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Marketing features
HEY, Controversy
Habits of High-Functioning Teams
Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems
Notion: A small company with a big audience
The Need for Speed, 23 Years Later
My 2020 Setup in Notion
How to Combat Zoom Fatigue
Treat It Like Trash — Let’s Learn Design Systems
Designers: the only certainty is change
Don’t be afraid to ask a question that may sound stupid
The USER
Regarding Zoom
Get static
Stuck at home
What Great Managers Do
From Error to Understanding: The Importance of Brand Voice When Things Go Wrong
Wireframes are too concrete
The Sliding Scale of Giving a Fuck
Hard startups
Wasting it
Engagement is an antimetric
Investing in things that don’t go out of style
How Slack ruined work
What We Want Doesn’t Always Make Us Happy
Basecamp is releasing a new product, Hey
A newsletter is a relationship
Debbie Millman - Time Well Spent
The last tracker was just removed from Basecamp.com
Fathom Analytics
Accessibility drives aesthetics
How putting a price on speed helped one retailer increase mobile revenue in just 2 months
Smart people use simple words to make others feel smart.
The great paradox of our time: everything is both better and worse than ever before
The Enemy
Will millions in funding ruin 1Password?
How to Have a Successful UX Career at Google (Or Anywhere Else)
Tool tips: How our design team switched to Figma
Interview with Cap Watkins
The Hot Potato Process
Leave the Phone at Home
Apple VP Nick Law: creative agencies must learn new capabilities or they’re f*cked
Ad Age 2019 A-List no. 6: Work & CO
How we work with microcopy
Mobile E-Commerce UX: Deemphasize ‘Install App’ Ads or Avoid Them Entirely
Analytics are reshaping fashion’s old-school instincts
People Are Starting to Realize How Voice Assistants Actually Work
Fast Software, the Best Software
“I Just Knew I Was Going to Surpass These Guys I Was Working For”
A Mindful Approach to Technology
Stay in your lane and outlast your competition
What to Do When You Feel Uninspired at Work
Data-Driven Design Is Killing Our Instincts
Freelance and Business And Stuff
Why Consultants Quit Their Jobs to Go Independent
Superhuman and email privacy
Your inbox is spying on you
On Modus: It’s Time for a Code of Ethics for Designers
Frank Chimero on causing ’good trouble’ and re-imagining the status quo to combat achievement culture
Citrix improves UX and cuts costs by 65%
Delight Comes Last
Tim Cook’s Stanford Commencement Address
The Cost of Lies
You care more about your privacy than you think
Big Mood Machine
Hiring a Management Consultancy for Digital Is a Mistake
Simplicity is a war
Dos and dont’s on designing for accessibility
Just write: why Product Designers should write, and how to get started
How Notion Is Going After Atlassian and Why It Just Might Win
Good reads this week
Simple is expensive
The next iPhone
What “intuitive” really means
Hey Google, stop trying to redefine privacy
There’s no crazy like soccer crazy
Scapegoating User Experience Design
Clip sharing with Overcast
Why don’t we just use Material Design?
Accenture sued $32m+ over website redesign for Hertz
Venture capital money kills more businesses than it helps
The elegance of nothing
Amazon Workers Are Listening to What You Tell Alexa
Gumroadday: Get my books at -17% discount
Meet Q: The First Genderless Voice
It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work
How Notion pulled itself back from the brink of failure
Wireframes are becoming less relevant — and that’s a good thing
Neurodiversity and the Digital Divide: how our neurological differences shape the way we experience the web
Accessibility, a powerful design tool
Leadership or management
Top 10 Application-Design Mistakes
Everyone should own a dog
Silence is gold
Cameras that understand
Humans, not users
Keeping AI Honest
Imagine a world without ads targeted by personal information
Right to privacy
Why we need to slow time and scale down
If you like what we build, pay us. Otherwise, do not.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Design Ethics
The State of UX in 2019
We need the right kind of growth
Why scrap scrappy?
The Most Important Survival Skill for the Next 50 Years Isn’t What You Think
Why do we feel so busy? It’s all our hidden ‘shadow work’
Smartphones are our ever-present computers
Time travel through words with Merriam-Webster
Morgan Knutson on Working as a Designer on Google+
Organized for browsing
Tim Cook talks to VICE News Tonight about privacy
Tesla, software and disruption
Forget the new iPhones - Apple’s best product is now privacy
The iPhone Franchise
The Long Goodbye (To Facebook)
Automation, Unemployment, and Universal Income
Yuval Noah Harari on what the year 2050 has in store for humankind
Living among baby robots
How I kicked my email compulsion
Facebook's struggle to moderate itself
The Secret to Ant Efficiency Is Idleness
Google Employees Are Organizing To Protest the Company’s Secret Search Engine
Why Small Teams Win
The Bullshit Web
Nikhil Sonnad on the banal evil of Facebook
Just keep at it
High Fives, AI, and Connecting the Dots: MailChimp’s VP of Design on What Business can Learn from Design
Yes, Alan, There Is An ROI For UX Design
Rands Information Practises
The Race to a Trillion
Cheap Shower Curtains
What Elon Musk Should Learn From the Thailand Cave Rescue
Rise of the machines: has technology evolved beyond our control?
