It’s easy to prototype and so everyone is prototyping, without really knowing why they are doing it.

Note to self: if my language has shell programming, there’s no reason you shouldn’t do it the way Julia does.

via: https://julialang.org/blog/2012/03/shelling-out-sucks/

alternative interfaces for creating and editing images and text

A rather unusual (and beautiful) color palette editor/selector.

A rather unusual (and beautiful) color palette editor/selector.

Dark sky was a great example of embedded dataviz in an everyday app. I really liked how the article presents use cases and links them to information to present, a good reference to help junior UX and other team members understand UI/UX use case articulation.

A rather unusual (and beautiful) color palette editor/selector.

Dark sky was a great example of embedded dataviz in an everyday app. I really liked how the article presents use cases and links them to information to present, a good reference to help junior UX and other team members understand UI/UX use case articulation.

Always trying to marry the artistic with the useful.

A bundle of guidelines, tools, and resources to help designers and developers co-create superior banking experiences.

Part 2 of The Interfaces With Which We Think

Programs that have their own agenda and that are trying to make it yours, too. Programs that want you to think about them. Programs that think they are entitled to a part of your attention. “Pick me” programs. And you know what? Fuck these programs. Give me back my computer.

Pattern library of AIUX patterns exploring best practices for designing AI Products.

In project Beckett, we are building a version control system for scene files in the Godot game engine that preserves these meaningful spatial and structural relationships.

Yup. Three months without search engines. It was… not without issues.

Spreadsheets are particularly useful for thinking through financial models, budgets, or any situation that involves considering lots of possible scenarios. Instead of laboriously redoing a bunch of math, you can quickly ask “what if?” questions and see the effects.

Very nice work by Litt and the Ink and Switch crew. Wondering if there’s a way to combine Ambsheets v1 and v2 to have both a nice interactive grid and clear formulas when you need them.

80% of the people only need 20% of the features.

This website uses a metaphorical and interactive presentation to critically illustrate the modern web user experience, emphasizing the frustrations of constant interruptions, unnecessary animations, and intrusive elements common on contemporary websites.