Keys That Click

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Good insight into building a style guide for a large product.

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Thus, as you look at your future, the question should not be, “How can I become a billionaire?” You should ask, “Where can I get Enough?”

Fantastic, FANTASTIC, advice.

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Spotted this morning at London's Giddyup Coffee in Fortune Park (near the Barbican): this terrific Venn diagram/grill menu. Haven't tried Giddyup's grill, but it's my daily morning coffee, and it is spectacular.

Ha! Love it.

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The Design Process: A Pyramid

Finally, put a cherry on top with surprising and delightful details that let the soul really shine all the way through.

A like the simplicity of the process (while understanding the amount of work that goes into each stage). I like the final point.

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My employees reviewed me, and I kind of suck.

My first reaction was surprise. Then defensiveness. Maybe a bit of anger. I thought things like, “Well, Steve Jobs had issues, but Apple turned out just fine. It’ll be ok, Greg. Grab a beer.”

Great read and lots of insights for managers and would-be managers.

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INFOGRAPHIC: Why Infographics Are Terrible

The point of an infographic is to use visual cues to convey information more clearly and readily than would be possible using text alone. This is a great infographic. So is this. Great infographics can be absurdly simple or dizzyingly complex, so long as theyre intelligible and coherent. The Internet...

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LukeW Ideation + Design provides resources for mobile and Web product design and strategy including presentations, workshops, articles, books and more on usability, interaction design and visual design.

Good tips on using/creating embedded fonts for web icons.

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50 posts!

I like this approach for motivating people to participate more!

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Building for UX edge cases is a great way to mess up the experience 100% of the time to address what happens 0.1% of the time.

Ryan Freitas – https://twitter.com/ryanchris/status/390889129409773569

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Good tips on managing a ux team.

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This increase in understanding the power of great design has led to more and more design jobs, and more and more companies knowing they need great design to compete. However, these same companies don’t really understand what they need, it’s a new discipline to them, and so go to places like Dribbble to find “good designers”. But Dribbble isn’t representative of what design really is. And therein lies the vicious cycle:

Great article on hiring designers. Also take a look at the related article on the Dribbblisation of Design.

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From Google Ventures: How To Hire The Best Designer For Your Team

The key to recruiting for a startup is to craft a realistic job description. And stop looking for unicorns--they dont exist writes Google Ventures...

Good read when looking to hire designers.

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The logo is just flat-out quintessential, distilled, pure New York.

A brief, but interesting history on the NY Yankees logo.

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This gif is very important

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The Bridge Pizza in Missoula uses these boxes…they’re awessoooome

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just blew my mind.

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Looks like a lot of work, but it's still really cool.

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Design Thinking is Killing Creativity

A fellow designer and I were discussing this in detail and jointly came to this disappointing conclusion. avi-bisram.com/design-thinking-killing-creativity/

Curated by User Experience - UX - Mobile - Design - Jerry Lieveld

Related posts:

Should Designers Fear Design-Thinking MBAs?

Introduction to Design Thinking

A manifesto to connect experience design with content thinking

http://bit.ly/15bxIWT

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Apple Sucks at Weather

iOS 7 brought with it a revamped notification centre, and with that a text summary of the weather at hand. I find I check notification centre a lot more than I ever use to on iOS 6. But something has been bothering me more and more each time I take a peak – simply put, the weather information sucks.

More often that not, I get current conditions detailed, but no mention at all of the current temperature. Thanks for letting me know it's foggy outside and there is likely low visibility, but WTF is the temperature? Should I bring a jacket? How about a parka? Maybe a speedo will suffice? I have to launch an app to get that information (sure it's a tap away, but still).

The picture attached to this post clearly indicates what I can expect today, but not what I can expect right now. "Cloudy currently. The high will be 18. Showers tonight with a low of 14." Oh thanks. WTF is the temperature NOW? Isn't that useful information? Or in fact, isn't that the most crucial bit of weather information you can give someone? Imagine their stock ticker indicated a stock's price has dropped, but didn't bother telling you what it's current trading price is. 

How can this be overlooked by the mighty UX and UI overlords at Apple? My theory? They live in a place where it's just too damn nice. It's always pleasant, so the other conditions are really all that matters. I checked... their mean temperature ranges from 10 C to 21 C (wow, must be nice). Can that be it? Or maybe, it's because it's called the "TODAY" view, so they're telling you about what's going on today, not right now. But they are inconsistent in that regard as well. Sometimes the weather info is about right now, sometimes it's about the day in general.

Anyways - so what's my point? Apple sucks at weather. Please get better. Talk to your neighbours to the north, to the east, to the south. Temperature matters. 

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