Notes & Links
November 23, 2020Weekly notes Nov 16 - 22
November 16, 2020Weekly notes Nov 9 - 15
November 09, 2020Weekly notes Nov 2 - 8
October 30, 2020Make it fun: chaos in Product Design
October 29, 2020China plans to focus on quality over speed
October 19, 2020Weekly notes Oct 12 - 18
October 12, 2020Manager of one
October 12, 2020Weekly notes Oct 5 - 11
October 08, 2020Function + Feeling - Haraldur Thorleifsson, Ueno (Config Europe)
October 05, 2020Weekly notes Sept 28 - Oct 4
October 01, 2020Good design
September 28, 2020Weekly notes Sept 21 - 27
September 21, 2020Do not tolerate brilliant jerks.
September 21, 2020Weekly notes Sept 14 - 20
September 14, 2020Weekly notes Sept 7 - 13
September 07, 2020Don’t draw the UI, draw the priority
September 07, 2020Weekly notes Aug 31 - Sept 6
September 03, 2020Successful Product Design
August 31, 2020Weekly notes Aug 24-30
August 25, 2020User Experience is a Spectrum
August 24, 2020Weekly notes Aug 17-23
August 19, 2020A good design review
August 17, 2020Weekly notes Aug 10-16
August 10, 2020Weekly notes Aug 3-9
August 03, 2020Freelancer vs Consultant
August 03, 2020Weekly notes July 27 - Aug 2
July 27, 2020Weekly notes July 20 - 26
July 20, 2020Weekly notes July 13 - 19
July 13, 2020Weekly notes July 6 - 12
July 06, 2020Weekly notes June 29 - July 5
June 28, 2020Weekly notes June 22 - 28
June 23, 2020Marketing features
June 22, 2020HEY, Controversy
June 04, 2020Habits of High-Functioning Teams
June 04, 2020Notion: A small company with a big audience
June 01, 2020The Need for Speed, 23 Years Later
May 15, 2020How to Combat Zoom Fatigue
May 15, 2020My 2020 Setup in Notion
May 15, 2020Treat It Like Trash — Let’s Learn Design Systems
April 16, 2020Designers: the only certainty is change
April 16, 2020Don’t be afraid to ask a question that may sound stupid
April 08, 2020The USER
March 31, 2020Regarding Zoom
March 29, 2020Get static
March 11, 2020Stuck at home
March 11, 2020What Great Managers Do
March 11, 2020Wireframes are too concrete
March 01, 2020The Sliding Scale of Giving a Fuck
March 01, 2020Hard startups
February 24, 2020Wasting it
February 14, 2020Engagement is an antimetric
February 12, 2020Investing in things that don’t go out of style
February 10, 2020How Slack ruined work
February 10, 2020What We Want Doesn’t Always Make Us Happy
February 07, 2020Basecamp is releasing a new product, Hey
February 05, 2020A newsletter is a relationship
January 30, 2020Debbie Millman - Time Well Spent
January 28, 2020The last tracker was just removed from Basecamp.com
January 22, 2020Fathom Analytics
January 15, 2020Accessibility drives aesthetics
January 15, 2020How putting a price on speed helped one retailer increase mobile revenue in just 2 months
January 14, 2020Smart people use simple words to make others feel smart.
November 18, 2019The Enemy
November 18, 2019Will millions in funding ruin 1Password?
November 14, 2019Tool tips: How our design team switched to Figma
November 14, 2019How to Have a Successful UX Career at Google (Or Anywhere Else)
October 24, 2019Interview with Cap Watkins
October 16, 2019The Hot Potato Process
September 25, 2019Leave the Phone at Home
September 10, 2019Apple VP Nick Law: creative agencies must learn new capabilities or they’re f*cked
September 10, 2019Ad Age 2019 A-List no. 6: Work & CO
August 29, 2019How we work with microcopy
August 23, 2019Analytics are reshaping fashion’s old-school instincts
August 20, 2019Fast Software, the Best Software
August 20, 2019A Mindful Approach to Technology
August 20, 2019Stay in your lane and outlast your competition
August 20, 2019What to Do When You Feel Uninspired at Work
August 19, 2019Data-Driven Design Is Killing Our Instincts
August 16, 2019Freelance and Business And Stuff
July 24, 2019Why Consultants Quit Their Jobs to Go Independent
July 24, 2019Superhuman and email privacy
July 10, 2019Your inbox is spying on you
July 05, 2019Frank Chimero on causing ’good trouble’ and re-imagining the status quo to combat achievement culture
June 28, 2019Citrix improves UX and cuts costs by 65%
June 27, 2019Delight Comes Last
June 19, 2019Tim Cook’s Stanford Commencement Address
June 18, 2019The Cost of Lies
June 18, 2019You care more about your privacy than you think
June 13, 2019Big Mood Machine
June 07, 2019Simplicity is a war
June 07, 2019Dos and dont’s on designing for accessibility
May 24, 2019Good reads this week
May 23, 2019Simple is expensive
May 20, 2019The next iPhone
May 13, 2019What “intuitive” really means
May 11, 2019Hey Google, stop trying to redefine privacy
May 10, 2019There’s no crazy like soccer crazy
April 29, 2019Scapegoating User Experience Design
April 29, 2019Clip sharing with Overcast
April 24, 2019Why don’t we just use Material Design?
