Collecting

1. First day, first commute.

   My first day back into the Clearleft office was made all the more easier with an almost-off-road commute through the South Downs. Splendid!

2. Introducing Eleventy to an eleven-year-old

   Spent a couple of hours blowing the mind of an eleven-year-old with Eleventy layout and partial includes. Lots of ear-to-ear grins and excited squeaks. Kudos to @andy@bell.bz for making his Eleventy From Scratch resource available for free. Granted it’s a few years old but has explained the few concepts I need really well. Looking forward to porting my own site to Eleventy over the Christmas break.

3. Goodbye engagement vanity metrics

   One thing I’m really enjoying about the Mastodon reading experience is the concealment of a post’s engagement vanity metrics. With the number of Boosts, Favourites, Bookmarks and to some degree replies all hidden at the feed level, I find I focus more on the content.

4. Teaching how to fish

   I spent some of yesterday afternoon teaching my son some very basic principles of HTML and CSS. The delight on his face when he figured out where he was going wrong and fixed a few bugs by himself.

5. How to embrace inclusivity in UX research

   Kelly Erickson gives some useful tips on how to make our research more inclusive.

6. Recipeasly promised to ‘fix’ online recipes. After critics called it theft, the site shut down.

   @timcarman’s very thought provoking article about innovation, copyright, and cultural stories of underrepresented groups.

7. Writing UX Research Objectives — Using S.M.A.R.T. Goals Method

   Edward Beebe-Tron introduces the benefit of setting research objectives using the S.M.A.R.T. goals method.

8. Meet the Robowaiter APIs Serving Us Data

   @mappletons’s beautifully illustrated introduction to APIs.

9. The role of research in Design Systems

   A decent overview of design systems with a slight hintof how research could play it’s part.

10. New book! Dr. Smartphone: An Ethnography of Mobile Phone Repair Shops.

    An absolutely fascinating look at the the culture of mobile phone repair shops. I want this book!