Project Team Health Monitor
helps your project – and more importantly, your project team – function as effectively as possible so you can focus on nailing your deliverables.
Source: www.atlassian.com
All links from
123 interesting links collected during 2018, including "Project Team Health Monitor" and "My Dated Predictions".
Product List UX: Explain Industry-Specific Filters (91% Don’t)
Filters can turn an overwhelming and unmanageable product list into one that’s much more focused on products relevant to the user
Source: baymard.com
Why you should do UX workshops with customer support
I put together a UX workshop and did an open invite to the client support team. This accomplished 2 things: we were able to unearth usability problems we didn’t even know were problems and we built a bridge between departments, facilitating collaboration between support and product.
Source: uxdesign.cc
My struggle with colors
Utilizing a systematic approach towards color reduces, yet does not eliminate subjectivity.
Source: uxdesign.cc
DeepMind’s AlphaZero beats state-of-the-art chess and shogi game engines
I feel that my conception and understanding of the game had been altered and enriched. AlphaZero has provided us with a check on everything we as humans have taught ourselves about the game of chess
Source: venturebeat.com
Measuring the Filter Bubble: How Google is influencing what you click
Private browsing mode and being logged out of Google offered very little filter bubble protection.
Source: spreadprivacy.com
Bootstrapping a Working Agreement for the Agile Team
Running a Working Agreement workshop as early as possible is crucial for setting the team up for success.
Source: blog.crisp.se
Go Ahead and Use the Hotel Wi-Fi
That’s not because hotel and airport Wi-Fi networks have necessarily gotten that much more secure. The web itself has.
Source: www.wired.com
How we fixed 30 bugs in one day
What if we would give all these small quirks their own day with all the attention they deserve? What if we could flip the tables and make them the most important projects? We call it THE BIG BUG HUNT.
Source: blog.confetti.events
Uptime Robot
50 Monitors, Checked Every 5 Minutes
Source: uptimerobot.com
CSS outline property - outline: none and outline: 0
There’s no real reason to remove the outline
Source: www.outlinenone.com
11 proven practices for more effective, efficient peer code review
You should always spend at least five minutes reviewing code, even if it’s just one line
Source: www.ibm.com
iPhones are hard to use
I once wrote a user manual for a handheld engine-diagnostics module for Daewoo cars. I know "hard to use" when I see it. iPhones are hard to use.
Source: blog.fawny.org
Mobile contact form analysis
Hemnet has decided to do away with forms all together and simply list an email address, leaving communication entirely in the user’s hands!
Source: www.mikedp.com
ZEIT – Now 2.0
Now 2.0 works like an extensible build system and compiler, capable of transforming your sources into static files and serverless functions (lambdas) for production.
Source: zeit.co
NS, Mecanoo and Gispen share their common vision of a train interior at the Innovation Expo 2018
The train of the future will let you get more out of your day, for example because you are able to work undisturbed. It will turn journey time into working time. Or time for reading, chatting or chilling out.
Source: www.re-thinkingthefuture.com
Coding is Like Baking
How quickly you can bake a fantastic cake depends on three main factors. Turns out, it’s the same three for software
Source: www.praqma.com
Länets okända Vatikanstater
På minst sex platser kan man hitta vilsekomna kommundelar som juridiskt tillhör en kommun men geografiskt sett ligger någon helt annanstans. Som borttappade vantar ligger de utspridda lite här och var i länet.
Source: www.ltz.se
Ett högt spel utan spel i Offside
Från och med i dag upphör vi med all form av spelbolagsreklam. Inga fler annonser i tidningen, inga banners på hemsidan, inga fler jinglar i podcasten.
Source: www.offside.org
MODALZ MODALZ MODALZ
Let’s just not.
Source: modalzmodalzmodalz.com
Hey, can you ‘do the UX’ for us?
John has 8 UXs in their bag and gives 3 to Joe. How many UXs does John have left?
Source: uxdesign.cc
The Long, Weird Story Explaining Why I Bid $700 For a Stolen PSN Account
"From what I can gather I have lost that account and Sony can’t or won’t do jack shit about it. If the person who stole it is also locked out that is one thing, but I couldn’t get a concrete answer on that piece of info."
