Two years ago, I wrote What is DevOps . Although that article was good for its time, our understanding of organizational behavior, and its relationship to the operation of complex systems, has grown.
A Candid Look at Unread’s First Year To my knowledge, indie developers don’t publish the kind of numbers that you’ll find in this post. My sales records are none of your business , as the saying quite literally goes. The question in your mind will no doubt be why am I writing this at all? It’s a…
Reinventing The Hyperlink 1st August 2014 Hi everybody! I've just done a lot of cocaine on the company expense account and I want to talk to you about navigational action controls called "hyperlinks"
3 min read · Aug 4, 2014 -- The last company you’ll ever need. Today we are pleased to announce Last Mile, a company that will change the way you live your life everyday. With today’s hectic pace and
If you are a web developer or designer you know what :hover selector essentially does; browser detects current mouse cursor position, checks if the cursor is inside the element then adds the css rules
The ups, downs, late nights, year-long hiatuses, caffeine overdoses, and daily struggles working with the most meticulously demanding client of all — yourself. 8 min read · Feb 4, 2014 -- They say the
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Who needs the Internet of Things? Not you, but corporations who want to imprison you in their technological ecosystem Prepare yourself. The Internet of Things is coming, whether we like it or not appa
Jul 22, 2014 How Do You Design Interaction? About The Author Luca Leone is a freelance self-taught interaction designer with a background in macroeconomics from his formal studies at Milano Bocconi Un
On Saturday, a Twitter account appeared that perfectly predicted the outcome of the final World Cup game, down to who scored the winning goal for Germany. It was a con—and a classic one. (We’ll talk a
The above painting of a cat as Napoleon Bonaparte helped me get my startup team acquired, become a partner at MetaLab , and meet Jon to start Need/Want together (which produces SmartBedding , Mod Notebooks , and more). There’s a million books on how to “network” and meet cool people. I think they’re…
What is a UX Torturer? The UX Torturer is a new and emerging role in the field of UX. Whereas the typical UX Designer is a one-trick pony who can only improve the user experience, the UX Torturer spec
I love my job. I make Transformers vs. G.I.Joe comics on a monthly basis (with the help of my co-writer John Barber ). As part of due diligence, it's my duty to see Transformers: Age of Extinction . M
API design for an event-driven world REST and HATEOAS are designed around request response cycles. New thinking is needed for bidirectional, event-driven, realtime APIs. January 24, 2014 Updated May 2
Last week I attended Google I/O for the first time and participated on a small panel about cross-platform design challenges. There was so much going on that it was a bit of sensory overload, much like
Where to even begin? Between the TSA screenings and the watered-down coffee and the flight attendants that manage to be folksy and robotic at the same irritating time, we can all agree: Flying sucks. Design-driven companies such as Uber and Airbnb have reimagined how we get to airports, and where we…
"Where the fuck do you find UX clients?" - Part 1 of 7 How I deleted my portfolio and made $30k in 6 weeks Have you noticed some people kill it without a portfolio? I have. In fact, I’ve met design firms doing millions of dollars in client work with nothing more than ”coming soon” on their website.…
All that beautiful, barely inhabited land … Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images California is an earthly paradise. Yet there is something badly broken about the Golden State. At its best, California is Am
Originally published in 2005 and updated in 2023, this is the classic essay by Ken Norton that has been read millions of times. It defined the role of product management and launched thousands of PM c
Published in Nick Crocker · 5 min read · Jun 28, 2014 -- Remember you will die. Maybe even today. Don’t forget that. Don’t forget to be thankful for your health. For the ability to walk. For the time
I heard an argument forwarded by Andrew Hinton way back in Dublin at the Inteaction12 conference. The short form goes like this: “ Users don’t have goals. ” (UDHG for short.) Being a big believer in Goal-Directed Design, I thought the argument to be self-evidently flawed, but since it came up again…
As one or two of you older people may know, I’ve wasted my life as a television journalist and historian writing books and articles and making TV shows about technology and science and their social effect, and just so you get into proper perspective what I’d like to say this afternoon, let me remind…
Hi, Marc . I grew up using your work. Thanks to one of my parents being employed by a university, I got to use Mosaic to browse the early Web way before most people had even heard of it. My first software development internship was a summer spent using beta versions of Netscape technologies – what…
Yesterday, one of the more interesting people in Silicon Valley did one of the more interesting things that the car industry has seen in a while. Elon Musk, the C.E.O. of Tesla, opened up all of his p
The other day I stumbled upon a Quora’s question related to Front End Engineering and Startups on “Why is it that startups have trouble finding front end developers?”. The OP adds the following notes: (…) I think most people would agree that front end development is much easier than other fields of…
Hi God, Thanks so much for the latest round of work. Really coming together. Few points of feedback: 1 – Really liking the whole light thing but not totally sure about the naming system. “Day” and “ni
Ami Ben David is the co-founder of EverythingMe. A seasoned veteran with experience as a founder, an executive and a VC, Ami is in charge of EverythingMe’s marketing and strategy. Everybody in tech is suddenly talking about context. In his TED interview, Larry Page talks about context as the future…
Any non-trivial site or application on the Web today will contain a large amount of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. As the use of the Internet evolves and our dependence on it increases, having a plan for
By Matthieu Larcher on May 26, 2014 This article from Matthieu Larcher is also available in French . Introduction DoCSSa is a Sass based architecture and methodology. You can read about it at docssa.i
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