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Untitled (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V0lXIK9DZQ&feature=youtu.be)

How Tech Companies Manipulate the Media @Mrwhosetheboss ft @MKBHD // This is an _excellent_ video on how reviews work. Correction, how reviews have *always* worked, everywhere. It just isn’t a video about how companies “manipulate” reviews.

10 Usability Heuristics Applied to Complex Applications

Healthcare Content Marketing & Copywriting | Aha Media Group

Untitled (https://subconscious.substack.com/p/notes-are-conversations-across-time)

Notes are conversations across time. Seeing tools for thought through the cybernetic lens of Pask’s Conversation Theory. Featuring provocations from @startuployalist, @tobyshorin, and @wolkenmachine.

A/A Testing: How I increased conversions 300% by doing absolutely nothing

Ratio Eight Thermal Set

Open Rates + Deliverability | Dave Smyth

Thoughts collated here: In short: relying on open rates to assess how engaged mailing list recipients are might be a risky strategy.

What We Look for in Content Design Portfolios and Work Samples

Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/06/business/media/burn-out-companies-pandemic.html)

“People keep framing burnout as an individual problem. If you’re really going to try and make a dent in the problem and get to a better place, you’re going to have to not just focus on the people and fix them, you have to focus on the job conditions.”

Neon Coral | Hands-Free Leash – Zee.Dog

BS 8878 - Wikipedia

What are Data Types and Why are They Important?

working on lessons for a workshop on content design and structured content specifications for a CMS. Came across this excellent guide to data types. Essential to a successful CMS implementation.

Fair Trials calls for ban on the use of AI to ‘predict’ criminal behaviour | Fair Trials

NEW REPORT: We are calling for an outright ban on the use of AI & automated systems in criminal justice to ‘predict’ criminal behaviour & profile people. Our report demonstrates why, detailing the damaging impact of these systems on people across Europe➡️

Trademark Screening 101: How we get it done at A Hundred Monkeys - A Hundred Monkeys

Untitled (https://www.getstark.co/library/collections/making-accessible-color-combos/)

Dive into our latest collection to understand how to create accessible colors and seamlessly integrate them with your design system 👇

Designing Beautiful Shadows in CSS

The Contrast Triangle

On Link Underlines | Adrian Roselli

Untitled (https://www.behance.net/gallery/66412409/HANNOVER-MESSE)

Hannover Messe Graphic System Cool color patterns for the branding of the biggest industrial fair in the world! Perfect execution of the abstract shapes and patterns. Have a look, but also read so you don't miss info about the whole concept.

Untitled (https://cwodtke.medium.com/cascading-okrs-at-scale-5b1335812a32)

“OKRs ONLY work for empowered teams, otherwise they are a travesty” as ever, wise words from @cwodtke

#UserWay Will Get You Sued | Adrian Roselli

I am happy to let overlay vendors spend money eating each other, but I am not happy when they use my name or my work to do so. Last week I found #UserWay did just that, so I wrote a grumpy: #UserWay just removed the page. I leave you to speculate why.

Geranium - Copenhagen - Restaurant - 50Best Discovery

@dburka @indexaward Geranium is outstanding.

Untitled (https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalorg/issues/3236692)

Raised an issue to look at how we could make @Drupal issues less “in your face” about code until that’s what the issue is actually about:

On Link Underlines | Adrian Roselli

Psst. Underline your links in body content. After all, underlines are beautiful. Because form ever follows function. It is weird to see people fight this so fervently.

An update on the accessibility of conditionally revealed questions - Accessibility in government

The UK Gov accessibility team got a sense that revealing fields inline on forms based on user selections was causing some issues. So they tested it. And yup. Slides: Partly due to code, partly user expectations.

Accessiblity research round 3 2020 - Google Slides

Untitled (https://globe.gl/example/submarine-cables/)

the miracle of cables

Untitled (https://subconscious.substack.com/p/web3)

Thinking about weird web3 energy. Digital feudalism, NFTs, Carlota Perez, and eldritch emergence.

8.5x11_BetterConversationsGuide_July2020_FINAL.pdf

Nemawashi - Wikipedia

GitLab Component Library – Figma

Audience-Based Navigation: 5 Reasons to Avoid It

Web users are task oriented; they aren’t thinking about who they are. In audience-based navigation, people must ask themselves who the site thinks they are and what type of content that type of person wants. All these questions increase users’ cognitive effort, and people haven’t even made it past the navigation yet. Users feel anxious that the information they see might be incomplete or incorrect. When users feel

Open Positions

It’s always nice to see when a company understands what employees want for benefits 👏 @PolarSignalsIO

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

"A new study adds up the external costs that ride-hailing trips generate and finds them to be higher than those taken in a private vehicle" (Remember how these services were initially 'sold'? Car-based solutions are no answer to problem of cars.)

Ollin Laptop and Tablet Mount | Colebrook Bosson Saunders

山と道 U.L. HIKE & BACKPACKING

Merino Cap | 山と道 U.L. HIKE & BACKPACKING

100% Merino Zip Hoody | 山と道 U.L. HIKE & BACKPACKING

This website has the best content design and marketing copy writing I have ever seen in so many ways.

