Tag: Design

Fantastic post detailing Shopify’s work optimizing their admin pages. There are some good pointers around profiling and optimizing React, as well as a lot of thoughtful insights on designing in-between states.

I don’t spend much time in Sketch myself, but this seems like a really clever way of mirroring Brad’s Atomic Design inside Sketch files.

Even in my tiny design practice, every decision I make is shaped by my biases; every decision I make is capable of harm. And it’s so, so easy to forget this: to focus on the layout challenge in front of me, to fulfil the client’s latest request, or to meet a business goal. When I do these things, I occasionally forget to ask myself who’ll be impacted by my work and, most importantly, to ask how I can mitigate that harm.

Fantastic breakdown about the different “zones of death” in the browser. It really hammers home the importance, and difficulty, of designing for security.

I really like the idea behind SimplySecure—focusing on making security more intuitive and usable. There’s a long history of usability and security being at odds and they’re doing some good work to try and fix that.

This discussion with them about how designers can improve the state of security and privacy online is well worth a read.

Run from data-driven companies. In thrall to semi-science and blinded by their dogma, they’ve lost the ability to see intelligent alternative perspectives on their business, their products, and the world. Embrace instead data-informed companies. This isn’t mere grammatical pedantry — a company genuinely informed by data understands the risks of datafication and adopts sophisticated, balanced approaches to strategy that blend quant, qual, and even some of that unfashionable prediction and intuition.