Marius Masalar asks the question of which input device is easier to use. His own answer? Both. > My usage is by no means exclusively as described above, but in general if I’m moving a cursor and clicking, it’s with the mouse, and if I’m navigating a canvas or scrolling, it’s with the trackpad. Personally, with a trackpad on one machine (my main laptop) and Magic Mouse on another (our family laptop), there’s no comparison. I’ll take a trackpad 100% of the time. All the pain I used to experience…
Yeah, I’m a sucker for this kind of post — I love to read about what people purchase for traveling and how they pack it all to go. Craig Mod shares his kit and since his recent travels are a little more robust than most, the list is long and contains some gear many of us do not need. But it’s fun to read regardless. I didn’t go through the exercise, but I’m betting Craig’s list here is in excess of $20,000. Good gear costs more for good reason and I’m a fan of…
The problem with trying to adopt Niklas Luhman's slip-box method is figuring out how to start. The focus of all materials you find is very much on why you should use this method, but hardly much at all is been said about how you use it. Or rather, how one gets started.
All shoe companies claim unique designs, but once in a while a shoe comes along that actually deserves the disctinction. Are the offerings from On Running worthy?
Alan Jacobs shares why he likes writing his newsletter each week (emphasis mine): > Since I wrote that post I have started a newsletter, because a email newsletter is also a seasoned technology, and I wondered if I might be able to do some things with it that I can’t do with this blog. I’m still experimenting, still learning, still looking for what will make that project sing — but I am really enjoying it so far, and getting some lovely responses from people, and this morning I realized that on…
Good software is built by helping people do what they need better than they can currently. Adding new features does not necessarily have that result.
Matthias Ott is another person making a fresh plea for people to ditch social media and publishing platforms like Medium for a much more promising and healthy technology: > There is one alternative to social media sites and publishing platforms that has been around since the early, innocent days of the web. It is an alternative that provides immense freedom and control: The personal website. Hear, hear. Not only does he share why running your own site is good, but he takes it a further step an…
In the past, I’ve used Sketch a lot to illustrate concepts for my team, or create user journeys, or onboarding flows. Although it’s a full design tool for making mockups or full product designs, I found it also worked well for conceptual models. Here’s an example [https://wildbit.com/blog/2017/07/22/a-framework-for-creating-a-robust-onboarding-workflow] I made for showing the ideal user journey for a Beanstalk customer. Over the past couple of years, I haven’t needed to make this type of thin…