Source: waypoint.vice.com
Barn är barn – överlistar Apples begränsningar
ett av dom vanligaste tillvägagångssätten är helt enkelt att ställa tillbaka klockan på telefonen. Det går även att lösa det hela genom att radera en app eller ett spel som har skärmbegränsning för att sedan ladda ned det igen
Source: teknikveckan.com
Trashy.css - The throwaway CSS library with no class
allow a user to visually see what would otherwise be invisible semantic tags, and adds a hand drawn effect to prevent observers from paying too much attention to the aesthetics of a document.
Source: t7.github.io
Svenskar söker sig bort från storstadens puls
Krogliv, nöjen och storstadspuls är inte av vikt när svenskarna letar ny bostad. I stället vill vi ha närhet till natur och grönområden – en reaktion som kan ses spegla ett allt mer stressigt och uppkopplat liv
Source: tt.omni.se
Flyover country no more: Why millennials are flocking to Rust Belt real estate
As real estate prices in major U.S. cities continue to soar, some young buyers and renters have decided to take their business elsewhere. They’re investing in homes in such states as Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin, experts say, in search of more affordable living and new places to plant down roots.
Source: www.cnbc.com
Getting Users to a Specific Feature in a Usability Test
It’s best to let users wander their merry way around a website to get the most realistic data about how they approach a task. But in some studies, you can save a lot of time by bookmarking specific destinations
Source: www.nngroup.com
Final Fantasy's Guide to Onboarding
The techniques we’ll review in this article are the ones that make FFVII immersive and empowering to the player. They can also be implemented in the world of web and mobile apps, where I have spent the majority of my career. Let’s take a look at some of those interactions, and how they’re being successfully implemented in the wild.
Source: www.uxbooth.com
Ever wonder why the most popular apps are starting to look the same? It might be a good thing
With interface designs trending towards consolidation, designers can spend less time worrying about what color or how big a button should be and more about why it should be there in the first place.
Source: uxdesign.cc
Introducing The Tarot Cards of Tech
encourage creators to think about the outcomes technology can create, from unintended consequences to opportunities for positive change. The cards are our way of helping you gaze into the future to determine how to make your product the best it can be.
Source: www.artefactgroup.com
Extended Validation Certificates are Dead
Their usefulness has now descended from "barely there" to "as good as non-existent". This change has come via a combination of factors including increasing use of mobile devices, removal of the EV visual indicator by browser vendors and as of today, removal from Safari on iOS
Source: www.troyhunt.com
Google Search now uses Service Worker for repeated searches
Google Search is now using Service Worker to cache repeated searches, loading results twice as fast.
Source: venturebeat.com
100% av teamet i en mobb i 12 månader — att ta mobbprogrammering ett par steg längre.
I 12 månader har jag nu varit UX designer/researcher i en mobb på 6 personer som jobbar med digitala tjänster för framförallt SVT Sport.
Source: medium.com
Take control of your scroll: customizing pull-to-refresh and overflow effects
You can use it to cancel scroll chaining, disable/customize the pull-to-refresh action, disable rubberbanding effects on iOS (when Safari implements overscroll-behavior), and more.
Source: developers.google.com
Scroll Bouncing On Your Websites
If you don’t want your fixed headers or footers to bounce around on your web pages, you can now use the overscroll-behavior CSS property.
Source: www.smashingmagazine.com
Products Are Functions
Products are easier to reason about when you think of them as functions. They transform an input situation into an output situation.
Source: www.feltpresence.com
The Nordnet Brand
Welcome to the home of the Nordnet Brand – an open platform where you will find everything about our identity. Get to know our vision and principles and take a look at the elements we are using to make our brand come alive.
Source: brand.nordnet.se
Practical Web Cache Poisoning
I’ll show you how to compromise websites by using esoteric web features to turn their caches into exploit delivery systems, targeting everyone that makes the mistake of visiting their homepage
Source: portswigger.net
An Iterative Waterfall Isn’t Agile
If you are treating your user stories as miniature specification documents, stop. Start instead thinking about each as a promise to have a conversation.
Source: www.mountaingoatsoftware.com
What every product designer should take away from Lyft’s new UI
Lyft doesn’t make you stretch your thumb one bit; the search bar is in the sweet spot.
Source: uxdesign.cc
Public Consultation on summertime arrangements
Vi vill gärna få in synpunkter från allmänheten, intressenter och EU-länderna på systemet med sommartid och eventuella ändringar.
Source: ec.europa.eu
Learn Business and Become a Better Software Developer
Because at the end of the day, your job is not to write code. Your job is to create business value.
Source: hackernoon.com
Young people can’t use Facebook, old people can’t use Snapchat — why?
Teens simply have staggeringly low attention-spans. The fast-paced, brightly colored scrolling of Instagram and the red-notification-filled, ephemeral feel of Snapchat fit it perfectly.
Source: uxdesign.cc
Brutalist design is the bad influence we all need
Web-brutalism is moving from something edgy and almost punk, to something very mainstream and commercially viable
Source: www.imaginarycloud.com
How You Can Aid User Scanning by Using Eyebrow Headlines
An eyebrow headline is a descriptive keyword or phrase placed above the main headline and blurb. It appears in a smaller font and sums up all the text in a couple words.
Source: uxmovement.com
88 books to enjoy this summer
Whether your weeks ahead contain travel, vacations or just longer and lazier days than usual, our list of recommendations from TED speakers has books for all moods, activities and tastes.
Source: ideas.ted.com
Söderström kräver: Bättre informationsdesign
Tack SJ, men jag vet vad jag heter...
Source: www.inuse.se
Stop "feeding" your users
I’m increasingly skeptical that feeds actually save anyone time.
Source: ux.shopify.com
Overachieving Ivy League students are learning the wrong lesson about what it takes to be successful
Creativity cannot come from a mind that is stressed and overworked. Creativity does not emerge when you’re sitting at your computer for 12 hours a day. Creativity emerges when the mind is at rest, daydreaming, or spacing out.
Source: qz.com
Questions to ask as a new designer on the team
By ignoring the knowledge the team had learned in the past, I managed to create one of the most context-free, unscientific, and useless designs the team had seen.
Source: medium.com
What we learned from getting our autocomplete tested for accessibility
We had our autocomplete/location picker tested for accessibility. We had completed a fair amount of in-house testing with a range of assistive technologies. We thought working with a third party to test it would be a great way of checking that we were on the right track
Source: accessibility.blog.gov.uk
Web Performance 101—also, why is Gatsby so fast?
Gatsby is a metacompiler if you will. It takes your site and from it compiles an optimized webpack/Babel configuration for building the site.
Source: gatsbyjs.org
Compilers are the New Frameworks
What we call web frameworks are transforming from runtime libraries into optimizing compilers
Source: tomdale.net
Zillow, Aggregation, and Integration
Buying houses with the click-of-a-button solves a major problem for sellers, the most disadvantaged party in the entire value chain under the status quo
Source: stratechery.com
Your Pretty Face is Going to Sell
YouTube Face is most prominent in the preview images for videos. It surrounds whatever video you’re watching in a big grid of emotion.
Source: openspace.sfmoma.org
Designing New Ways to Give Context to News Stories
We’re announcing the US launch of a feature that gives people more background on both the publisher and the article. We want to share the process behind this product.
Source: medium.com
The Inside Story of Reddit’s Redesign
the changes have turned Reddit from an esoteric maze into a website anyone can use—like a junk drawer that’s been gutted, cleaned, and reorganized
Source: www.wired.com
Upplev när det är en utmaning att surfa
Webbläsartillägget Web Disability Simulator hjälper dig att förstå hur personer med olika funktionsnedsättningar uppfattar webben.
Source: www.metamatrix.se
Därför bestämde jag mig för att radera mitt Facebook-konto
Att försöka komma på en enda anledning till varför jag raderar mitt Facebook-konto är som att försöka bestämma sig för vilken droppe som orsakade översvämningen.
Source: medium.com
New Slack Tool Lets Your Boss Potentially Access Far More of Your Data Than Before
This new tool should streamline things so they can archive all your shit-talk and time-wasting with colleagues on a regular basis.
Source: gizmodo.com
Om myndigheter reste som de bygger IT
Efter åtta månader av planering har gruppen hyrt en minibuss, som nu ska tankas.
Source: inteutanminasikt.wordpress.com
Listing Embeddings for Similar Listing Recommendations and Real-time Personalization in Search
We believe that the embedding approach for personalization and recommendation is very powerful and useful for any type of online marketplace on the Web.
Source: medium.com
Fuck productivity hacks
The happiest teams I’ve met are those who enjoy collaborating with each other. They do schedule one or two hours every day for solo work, though.
Source: www.linkedin.com
Better Words Make Better Products
When you have that many people writing for ONE single brand, how do you make sure that no matter where you interact with Microsoft, the words feel like they were written by the same team?
Source: medium.com
What can we learn from the design of Chinese delivery apps?
What I think the Chinese apps do well from a UX perspective
Source: uxdesign.cc
Three things that make the Daily Scrum a waste of time
We regularly work with teams that see the daily scrum as irrelevant, disruptive, and boring. They are often right.
Source: www.agilityinmind.com
What is a glossary, LOL? Documentation for the disorganized content strategist
Some projects can’t get off the ground till everyone agrees on what certain words mean. Some teams confuse one another by referring to UI elements with different terms. Some teams need someone to reframe words like "innovative" and "optimize" for them so that they can start thinking like their users and have more empathy for them. Some executives just ask for one for no reason.
Source: medium.com
GraphQL abuse: Bypass account level permissions through parameter smuggling
the ability to bypass the account level permissions set within the application and call queries through GraphQL that are normally only allowed to be called by administrators. I call this "smuggling" queries but there is probably a much more technical explanation
Source: labs.detectify.com
An Overview of JavaScript Testing in 2018
Know the big picture of the state of JavaScript testing in the web development community for 2018
Source: medium.com
Security.txt
Thanks to security.txt, security researchers can easily get in touch with companies about security issues.
Source: securitytxt.org
The Testing Renaissance
It may be hard to believe, but throwing away single class tests can actually make development teams faster.
Source: blog.twitter.com
Testing Microservices, the sane way
The sooner we come to terms with the fact that it’s a fool’s errand to try to predict every possible way in which a service might be exercised and write a regression test case for it, the sooner we’re likely to embrace a less dysfunctional approach to testing
Source: medium.com
DNSFS. Store your files in others DNS resolver caches
Some resolvers will hold DNS cache entries for a whole week if asked to
Source: blog.benjojo.co.uk
On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs
It’s as if someone were out there making up pointless jobs just for the sake of keeping us all working.
Source: strikemag.org
Component-Based Rails Applications
Component-based Rails (with the ‘a’ standing for architecture or application) is a code organization and management technique that breaks large applications into small, distinct parts. These parts are separate from and maintain explicit dependencies between each other. Components are implemented as gems and engines.
Source: shageman.github.io
The Modular Monolith
we have a way of communicating with all third-party APIs that we use which is completely separated from any persistence or application logic.
Source: medium.com
Classifying and measuring tech debt in GOV.UK
we now try to pay down tech debt alongside regular mission work. All teams share the overarching aims of constantly improving our platform and paying down debt where it builds up
Source: insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk
AMP for email is a terrible idea | TechCrunch
Were people complaining that clicking "yes" on an RSVP email took them to the invitation site? Were they asking to have a video chat window open inside the email with the link? No. No one cares.
Source: techcrunch.com
The Two Faces of AMP
Look, AMP, you’re either a tool for the open web, or you’re a tool for Google search. I don’t mind if you’re the latter, but please stop pretending you’re something else.
Source: timkadlec.com
URL Design
Try to think through and plan for the URL structure when you are designing your product. Don’t let frameworks or chance affect the result.
Source: styleguide.svt.se
Inverse Reinforcement Learning
In many cases it is easier to instead observe expert behavior and let them demonstrate how to achieve the desired goal. Instead of simply copying this expert behavior, we can then try to learn the underlying reward function which the expert is trying to optimize.
Source: thinkingwires.com
Designing Windows 95’s User Interface
Perhaps the best testament to our belief in iterative design is that literally no detail of the initial UI design for Windows 95 survived unchanged in the final product.
Source: socket3.wordpress.com
Your Sketch library is not a design system | Brad Frost
you can’t build working software out of screenshots and Sketch files
Source: bradfrost.com
A Rocket To Nowhere
Future archaeologists trying to understand what the Shuttle was for are going to have a mess on their hands.
Source: idlewords.com
Color Perception Across Cultures – Do You See What I See?
Cultural groups throughout the world talk about color differently—some don’t even have a word for color. So is color perception a universal human experience or not?
Source: www.sapiens.org
iOS 11.3 hints at Apple’s work on an iCloud-based single sign-on solution for websites
Strings found in SecureChannel mention that a website using this authentication method will be able to access the user’s personal iCloud data
Source: 9to5mac.com
0-day-sårbarhet i Adobe Flash Player − www.cert.se
rekommenderar användare av Adobe Flash Player att överväga behovet och om ej nödvändigt, avinstallera.
Source: www.cert.se
Using Google Analytics for data extraction
If an attacker finds an HTML injection on your website and you allow Google Analytics in the CSP, they are able to inject an image making an event request to Google Analytics
Source: labs.detectify.com
–force considered harmful; understanding git’s –force-with-lease
–force-with-lease is a useful tool for the git user who sometimes needs to force-push
Source: developer.atlassian.com
Paperclip maximizer
The canonical thought experiment showing how an artificial general intelligence, even one designed competently and without malice, could ultimately destroy humanity.
Source: wiki.lesswrong.com
Cross-window communication
The "Same Origin" (same site) policy limits access of windows and frame to each other.
Source: javascript.info
Google Flights now predicts delays and shows how bad ‘basic economy’ fares really are
Google Flights will combine historical data with machine learning smarts to tell you when a delay may occur.
Source: venturebeat.com
Driverless Hotel Rooms: The End of Uber, Airbnb and Human Landlords
By decoupling accommodation and the physical location, we decentralize housing and empower the individual to instantly switch to alternative locations.
Source: hackernoon.com
REST is the new SOAP
How come REST means so much WORK?
Source: medium.freecodecamp.org
Human-Centered Design and the Missile False Alarm in Hawaii
Let loose on the emergency alert system some good interaction designers who are knowledgeable about humans and familiar with human-centered principles. They will come to your rescue before you need it.
Source: medium.com
Running in Circles
An "agile" team isn’t going to get very far if management doesn’t protect their time. And if they don’t have flexibility to change requirements as they learn, late nights and late delivery are guaranteed.
Source: m.signalvnoise.com
No More FAQs: Create Purposeful Information for a More Effective User Experience
Your website should be filled with purposeful content that meets users’ core needs and fulfills your company’s objectives.
Source: alistapart.com
Så plockar du bort chefen
En platt organisation, där medarbetarna själva har alla befogenheter, är enligt Karin Tenelius det enda sättet att få ut fullt engagemang och ansvarstagande från medarbetarna.
Source: www.nyteknik.se
Forget About Setting Goals
If you completely ignored your goals and focused only on your system, would you still get results?
Source: jamesclear.com
Four crucial steps to successful onboarding
In the spirit of saving money and preventing some fellow developers from dying of boredom or stress — I’ve put together a checklist for successful onboarding.
Source: www.fredonism.com
Thinking in writing
While it sure is possible to reason about complex problems without writing anything down, you will get far better results if you practice thinking in writing
Source: www.fredonism.com
TTL=1
As long as your thing is using its default password, or a blank password, hardcode it to use TTL=1.
Source: blog.clavister.com
Utveckling utan att organisera om varje år - Går det?
Ditt mål blir att skapa en organisation som anpassar sig efter kontinuerligt föränderliga behov. En organisation där förändring är en normalt del av vardagen, inte ett stort evenemang som gör alla osäkra.
Source: www.changeforfun.com
Produktägare: överblicken först!
Otydliga prioriteringar bidrar till långa ledtider, uteblivet teamwork och lägre arbetsglädje
Source: www.linkedin.com
The End of Reorganizations
A self-reflective culture allows the culture to evolve in accordance with the changes in the business context in which the company operates.
Source: www.linkedin.com
What is Capacity in software development?
Every team, project or organization has an inherent capacity. Your job is to learn what that capacity is and limit the work to capacity!
Source: softwaredevelopmenttoday.com
The Journey to Hijacking a Country's DNS
Given the incredibly large attack surface I’m surprised that compromise of TLDs/domain extensions isn’t a more frequent event.
Source: index.html
FRA:s sajt kraschade
Något kan gå snett, datorer kan säcka ihop. Om det inträffar så bör man ha en reservplan. Tyvärr saknar många det här idag, det finns inga reservsajter
Source: www.svd.se
No tracking, no revenue: Apple's privacy feature costs ad companies millions
The Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) feature for Safari, which holds 15% of the global browser market, is likely to cut its 2018 revenue by more than a fifth compared to projections made before ITP was announced.
Source: www.theguardian.com
The visionary leadership work is done
Source: dilbert.com
Long Island Iced Tea Corp. Changes Name To Long Blockchain
Long Blockchain will focus on "the exploration of and investment in opportunities that leverage the benefits of blockchain technology,"
Source: www.investors.com
Net Promoter Score Considered Harmful (and What UX Professionals Can Do About It)
There’s no one number that represents a company’s customer experience. Not even NPS. Yet, that won’t stop us from trying.
Source: jmspool.medium.com
In Organizational Agile Change Management , Culture Comes Last -LeadingAgile
The iterative cycle of behavior modification is that you can NOT change a belief system, until you first have some positive behavioral evidence, which only happens after you create a safe and stable operational environment.
Source: www.leadingagile.com
I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site. Here’s how.
If you have a proper "content security policy" your users are safe
Source: hackernoon.com
Front-End Performance Checklist 2018
An overview of the issues you might need to consider to ensure that your response times are fast, user interaction is smooth and your sites don’t drain user’s bandwidth
Source: www.smashingmagazine.com
10 pro tips for managing the performance of your third-party scripts
A typical web page today can contain upwards of 75 third-party scripts, such as ads and analytics beacons. If you care about web performance, these scripts can be the bane of your existence.
Source: www.soasta.com
How 3rd Party Scripts can be performant citizens on the web
There are a number of strategies can be employed to deliver 3rd party scripts in a manner which limits their negative effects on performance.
Source: www.twnsnd.com
Performance and Resilience: Stress-Testing Third Parties
Third party providers are a necessary evil in almost all development projects, and if we’re going to entrust parts of our site or product to others, we ought to have a very good idea of what happens when things go wrong. Stress-testing third parties is a standard part of any of the bits of performance work
Source: csswizardry.com
I Made My Shed the Top Rated Restaurant On TripAdvisor
A restaurant that doesn’t exist is currently the highest ranked in one of the world’s biggest cities, on perhaps the internet’s most trusted reviews site.
Source: www.vice.com
Review of A seat at the table
I’ve just read a classic. Mark my words - we will mention, refer to and hear a lot about Mark Schwartz great book "A seat at the table".
Source: www.marcusoft.net
Optimizing for Large-Scale Displays
Leverage the tools already available to us when building responsive websites to scale up and adapt our content for large-scale displays
Source: css-tricks.com
Ad targeters are pulling data from your browser’s password manager
The scripts work by injecting invisible login forms in the background of the webpage and scooping up whatever the browsers autofill into the available slots.
Source: www.theverge.com
My Dated Predictions
It is the New Year and there will be many predictions about what will happen in the coming year. I am going to take this opportunity to make predictions myself, not just about the coming year, but rather the next thirty two years.
Source: rodneybrooks.com