Staying up on some new tech. Here is a good read about a new potential competitor to WordPress CMS… Netlify. 
Source: Netlify: First Impressions – David Bushell – Web Design (UK)
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28 Design Tools in 28 Days
https://blog.prototypr.io/28-design-tools-in-28-days-68247ae94542
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All in One Bookmark Links for Designer – Evernote Design
This is an amazing resource for designers and devs alike. All-In-One Indeed.
Source: All in One Bookmark Links for Designer – Evernote Design
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Designing for Blockchain – Emerson Stone – Medium
Was just talking about this today. Blockchain is the new buzz word (along with cryptocurrency). Time to get my hustle on with this stuff.
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Iteration is not design – The Design Innovator – Medium
This is so good. “Design Darwinism” HA. I think this is spot on. I think what the problem here is though that you have “Product Managers” trying to think like designers and trying to go around the true design process by iterating instead of actually designing.
Source: Iteration is not design – The Design Innovator – Medium
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Comparison Tables for Products, Services, and Features
THANK YOU NNG for this article. So many sites need this and don’t utilize them. Good comparison charts are imperative to the success of an e-com site PERIOD. This article does a great job of explaining when and why to use one. Just in-case you have to make the argument that it’s worth the time and effort.
Source: Comparison Tables for Products, Services, and Features
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2017…. need to post more on here. noted.
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The UX of Hiring for UX Positions — Medium
This is decent article about how to hire a UX Designer, I don’t agree 100% with their take on it, but it’s good to get other perspectives.
TLDR; it’s hard and there is a lot to consider.
Hiring has been one of the most challenging and important tasks I’ve had in my career. Hiring the right person for the job is your chance, as a manager, to get things started off on the right foot.
Hiring for a creative design position is a bit easier than for a UX position because you can really get a sense of someone’s design skills simply by looking at their work and asking the right questions. It’s hard to bullshit your way through a portfolio if you didn’t do the work.
UX is different I think. Usually you can’t really see some of the thinking and work that’s done on the UX end of a project. It requires you as a hiring manager to really know what you need. Assessing needs for UX is tricky and then finding the right person is next to impossible.
Another problem is the people doing the hiring. Most of them don’t know what the hell UX is or how it should be set up within an organization. It’s sad really. It’s such a new field and everyone thinks they can just call them selves a UX Designer. I’ve seen product managers, project managers, print designers, account people, all of them try to pivot to UX Designer and I believe it’s going to hurt the industry in the long run, more than help (which isn’t a popular opinion apparently)
Luckily for the savvy and experienced UX Manager you can spot these frauds easily. The problem is there aren’t a lot of managers that were true UXers that have moved into that manager role yet to hire properly. No one knows where to put UX either, its just a mess in pretty much every organization.
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Making design work in large organisations
Does your organisation have design leadership?
I struggle with this everywhere I’ve worked. Even in agencies that pride themselves on being creative. The issue is that most of the leadership come from the business side and not the design side, when it should probably be flipped.
This is a pretty decent read on why it’s needed to achieve a user centered design of ANY and ALL products you produce as a business.
Source: Supersized. Making design work in large organisations
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Mossack Fonseca Breach – WordPress Revolution Slider Plugin Possible Cause
If this is true a lot of people are going to be hammering on WordPress as the problem, or plugins as the issue. WRONG. The problem is lazy web designers and developers not keeping things up to day.
As @givan2code and I have always said… “keep your shit up-to-date… nio issues”.
WOW.
Mossack Fonseca (MF), the Panamanian law firm at the center of the so called Panama Papers Breach may have been breached via a vulnerable version of Revolution Slider. The data breach has so far brought down the Prime Minister of Iceland and surrounded Russian President Putin and British Prime Minister David Cameron with controversy, among […]
Source: Mossack Fonseca Breach – WordPress Revolution Slider Plugin Possible Cause – Wordfence
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Why Mobile First Is Outdated — Inside Intercom — Medium
What really matters is screens, not devices.
Source: Why Mobile First Is Outdated — Inside Intercom — Medium
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Market Research and Usability – Whitney Interactive Design
Great article about the different types of user research out there and how they interact with each other.
Source: Market Research and Usability – Whitney Interactive Design
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Even The Best User Experience Is A Failure Without Good Customer Experience – Usability Geek
CX is so hot right now. Especially in retail and ecom. And for good reason.
Good User Experience Does Not Necessarily Mean Good Customer Experience
Although user experience and customer experience are absolutely different notions, the importance of their interrelation is criticalSource: Even The Best User Experience Is A Failure Without Good Customer Experience – Usability Geek
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Top 3 Must-Read Books of 2015 for Digital Creatives and UX Designers (and 2 more)
I read some damn good books this year. Here is the post that points out my 3 fav’s for the UX/UI Designer.
If you’re looking for a holiday gift for the designer in your life, here are a few highly recommended books that were pu…
Source: Top 3 Must-Read Books of 2015 for Digital Creatives and UX Designers (and 2 more) — Medium
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Responsive times two: essential new books from Ethan Marcotte & Karen McGrane – Zeldman on Web & Interaction Design
Ethan Marcotte’s Responsive Design: Patterns and Principles and Karen McGrane’s Going Responsive are now available in our A Book Apart store.
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You Don’t Need a Unicorn: Anatomy of a Great UX Team
There’s a lot of talk in the UX community about the coveted UX Unicorn. It’s that elusive candidate that can do everything. And while it’s tempting to think hiring such a glorious creature would solve all your UX hiring needs, … Read More
Source: You Don’t Need a Unicorn: Anatomy of a Great UX Team
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The reason behind your declining content engagement
Who didn’t see this coming. Thanks a lot BUZZFEED!
Are you seeing a decline in people engaging with your online content? If so, you are not alone. You are suffering from content saturation.
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The new rules of brand app marketing (single page view) – iMediaConnection.com
Great read about Brand Marketing Apps.
A few years ago, when launching brand apps began to get popular, lots of the activity was driven by the GMOOT. For those unfamiliar, GMOOT is short for “gimme one of those,” and refers to those circumstances when senior execs demand a shiny object instead of allowing marketers to define and implement tactics based upon a strategic foundation. The objective of a GMOOT is usually to check a box rather than make a real contribution to a business. And true to form, lots of those early brand apps did little more than put an “x” in a square.The above quote from this article is so true. It’s painfully true. And while, in the rest of the article the author tries to tell us that this is changing, that hasn’t been the reality IMHO.
Source: The new rules of brand app marketing (single page view) – iMediaConnection.com
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In Search of the Design Documentation Unicorn
This is something that I think any design team, UI or UX or traditional struggle with. There is no such thing as the unicorn, but this is a good place to start.
The U in TeamSource: In Search of the Design Documentation Unicorn — EightShapes LLC — Medium
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Chrome OS rumored to be folded into Android as early as 2017
GAME. CHANGER.
Source: Chrome OS rumored to be folded into Android as early as 2017
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