Johan Lieu, maker of products

Great interview with Jim Barksdale from 2014 that I somehow missed. Barksdale is the man who coined this phrase:

“Gentlemen, there’s only two ways I know of to make money: bundling and unbundling.”

(via How to Succeed in Business by Bundling – and Unbundling)

(via Using Swipe to Trigger Contextual Actions)

While I understand the potential usability issues with swipe-to-do-X, I think at this point you should really know your users and know if they are going to be okay with it or not. No real hard and fast rules with UX, like all things UX.

People remember the bad more than the good. Users’ tendency to identify flaws in designs raises the bar for what they consider acceptable.

Yup.

(via The Negativity Bias in User Experience)

This reads like a description of my personal hell. So glad I got out of there whilst I could.

Your mind briefly drifts off and you think — “is this all really worth it? should I move to Seattle, Austin, or maybe even Florida?” After all there is no state tax and you could live a great quality of life there with an actual house with your beautiful family.

(via This is Your Life in Silicon Valley — Medium)

Summary: Mobile-navigation patterns make navigation unusable on the desktop and decrease the use of this important UI element. Porting an unchanged UI to a different platform hurts UX.

(via Mobile First Is NOT Mobile Only)

Summary: Getting back to the homepage is about 6 times harder when the logo is placed in the center of a page compared to when it’s in the top left corner.

(via Centered Logos Hurt Website Navigation)

As a UX afficianado and someone who loves exporing apps and interations, I love so many things in this article:

1. Mega menus are my jam!
2. Pie menus are awesome on mobile!
3. Marking menu’s should be a standard interaction for expert users everywhere!

So much to love in this article.

Summary: Selecting an option inside a menu depends on how far away that option is from the menu icon. Drop-down menus, megamenus, pie or radial menus, and marking menus arrange items in different patterns to optimize the reach time.

(via Expandable Menus: Pull-Down, Square, or Pie?)

Be cool, man, be cool.

Summary: Websites must establish trust and present themselves as credible to turn visitors into customers. The methods that people use to determine trustworthiness on the web have remained stable throughout the years, even with changing design trends.

(via Trustworthiness in Web Design: 4 Credibility Factors)

…rather than screwing around with bots, I want the tech industry to focus on solving these major annoyances and handling some of the common use cases I described that my phone ought to do better with by now.

(via Dan Grover | Bots won’t replace apps. Better apps will replace apps.)

(via Alex St. John’s daughter responds to his ‘vile’ opinions | Polygon)

Amazing take down by his own daughter about women in tech.

…Yet it has not changed. The San Francisco skyline is not studded with new towers rising up to house the huddled masses. It’s still a pretty little city where only lucky rich people who got there a long time ago (or just plain new rich people) can afford to live.

Yup.

(via San Francisco: Build More Housing, Assholes)