There used to be a Sidebar webring of which I was a proud member. Also the only webring I've seen in a thousand years, but I'm all in favor of bringing them back!
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Sidebar is back!
In case you forgot about Sidebar: it's that blog that links to five articles about design, making websites and quirky stuff per workday. The best thing: most comes from independent bloggers, so there's lots of honest opinions and real, hands-on advice. Fabricio Teixeira from UX Collective has taken over the site, and it looks like he's doing a great job!
https://sidebar.io
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Not a new post, but still very relevant! It's getting some buzz lately: Why is open source software so badly designed?
https://www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/why-is-free-open-source-software-badly-designed
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Looks like I can no longer copy my own Figma files? I understand that using version history and libraries and whatnot is better most of the time, but please let me just handle my files like I'm a professional who knows what they're doing, okay?
[#]design #figma
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2/2
Avoiding tricks is a good way to learn, but it doesn't mean you should never apply them. Until you can apply your skills effortlessly, you can at least make it look so.
So: practice without correction fluid and pencil sketches, rulers, compass and whatnot. But then when you produce something for real, use all the tricks to get there.
[#]creativity #creative #skill
https://www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/get-good-at-anything-creative
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Cheat
At school, I was taught that using correction fluid in drawings looks bad. So I believed professional artists flawlessly ink complete comic pages. Then I found out that they're called comic strips because they're made one strip at a time. And that the originals are often created from multiple drawings cut and pasted together. And before everything was done digitally: filled with lots of correction fluid. 1/2
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[#]Creativity is often seen as a gift, something that canβt be taught or developed. But creative people know that, in reality, it takes much more than a spark of inspiration to create something great. It requires skills that are developed over time through persistent practice. But what exactly does it mean to develop skills? How can you move beyond the basics and avoid getting stuck?
https://www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/get-good-at-anything-creative
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I just discovered the 'Oldest first' sorting in Pocket. Turns out I'm 9 years and 11 months behind on reading my 'save for later' articles π«
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The most surprising thing I learned this year? Kiwi skin actually tastes fine!
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Immediate favorite use case: image captions (left aligned) that have a separate box for photographer credits (right-aligned). Ideally both are on the same line, with space in between. But when the caption is longer, the credits should appear below it, without spacing. π©βπ³π€π
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I never realized that in #CSS flex layouts you can define column-gap and row-gap separately. The normal gap was already super useful! But this is so nice.
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I just published a new blog post!
[#]design #skill #craft #creativity #learning
https://www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/get-good-at-anything-creative
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Yeah sure, if I sign up, the interruptions will stop and you will definitely not e-mail me about the next thing you want me to do.
[#]ui #design #productmanagement #pm
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Of all iOS improvements of the last years, the integration of focus modes is my absolute favorite. It was a ridiculous amount of work to set up (took me like 30 minutes), but ever since it's like my phone just knows what I want to do with it. And what I don't want to be disturbed with. If you have any social media or news app on your phone, I bet you'll get those 30 minutes back within a week.
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I think I will actually continue with modern CSS and use :where(). With websites it's pretty easy to add fallbacks to new code features, but in this case, the fallback could be noticeably inferior. But there will be a working fallback and using modern CSS will save me lots of time.
What would you do?
[#]css #webdev #sustainability
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Of last week's visitors, about 99% of visitors have a browser that supports :where(). By the time the project is done, it should be close to 99,9%.
And all people involved in conversions to newsletter signup and donations had a modern enough browser!
So I should have no business reason to even consider this a second longer. Except that our business is sustainability.
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You're making me buy a new phone! One of my most read blog posts ever is me showing how software developers push users towards buying a new phone. Because they make app and website updates that don't support older systems.
Now I'm one of those developers having to make a choice ... Should I use a relatively new CSS feature in the rewrite of our website?
https://www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/you-are-making-me-buy-a-new-phone
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It's a shame I'm not employed by Google, because every time I do a remote user testing session, I discover new usability issues with Google Meet.
[#]usertesting #usability #googlemeet #teams
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I could moonlight at, because when the screen sharing didn't work, this participant tried to get me into a Teams call but couldn't figure out how to do it without setting it up via the calendar.
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Now a simple link doesn't really invite listening. I want something that clearly shows "click here to listen". But a play button would be misleading, as we'd need to link to another page first. That other website could be of the podcast's, it could Spotify, and it could also link in-app to podcatchers like Overcast. A side quest here is that we somehow have to offer endless podcatcher apps without overwhelming the user, who's probably using only one of them (Spotify or YouTube ...).
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