Tableware Set Family | Dishes | Snow Peak – Snow Peak

Intro to Cryptocurrency

@somefinetweets Fav resource so far is Preethi Kasireddy’s free email course: It starts with a foundational intro to the history of money and builds from there. No sensationalism, just good insights

LALAL.AI: 100% AI-Powered Vocal and Instrumental Tracks Removal

Stripe Atlas: Writing copy for landing pages

Alpha Anorak | 山と道 U.L. HIKE & BACKPACKING

What to Make of Acquia Buying DAM Vendor Widen | Real Story Group

Good piece by @TonyByrne at the @realstorygroup on the challenges Acquia faces turning a suite of acquired products into a coherent platform. It's a problem many vendors have, but it's relevant RE their @Widen acquisition.

Brass Plug-in Pendant | Goodee

Camping Recipes by Fresh Off the Grid

Tips for Getting Started | Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) | W3C

Third Wave Water – Onyx Coffee Lab

Toad&Co | Sustainable, Organic & Eco Friendly Clothing

Untitled (https://www.figma.com/community/widget/1030161589655245054)

Introducing Accessibility Whiteboarding with Stark for FigJam! ✏️ 🗒️ 💜 Check accessibility tasks off your lists to track cross-discipline progress, leave sticky notes to discuss action items, expand your knowledge on specific a11y topics & more.

Shapes of UX designer. Over the past 12 years I have obsessed… | by Jason Mesut | Amplify Design | Medium

Blame Consumers for America's 'Everything Shortage'

This is a better image that all of those news stories that show empty shelves and just inspire more hoarding.

Untitled (https://github.com/xdesro/html-compendium)

I started my own version of something like this. Pretty ruff for now but I have such grand ideas for this puppy.

A Content Model Is Not a Design System – A List Apart

I haven't even read this yet but I already started cheering at the title

TRUSCO - Japan Agri Trading

Facebook plans to change company name to focus on the metaverse - The Verge

Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name: My money is on 'Meta' and .

(500) https://meta.com/

Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name: My money is on 'Meta' and .

Untitled (https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-10-21/california-tried-to-save-the-nation-from-the-misery-of-tax-filing-then-intuit-stepped-in)

If we're talking "human-centered design", the ROI of design only works if business interests and user interests are *already* aligned. How to align business success with ethical action is the conversation to have. (It often requires regulation.)

Management Is (Still) Not Leadership

A reminder that management is not leadership. Tips for better IC relations: 1) Keep manager's meetings to manager's topics: operations, staffing, logistics, etc. 2) Create spaces for leadership conversations (i.e. vision) and invite relevant senior IC's.

Yamazaki Home – Official Site – Yamazaki Home

Yamazaki Home – Official Site – Rolling Storage Cart - Steel - Yamazaki Home

Yamazaki Home – Official Site – Desk + Tabletop

HmntyCntrd | Critical UX Event

You should sign up for Critical UX: My generation was taught that a career in UX would change the world for the better. It’s as if talking about users gives you some sort of ethical auto pilot. It’s a harmful lie that I repeated, and I’m sorry.

Merino Wool Dresses - wool&

Men's All – NAADAM

KINTO USA: Official site of Japanese tableware & lifestyle brand KINTO – KINTO USA, Inc

TRAVEL TUMBLER – KINTO USA, Inc

The Ultimate French Press Technique - YouTube

1615 Air Case | Pelican Official Store

1626AirDS Padded Divider Set | Pelican Official Store

It’s just words on websites - kubie.co

Unless you are working on content that is getting carved into a monument or put on a plaque being sent into space for future civilizations to find, you have my permission to relax.

Facebook’s new name is Meta - The Verge

Are we really going to have to say MAANG

Don’t Let Metrics Undermine Your Business

Designers should be reading HBR. They've been doing a lot of useful stuff lately, and it's pretty well designed.

Harukaze AS Gyuto 210mm

King Combo Stone 800/6000

Untitled (https://www.adweek.com/programmatic/ad-tech-watchdogs-form-nonprofit-with-plans-to-uproot-the-disinformation-economy/)

Not a single adtech executive has reached out to congratulate us on our new venture, and that should tell you everything you need to know.

Hire Product People Who Already Understand Content - kubie.co

Who will build the world your customer journeys take place in? Who is intentionally concerned with the design and stewardship of that world? That work, to me, is content work.

Once in a while... | rachel_norfolk

Once in a while, an opportunity comes along that is so interesting I simply cannot say no…

The State Of The Web

I published the transcript of my talk, The State Of The Web: Here’s the video: And here are the slides:

Untitled (https://vimeo.com/641568337)

I published the transcript of my talk, The State Of The Web: Here’s the video: And here are the slides:

Adactio: Notes—November 4th, 2021, 11:48am

I published the transcript of my talk, The State Of The Web: Here’s the video: And here are the slides:

Adactio: Articles—The State Of The Web

I published the transcript of my talk, The State Of The Web: Here’s the video: And here are the slides:

Learn Responsive Design

If you’re looking for a *very* good primer on contemporary @RWD techniques, that @adactio wrote a downright EXCELLENT one. Strongly recommended:

(500) https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/the-cio-agenda-for-the-next-12-months-six-make-or-break-priorities

Hats off to McKinsey. It's one of the most insightful posts of 2011 predicting future trends in that year -

Mapbox GL JS v2.6

Please give this a try, and share your new cool non-Mercator maps with us! It's an initial release which may have a few rough edges, so don't hesitate to report issues. Hopefully non-Mercator maps will get more popular on the Web now. 😊 More about v2.6: