User experience
In a world overfilled with stuff, a captivating interface is the perfect consumer good. It packages the very act of consumption as a product. Nicholas Carr, on how we become obsessed with the interface when we're bored by the content. ☝️Guilty
Artificial Intelligence
DeepSeek showed that users find this interesting. To be clear this is a user interface choice and is not related to the model itself. Antrophic CEO Dario Amodei, On DeepSeek actually showing the user the chain-of-thought reasoning. In this "short post" Amodei discusses: * Three Dynamics of AI Development
Numbers are important. Number of users is important. So are lots of other things. Different services create value in different ways. Trust your gut as much (or more) than the numbers. Figure out what matters and build something good. Twitter & Medium founder Ev Williams, in his Medium post A
User experience
The hamburger menu is the new mystery meat navigation. @BasL
User experience
Multi-tasking is cognitively exhausting — when we do it by choice, being asked to stop can come as a welcome change. Clay Shirky, in a very thoughtful piece, explaining why he asked his students to put their laptops away…
Design
There’s no question that things like layout, shape, and color can have a profound influence on user interaction. But the features have to be there to interact with. Dr. Drang, in a footnote to his response to reactions to the WWDC Keynote on iOS8
those who don’t design for readers might soon not be designing for anyone Jeffrey Zeldman, in his Web Design Manifesto 2012
People don’t buy products – they buy the benefit. One of ZURBlog’s 3 Reasons to Focus On People, Not Products
User experience
The only problem Chromebooks appear to solve is the user problem. Datamation, Chromebook: The Computer for the Rest of Them
Content
Bookmarklet apps like Instapaper […] are pointing us toward a future in which content is no longer entrenched in websites, but floats in orbit around users. A List Apart explains, in Orbital Content, what most publishers can’t seem to grasp
Internet
it’s ambiguous in most discussions what “identity” means Twitter founder Evan Williams, on Online Identity (Wayback Machine)
rather than rethinking the icon, we should abandon the concept of explicitly saving files. Tumblr & Instapaper founder Marco Arment, on Replacing the “Save” icon