April 24, 2019Accenture sued $32m+ over website redesign for Hertz
April 16, 2019The elegance of nothing
April 11, 2019Amazon Workers Are Listening to What You Tell Alexa
April 03, 2019Gumroadday: Get my books at -17% discount
March 20, 2019Meet Q: The First Genderless Voice
March 20, 2019It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work
March 11, 2019How Notion pulled itself back from the brink of failure
March 06, 2019Neurodiversity and the Digital Divide: how our neurological differences shape the way we experience the web
March 06, 2019Accessibility, a powerful design tool
February 22, 2019Leadership or management
February 22, 2019Top 10 Application-Design Mistakes
February 18, 2019Everyone should own a dog
February 15, 2019Silence is gold
February 07, 2019Cameras that understand
January 29, 2019Humans, not users
January 23, 2019Keeping AI Honest
January 22, 2019Imagine a world without ads targeted by personal information
January 18, 2019Right to privacy
January 03, 2019Why we need to slow time and scale down
December 20, 2018If you like what we build, pay us. Otherwise, do not.
December 20, 2018What We Talk About When We Talk About Design Ethics
December 13, 2018The State of UX in 2019
December 11, 2018We need the right kind of growth
November 29, 2018Why scrap scrappy?
November 22, 2018Why do we feel so busy? It’s all our hidden ‘shadow work’
October 29, 2018Smartphones are our ever-present computers
October 29, 2018Time travel through words with Merriam-Webster
October 16, 2018Morgan Knutson on Working as a Designer on Google+
October 12, 2018Organized for browsing
October 08, 2018Tim Cook talks to VICE News Tonight about privacy
September 18, 2018Tesla, software and disruption
September 16, 2018Forget the new iPhones - Apple’s best product is now privacy
September 13, 2018The iPhone Franchise
September 12, 2018The Long Goodbye (To Facebook)
September 12, 2018Automation, Unemployment, and Universal Income
August 30, 2018Living among baby robots
August 28, 2018How I kicked my email compulsion
August 24, 2018Facebook's struggle to moderate itself
August 21, 2018The Secret to Ant Efficiency Is Idleness
August 17, 2018Why Small Teams Win
August 12, 2018The Bullshit Web
August 01, 2018Nikhil Sonnad on the banal evil of Facebook
July 20, 2018Just keep at it
July 18, 2018High Fives, AI, and Connecting the Dots: MailChimp’s VP of Design on What Business can Learn from Design
July 18, 2018Yes, Alan, There Is An ROI For UX Design
July 16, 2018Rands Information Practises
July 16, 2018The Race to a Trillion
July 16, 2018Cheap Shower Curtains
June 21, 2018Good product writing is conversational
June 21, 2018Retail is Not Dying, But it Has to Evolve
June 15, 2018The Netflix Binge Factory
June 14, 2018We are all trapped in the “Feed”
June 13, 2018From the Drawing Board to the Board Room
June 13, 2018Turn off your push notifications. All of them.
June 13, 2018Stop “feeding” your users
June 12, 2018Think inclusively at every step
June 04, 2018Conversion optimization with A/B tests
May 24, 2018Let them eat cake
May 21, 2018Netflix Culture
May 16, 2018Skype
May 09, 2018The New Google Assistant
May 08, 2018What Happened to Apple’s Whimsy?
May 07, 2018Unfoundered
May 05, 2018GDPR is ruining my life
May 05, 2018What’s in a pattern name
April 27, 2018Apple Should Make an Instagram Clone
April 27, 2018A Modest Guide to Productivity
April 27, 2018Google Debuts a Standalone To-Do App, Google Tasks
April 24, 2018Tech is not Neutral
April 16, 2018Productivity
April 12, 2018Tim Cook - We care about the user experience
April 12, 2018Europe’s tough new data-protection law
April 11, 2018The Real Technology Problem
April 09, 2018Whose risk?
April 09, 2018Why Small Teams Win
April 09, 2018Phone Bored
April 09, 2018Karim Rashid
April 09, 2018Creative Class is open
April 03, 2018Dieter Rams
March 29, 2018Bleeding Out
March 29, 2018Fake News is spam
March 27, 2018Don't use the F word (freelancer)
March 27, 2018Conversational Design
March 27, 2018Dropbox
March 27, 2018How Tech Giants Design For Transgender Users–Or Don’t
March 23, 2018Everyone Is Going Through Something
March 23, 2018It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work
March 21, 2018Flight Crews Don’t Decide Where To Fly
March 19, 2018Bye bye Facebook
March 19, 2018Cuba
March 19, 2018The seat at the table
March 16, 2018Why I hate your fake redesign
March 15, 2018Your competitors don’t matter
March 15, 2018Diversity in the design industry
March 15, 2018Givenchy
March 13, 2018Apple’s "Sound on the Go" Strategy
March 11, 2018Love letters to trees
March 09, 2018Amazon has a fix for Alexa’s creepy laughs
February 28, 2018Pricing Philisophy
February 28, 2018Specialize
February 27, 2018AMP for email is a terrible idea
February 26, 2018Is this Finnish school the perfect design?
February 25, 2018The #1 reason Facebook won’t ever change
February 22, 2018A Year of Learning and Leading UX at Google
February 22, 2018C.A.R.E - A simple framework for user onboarding
February 19, 2018Inside Facebook´s Hellish Two Years
February 11, 2018Everything Easy is Hard Again
February 11, 2018Personas
February 02, 2018The iPhone X is Apple’s underrated masterpiece
February 01, 2018Make me think
January 22, 2018No Cutting Corners on the iPhone X
January 15, 2018Hawaii Missile Alert
January 05, 2018Has Apple lost its design mojo?
January 05, 2018Why Design Systems fail
January 05, 2018What You Build
January 05, 2018Cindy Gallop - The Most Provocative Woman in the World
November 10, 2017Checkout for Winners
November 10, 2017Living a Testing Culture
October 07, 2017Creative Class
October 03, 2017Tobias Ahlin: Where´d all the feelings go?
September 25, 2017How To Predict Your Future
August 28, 2017Github
August 25, 2017Medium
August 16, 2017What Would Augment Reality?
July 14, 2017Being Freelance Podcast: Episode 100
July 10, 2017Design quotes
July 07, 2017Enough
July 04, 2017Why?
June 30, 2017Groundwork for Creating Great User Experiences
June 30, 20174 Reasons Why Your Body Text Should be Bigger
June 30, 2017No Share Buttons on Mobile Sites
June 30, 2017ARKit
June 30, 2017The Why before the Why
June 06, 2017Vox Media Accessibility Guidelines
June 05, 2017Writing for UX: some practical tips
May 28, 2017How to attract top recruiting talent
May 22, 2017You are the Alfred to Batman
April 05, 2017New isn’t always better, but it makes the old feel worse
March 28, 2017Designing for Mobile
March 13, 2017Atomic Design: where science and design collide
October 11, 2016Product or Sales? Chicken or Egg?
September 28, 2016Failure, Reflect, Renew
August 09, 2016User Experiences that Matter 2:nd Edition
November 17, 2015What is a Great User Experience?
October 06, 2015Coming soon: User Experiences that Matter e-book
September 21, 2015Increase conversions by removing social sharing buttons
September 21, 2015Time vs. Attention: Which is More Valuable?
June 30, 2015MVP: Is Your Product Really Minimum AND Viable?
June 26, 2015How designers can earn a seat at the table
June 23, 2015The days are long but the decades are short
June 16, 2015Growth
June 02, 2015The path of a successful app
May 05, 2015Working with me
April 23, 2015Planners and UX-Designers
April 14, 2015Kudos: Social Media framework
April 13, 2015Look and Feel and Feel
April 09, 2015Great user experience
April 07, 2015Naming your icons
April 07, 2015Golden Krishna on Our Job as Designers
November 13, 2014Conversations
April 09, 2013Cost, pricing and perceived value
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