Good product writing is conversational
Retail is Not Dying, But it Has to Evolve
The Netflix Binge Factory
We are all trapped in the “Feed”
From the Drawing Board to the Board Room
Turn off your push notifications. All of them.
Stop “feeding” your users
Think inclusively at every step
No classes, no professors: the alternative to business school
Conversion optimization with A/B tests
Netlify now shows your deploy status on its favicon
Let them eat cake
Netflix Culture
Skype
The New Google Assistant
Who would you trust more with your data, Apple or the government?
What Happened to Apple’s Whimsy?
Unfoundered
Microcontent: A Few Small Words Have a Mega Impact on Business
GDPR is ruining my life
What’s in a pattern name
Requests for Personal Data From Apple, Google, and Facebook Compared
Twitter logged all user’s passwords in plain text
Apple Should Make an Instagram Clone
A Modest Guide to Productivity
Google Debuts a Standalone To-Do App, Google Tasks
Tech is not Neutral
Facebook to exclude North American users from some privacy enhancements
Sen. Blumenthal: “Your business model is to maximize profit over privacy.”
Netflix has to "produce great content, market it well, serve it up beautifully."
My #1 Piece of Advice to Freelancers: Lean Into The Moment
Productivity
Tim Cook - We care about the user experience
Europe’s tough new data-protection law
The Real Technology Problem
Whose risk?
Why Small Teams Win
Phone Bored
Karim Rashid
Creative Class is open
Being cash-free puts us at risk of attack: Swedes turn against cashlessness
Dieter Rams
Bleeding Out
Fake News is spam
Don't use the F word (freelancer)
Conversational Design
Dropbox
How Tech Giants Design For Transgender Users–Or Don’t
Everyone Is Going Through Something
It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work
Flight Crews Don’t Decide Where To Fly
Bye bye Facebook
Cuba
Why Can Everyone Spot Fake News But YouTube, Facebook And Google?
The seat at the table
Why I hate your fake redesign
Your competitors don’t matter
Diversity in the design industry
Givenchy
Apple’s "Sound on the Go" Strategy
The Most Important Design Skill For An AI-Dominated World
Love letters to trees
Amazon has a fix for Alexa’s creepy laughs
You have to make sure that you’re focused on the thing that matters.
Pricing Philisophy
Specialize
AMP for email is a terrible idea
Is this Finnish school the perfect design?
The #1 reason Facebook won’t ever change
A Year of Learning and Leading UX at Google
C.A.R.E - A simple framework for user onboarding
Inside Facebook´s Hellish Two Years
Everything Easy is Hard Again
Personas
The iPhone X is Apple’s underrated masterpiece
Make me think
No Cutting Corners on the iPhone X
Hawaii Missile Alert
Has Apple lost its design mojo?
Why Design Systems fail
What You Build
Cindy Gallop - The Most Provocative Woman in the World
Checkout for Winners
Living a Testing Culture
Creative Class
Tobias Ahlin: Where´d all the feelings go?
How To Predict Your Future
Github
Medium
What Would Augment Reality?
Being Freelance Podcast: Episode 100
Design quotes
Enough
Why?
Groundwork for Creating Great User Experiences
4 Reasons Why Your Body Text Should be Bigger
No Share Buttons on Mobile Sites
ARKit
The Why before the Why
10 Reasons Why All Designers Should Start Writing More
Vox Media Accessibility Guidelines
Writing for UX: some practical tips
How to attract top recruiting talent
You are the Alfred to Batman
How better onboarding cut our drop-off rate dramatically
New isn’t always better, but it makes the old feel worse
Designing for Mobile
Atomic Design: where science and design collide
Product or Sales? Chicken or Egg?
Failure, Reflect, Renew
User Experiences that Matter 2:nd Edition
What is a Great User Experience?
Coming soon: User Experiences that Matter e-book
Increase conversions by removing social sharing buttons
Time vs. Attention: Which is More Valuable?
MVP: Is Your Product Really Minimum AND Viable?
How designers can earn a seat at the table
The days are long but the decades are short
Growth
The path of a successful app
Working with me
Planners and UX-Designers
Kudos: Social Media framework
Look and Feel and Feel
Great user experience
Naming your icons
Golden Krishna on Our Job as Designers
Conversations
Cost, pricing and perceived value

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