea is rooted in a lot of research around product usability, but it has been bastardized. Thing of it as a perversion of the Don't Make Me Think…
15 years of blogging (and 3 reasons I keep going) - Austin Kleon
austinkleon.com/2020/09/09/15-years-of-blogging-and-3-reasons-to-keep-going/A celebration of my little piece of turf on the internets.