Victor Loux — bookmarks

Productivity Isn’t About Time Management. It’s About Attention Management. - The New York Times

nytimes.com/2019/03/28/smarter-living/productivity-isnt-about-time-management-its-about-attention-management.html

“Time management” is not a solution — it’s actually part of the problem.

Chasing 10X: Leveraging A Poor Memory In Engineering

senrigan.io/blog/chasing-10x-leveraging-a-poor-memory-in-software-engineering

When I was burned out and my software engineering career was collapsing, I found that using spaced repetition was the one thing that enabled me to improve faster than I had imagined.

Forget Your Middle-Class Dreams

jacobinmag.com/2019/03/middle-class-white-collar-unions-kickstarter

Design with Words - Erika Hall, Mule Design

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Interviewing: more than a user research method – UX Collective

uxdesign.cc/interviewing-more-than-a-user-research-method-81ab92420497

The first time I came across the concept of behavior as the medium of design by Robert Fabricant, it really hit home. As a designer, it is easy to fall into the trap of focusing only in the creation…

Writing clearer error messages – UX Collective

uxdesign.cc/writing-clearer-error-messages-d57d6f388140

Error messages. Let’s face it, there are a lot of bad ones out there. But when they’re good, they’re wonderful. Why? Because they enable users to get stuff done. Things don’t always run smoothly. Our…

<Now Go Bang!> Raster CRT Typography (According to DEC)

masswerk.at/nowgobang/2019/dec-crt-typography

A closer look at the glyphs drawn by the DEC terminals VT100 and VT220.

The Perfect Irony That ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ Film Was Also a Real-Life Scam - MEL Magazine

melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-perfect-irony-that-the-wolf-of-wall-street-was-also-a-real-life-scam

Checklist Design - best UI elements for the best UX practice

checklist.design/

Checklist Design is a collection of best UI and UX you need to provide a complete, honest and rewarding experience for your users.

Common statistical tests are linear models (or: how to teach stats)

lindeloev.github.io/tests-as-linear/

‘So many of our children had a loss to mourn. Isn’t that what poetry’s for?’

theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/31/kate-clanchy-some-kids-i-taught-and-what-they-taught-me

Why You Procrastinate (It Has Nothing to Do With Self-Control) - The New York Times

nytimes.com/2019/03/25/smarter-living/why-you-procrastinate-it-has-nothing-to-do-with-self-control.html

All you need to know about hyphenation in CSS | Clagnut by Richard Rutter

clagnut.com/blog/2395

Automatic hyphenation on the web has been possible since 2011 and is now broadly supported. There is however far more control available to designers than just turning on hyphens.

Human Contact Is Now a Luxury Good - The New York Times

nytimes.com/2019/03/23/sunday-review/human-contact-luxury-screens.html

3D Terrain Maps

shadedrelief.com/3D_Terrain_Maps/index.html

Tom Patterson, US National Park Service

Scientists rise up against statistical significance

nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00857-9

Valentin Amrhein, Sander Greenland, Blake McShane and more than 800 signatories call for an end to hyped claims and the dismissal of possibly crucial effects.

The Chaotic Triumph of Arron Banks, the “Bad Boy of Brexit” | The New Yorker

newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/25/the-chaotic-triumph-of-arron-banks-the-bad-boy-of-brexit

Death of the calorie | 1843

1843magazine.com/features/death-of-the-calorie

For more than a century we’ve counted on calories to tell us what will make us fat. Peter Wilson says it’s time to bury the world’s most misleading measure

UX Myths

uxmyths.com/

LukeW | Designing for Large Screen Smartphones

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LukeW Ideation + Design provides resources for mobile and Web product design and strategy including presentations, workshops, articles, books and more on usability, interaction design and visual design.