Victor Loux — bookmarks tagged “content”

MrBeast Screwed Up Elon's Pyramid Scheme

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Read to the end for a really good cat video

Readability Guidelines

readabilityguidelines.co.uk/

Four-Woman Group That Fought U.K. Algorithms Steps Up for Tech-Worker Rights - WSJ

wsj.com/articles/four-woman-group-that-fought-u-k-algorithms-steps-up-for-tech-worker-rights-11621087200

An advocacy group that successfully challenged the use of algorithms in U.K. immigration and education policy is preparing to take on Facebook and Uber Technologies over tech workers’ rights.

Is content moderation a dead end? — Benedict Evans

ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2021/4/13/is-content-moderation-a-dead-end

Facebook struggles with harmful content just as Microsoft struggled with malware 20 years ago. Content moderation is the new virus scanning. But virus scanning wasn’t the answer - instead we changed the whole model, moving to mobile and the cloud, and leaving Microsoft behind. So do we change the social model as well, or is this Gin Lane?

If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault

anildash.com/2011/07/20/if_your_websites_full_of_assholes_its_your_fault-2/

Carbon Design System

carbondesignsystem.com/

Carbon is the design system for IBM web and product. It is a series of individual styles, components, and guidelines used for creating unified UI.

Why Gen Z Loves Closed Captioning – The Upgrade – Medium

medium.com/s/the-upgrade/why-gen-z-loves-closed-captioning-ec4e44b8d02f

These were the words from my college-aged daughter when I caught her lounging on our couch, streaming Friends with 24-point closed captioning on. She has no hearing impairment, and I wanted to know…

Reader Mode: The Button to Beat | CSS-Tricks

css-tricks.com/reader-mode-the-button-to-beat/

As a young nerd, I loved to immerse myself in digital worlds, learning the ins and outs of the rules someone else had created for me (intentionally or

7 guidelines for writing accessible microcopy – Prototypr

blog.prototypr.io/7-guidelines-for-writing-accessible-microcopy-8d52575f5d8e

See Accessible360's lead auditor and co-founder, Aaron Cannon, use a screen reader to browse a web page.

UX Writing: How to do it like Google with this powerful checklist

uxplanet.org/ux-writing-how-to-do-it-like-google-with-this-powerful-checklist-e263cc37f5f1

These are my notes from a Google I/O 2017 talk by three UX Writers. It’s a great resource to start creating a UX Writing process within your organisation. Useful for anyone involved in putting words…

spatie/laravel-medialibrary: Associate files with Eloquent models

github.com/spatie/laravel-medialibrary

Medialibrary is a Laravel (5.4 and up) package that can associate all sorts of files with Eloquent models. It provides a simple, fluent API to work with.

mailchimp/content-style-guide

github.com/mailchimp/content-style-guide

Lists.design

lists.design/

A gallery of real data ready to be placed in your design. Kind of like an App Store for fake content. Want to design with real data ? There's a list for that.

7 Tips for Presenting Bulleted Lists in Digital Content

nngroup.com/articles/presenting-bulleted-lists/

Wikipedia redesign

jgthms.com/wikipedia-redesign.html

But you’re missing the point of designing websites. And if you provide a Wikipedia redesign only to dismiss everything that made its success, and insert your own version of Dribbble’s latest trends, then you’re probably not worth hiring because you’re incapable of analyzing the core purpose of a project and tackling real-world problems.