Wednesday is Link Day! – Still Breathing

Business / Working Life

Data is not an asset, it’s a liability: https://www.richie.fi/blog/data-is-a-liability.html

Strategic procrastination: https://the-pastry-box-project.net/erin-mckean/2015-September-11

Putting on the shipping goggles: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3931-putting-on-the-shipping-goggles (if you’re not a regular reader of Signal vs Noise then you should be)

Reduce the distance between the people who make decisions about the product and the people who build the product: http://alistapart.com/column/the-distance-to-here

Everything is broken: https://medium.com/message/everything-is-broken-81e5f33a24e1

Fluid coupling: When exactly did enterprises become late adopters of technology? http://www.asymco.com/2015/08/31/fluid-coupling/

Preparing organisations to become design-infused: https://medium.com/uie-brain-sparks/preparing-organizations-to-become-design-infused-8a0d93b50d36

New, responsive design reduces bounce rate at asda.com by 37%: http://www.retailtimes.co.uk/new-responsive-design-reduces-bounce-rate-at-asda-com-by-37/

Design

Little Big Details: taking inspiration from the little details that make designs great: http://littlebigdetails.com/

Predictive personas: http://blog.invisionapp.com/predictive-personas/ quote: ‘…the question they should be asking themselves isn’t, “If I interviewed a user, would this describe her?” The question should be, “If I found a person like this, would she become a user?”’

Forget about the mobile Internet: http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2015/9/1/forget-about-mobile-internet

The gov.uk style guide: http://govuk-elements.herokuapp.com/ (other examples available on http://styleguides.io/)

Style guide from Salesforce: https://www.lightningdesignsystem.com/

Improving the checkout experience with animations: https://medium.com/bridge-collection/improve-the-payment-experience-with-animations-3d1b0a9b810e (but read the article below…)

Design safer animation for motion sensitivity: http://alistapart.com/article/designing-safer-web-animation-for-motion-sensitivity

Design patterns: http://ui-patterns.com/patterns

Front-end principles for designers: http://jonyablonski.com/2015/front-end-principles-for-designers/

The language of modular design: http://alistapart.com/article/language-of-modular-design

How modern web design works: http://thetomorrowlab.com/2014/04/modern-web-design-works/

Progressive enhancement / Performance

Bruce Lawson’s talk “Ensuring a performant web for the next billion people”: https://dev.opera.com/articles/making-sites-work-opera-mini/ (Opera Mini is a popular browser for those with low-powered and low-bandwidth devices)

Aaron Gustafson with a timely reminder that we don’t really control our web pages: https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/more-proof-we-dont-control-our-web-pages/

Jeremy Keith’s presentation on progressive enhancement from May: https://adactio.com/articles/9465 (video and full transcript)

Preloading, prefetching, prebrowsing: https://css-tricks.com/prefetching-preloading-prebrowsing/

Embracing the network: modern techniques for building resilient front ends: https://speakerdeck.com/patrickhamann/embracing-the-network-coldfront-september-2015(slide deck, no video published yet)

A beginners guide to website speed optimisation: https://kinsta.com/learn/page-speed/

User experience / Usability / Accessibility

The psychological speed of mobile interfaces: https://medium.com/ui-collection/the-psychological-speed-of-mobile-interfaces-df25276295dd (this is much the same as “perceived performance” which I bang on about)

The device context continuum – where does the common device context continuum start and end? http://blog.cloudfour.com/on-the-device-context-continuum/ (hint: it doesn’t)

Hello, my name is <Error>: http://alistapart.com/article/hello-my-name-is-error

Living with bull: http://tinyurl.com/bullshoot

How to write an error message: https://medium.com/@thomasfuchs/how-to-write-an-error-message-883718173322

Visual ARIA bookmarklet: http://whatsock.com/training/matrices/visual-aria.htm