A walkthrough of our design system and how we got here | Kyan
It all started at Patterns Day…
(Note: you’ll probably need to use Reader mode to avoid taxing your eyes reading this—the colour contrast …doesn’t.)
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A Tale of Two Clocks
Doomsday vs. the Long Now.
The Patterns Day Edition | Amy Hupe, content designer.
Amy’s talk at Patterns Day was absolutely brilliant! Here’s an account of the day from her perspective.
The evident care Jeremy put into assembling the lineup meant an incredible mix of talks, covering the big picture stuff right down to the nitty gritty, and plenty in between.
Her observation about pre-talk nerves is spot-on:
I say all of this because it’s important for me and I think anyone who suffers with anxiety about public speaking, or in general, to recognise that having a sense of impending doom doesn’t mean that doom is actually impending.
Patterns Day
Here’s a nice little round-up of Friday’s Patterns Day.
Weeknotes #16 | Trys Mudford
Just look at these fantastic pictures that Trys took (very unobstrusively) at Patterns Day—so rock’n’roll!
Patterns Day notes
Stuart took copious notes during every single talk at Patterns Day—what a star!
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.
Public Sans
A free and open source neutral sans-serif typeface, released as part of version two of the design system for the US federal government.
We are Oxvik
Ooh, this is an exciting collaboration! Jon and Brian have teamed up to form a lovely little cooperative.
The Eponymous Laws of Tech - daverupert.com
Dave has curated a handy list of eponymous laws.
Doctype Brighton
A new webby meet-up in Brighton organised by Davs Howard. It’ll be one the first Thursday of the month at The Joker. I often find myself in The Joker on Thursday nights anyway (for the wings) so I’ll be heading along to the inaugural event on February 1st.
Patterns Day 2017: Paul Lloyd on Vimeo
Paul pulls no punches in this rousing talk from Patterns Day.
The transcript is on his site.
Patterns Day 2017: Alice Bartlett on Vimeo
At Patterns Day, Alice shared what she has learned from shepherding the Origami project within the Financial Times.
Patterns Day 2017: Jina Anne on Vimeo
Jina invented an entirely new genre for her Patterns Day talk—autobiographical fantasy.
Testing the accessibility of pattern libraries
Riffing on Rachel’s talk at Patterns Day:
At the Patterns Day conference last month, Rachel Andrew mentioned something interesting about patterns. She said that working with reusable interface components, where each one has its own page, made her realise that those work quite well as isolated test cases. I feel this also goes for some accessibility tests: there is a number of criteria where isolation aids testing.
Hidde specifically singles out these patterns:
- Collapsible (“Show/hide”)
- Form field
- Video player
Patterns Day 2017: Rachel Andrew on Vimeo
Rachel’s fantastic talk from Patterns Day. There’s a lot of love for Fractal specifically, but there are also some great points about keeping a pattern library in sync with a live site, and treating individual components as reduced test-cases.
Patterns Day 2017: Sareh Heidari on Vimeo
Time for another video from Patterns Day. Here’s Sareh Heidari walking us through Grandstand, the CSS framework at the BBC.
Patterns Day 2017: Ellen De Vries on Vimeo
The latest video from Patterns Day is up—Ellen’s superb philosophical presentation: Patterns in Language, Language in Patterns.
There’s so much packed into this one, it might take more than one viewing to take it all in.
Patterns Day 2017: Laura Elizabeth on Vimeo
The videos are coming! The videos are coming!
Here’s the first one: Laura Elizabeth opening the show at Patterns Day.