Chronologically

1. The Art of Storytelling

   Julie Zhuo talks of the power of story telling, timing and understanding people.

2. Small Team Lean UX Advice From The userexperiencedesign.slack.com Community

   Preserving some sound advice from the userexperiencedesign.slack.com community on small team Lean UX in a mature company with little/no previous user research.

3. Unicorns don’t exist. Generalists do.

   Emmet Connolly from Intercom explains the merits of generalist and specialist designers and who and when to add to your team.

4. The User’s Journey

   Donna Lichaw describes the process of story mapping to discover the “why” of user behaviour and validate design hypothesis.

5. Five reasons why design sprints are the best way to kick off a new product initiative

   Joshua Porter explains the value of research, divergent and convergent design, prototyping and usability testing over an intensive five day design sprint.

6. UX Camp Brighton 2016

   Notes from UX Camp Brighton 2016 sessions

7. 8 common dysfunctions of design teams—and what to do about them

   John Zeratsky highlights common dysfunctional practices within design teams and how to go about changing the team culture to build better products.

8. What is User Experience?

   After some self-reflection this week, I’ve tried to come up with my own answer to the question “What is User Experience?”

9. Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS

   After battling for roughly two hours with z-index on a responsive navigation layout this list of CSSWG mistakes makes me feel slightly better.

10. Color vs. Contrast

    Piotr Koczorowski explains effectiveness of contrasts in UI design.