Cultivating a sense of the galactic centre (Interconnected)
I love the idea of cultivating a sixth sense for the location of Sagittarius A.
(I bet Matt would get a kick out of Charlotte’s magnet fingers too.)
Link tags: direction
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A Short History of Bi-Directional Links
A wonderful look at the kind of links we didn’t get on the World Wide Web.
From the memex and Xanadu right up to web mentions, this ticks all my boxes!
(And can I just say, it’s so much fun to explore all of Maggie Appleton’s site …or should I say web garden.)
Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites
1,841 instances of dark patterns on ecommerce sites, in the categories of sneaking, urgency, misdirection, social proof, scarcity, obstruction, and forced action. You can browse this overview, read the paper, or look at the raw data.
We conducted a large-scale study, analyzing ~53K product pages from ~11K shopping websites to characterize and quantify the prevalence of dark patterns.
Superfan! — Sacha Judd
The transcript of a talk that is fantastic in every sense.
Fans are organised, motivated, creative, technical, and frankly flat-out awe-inspiring.
“The Only-ness Statement,” an article by Dan Mall
A useful design strategy exercise from Marty Neumeier.
Design Doesn’t Care What You Think Information Looks Like | Rob Weychert
A terrific piece by Rob that is simultaneously a case study of Pro Publica work and a concrete reminder of the power of separating structure and presentation (something that I worry developers don’t appreciate enough).
Don’t get stuck on what different types of information are “supposed” to look like. They can take whatever shape you need them to.
The Law of Least Power and Defunct StackOverflow Answers - Web Directions
I love John’s long-zoom look at web development. Step back far enough and you can start to see the cycles repeating.
Underneath all of these patterns and practices and frameworks and libraries are core technologies. And underlying principles.
These are foundations – technological, and of practice – that we ignore, overlook, or flaunt at our peril.
Jon Aizlewood | Design systems don’t start with components
Jon’s worried that thinking about components first might damage the big picture.
One doesn’t create a design system starting with a loose collection of parts before creating the whole.
Won’t somebody think of the parents!?
Without creative direction, a design system becomes a group of disconnected elements existing alongside one another.
Movies with Mikey
I know it’s just a landing page for YouTube channel of movie reviews but I really like the art direction and responsiveness of this.
Tantek Çelik - The once and future IndieWeb - YouTube
Tantek’s great talk on the Indie Web from Web Directions Code in Melbourne earlier this year.
Layout in Flipboard for Web and Windows — Flipboard Engineering
A fascinating look at how Flipboard combines art direction and algorithms to generate layouts.
which way?
A collection of directional signage & wayfinding artifacts, well-executed or otherwise.
This, That and the Other Thing | the human network
Mark Pesce's closing keynote from Web Directions South 2008. Great stuff, as always.
Web Directions: East 08
I'm going to Japan in November to talk about Ajax. I am very excited about this.
The Man in Blue > Experiments > Left Right
Contribute to Cameron's experiment. Just choose: left or right?
Web Directions North » Blog Archive » Web Directions North open for business
Registration is now open for Web Directions North in Vancouver in February. Come for the geeky presentations, stay for the skiing.
Web Directions North | February 6 - 10, 2007
I'm going to Vancouver in February. w00t! This conference looks like it's going to kick arse.