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Web Field Manual | Design

webfieldmanual.com/design.html

Meritocracy doesn't exist, and believing it does is bad for you

fastcompany.com/40510522/meritocracy-doesnt-exist-and-believing-it-does-is-bad-for-you

Crossfont - Easy-to-use font editor for Mac

pixelegg.me/crossfont

Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed To Make Money

ianbicking.org/blog/2019/03/open-source-doesnt-make-money-by-design.html

Jeremy Mikkola - Rules for Autocomplete

jeremymikkola.com/posts/2019_03_19_rules_for_autocomplete.html

Humane by Design

humanebydesign.com/
Humane by Design is a resource that provides guidance for designing ethically humane digital products through patterns focused on user well-being.

Computer printers have been quietly embedding tracking codes in documents for decades — Quartz

qz.com/1002927/computer-printers-have-been-quietly-embedding-tracking-codes-in-documents-for-decades/

Ramsey Orta filmed the killing of Eric Garner, so the police punished him - The Verge

theverge.com/2019/3/13/18253848/eric-garner-footage-ramsey-orta-police-brutality-killing-safety
He filmed the killing of Eric Garner. The video traveled far, but it wouldn’t get justice for his dead friend. Instead, the NYPD would exact their revenge through targeted harassment and eventually imprisonment—Orta’s punishment for daring to show the world police brutality.

You’ve got to be kind

austinkleon.com/2019/03/09/how-to-be-kind/

The Teens Who Listen to ‘Mallwave’ Are Nostalgic for an Experience They’ve Never Had - MEL Magazine

melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-teens-who-listen-to-mallwave-are-nostalgic-for-an-experience-theyve-never-had

User interfaces: hiding stuff should be a last resort by Adam Silver, designer based in London, UK.

adamsilver.io/articles/user-interfaces-hiding-stuff-should-be-a-last-resort/
Knowing how to present optional form fields is more tricky than it first seems. Let's discuss why that is and ways we can handle it to improve the user experience.

Ethics for Design

ethicsfordesign.com/
What is the role of a designer?

LOW←TECH MAGAZINE

solar.lowtechmagazine.com/

Gauthier Roussilhe | Digital guide to low tech

gauthierroussilhe.com/en/posts/convert-low-tech

How Inuit Parents Raise Kids Without Yelling — And Teach Them To Control Anger : Goats and Soda : NPR

npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/03/13/685533353/a-playful-way-to-teach-kids-to-control-their-anger

Abstraction, intuition, and the “monad tutorial fallacy” | blog :: Brent -> [String]

byorgey.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/abstraction-intuition-and-the-monad-tutorial-fallacy/
While working on an article for the Monad.Reader, I've had the opportunity to think about how people learn and gain intuition for abstraction, and the implications for pedagogy. The heart of the matter is that people begin with the concrete, and move to the abstract. Humans are very good at pattern recognition, so this is…

F's and V's Might Have Appeared After Agriculture - The Atlantic

theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/03/farming-hunter-gatherers-labiodentals-linguistics/584950/
If farming helped introduce f’s and v’s 12,000 years ago, it would challenge the principle that humans’ language abilities haven’t significantly changed since we first learned to speak.

The Hottest Chat App for Teens Is Google Docs - The Atlantic

theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/hottest-chat-app-teens-google-docs/584857/
How a writing tool became the new default way to pass notes in class

Facial recognition's 'dirty little secret': Millions of online photos scraped without consent

nbcnews.com/tech/internet/facial-recognition-s-dirty-little-secret-millions-online-photos-scraped-n981921

Cars are killing us. Within 10 years, we must phase them out | George Monbiot | Opinion | The Guardian

theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/07/cars-killing-us-driving-environment-phase-out