ux design - Grant Winney

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Dec 23, 2019

Being aware of how sites reel you in... and hook you 🎣

I think most of us have a general sense of uneasiness with the firm grasp the most popular sites on the Internet have on us, but it's no mistake in design that they're popular... or that the cause of uneasiness is also the salve....

gui ux design retro archival

Sep 10, 2019

From text-driven s(hell) to mouse-driven marvel

For posterity, here's a nearly 25 year old article about how Merrill Lynch went from a gargantuan text-driven app to something that wasn't (as they put it) a "usability nightmare". It's an interesting read if you're in the field, and some of their design choices are still employed in desktop apps....

Experience gets you far, but good tools and services keep you moving in the right direction. Here are some of my favorites:

DigitalOcean is a versatile, affordable cloud provider. You can serve up a blog (like this one!), deploy a wiki, try out ansible, or do something much bigger. They host the annual Hacktoberfest too.

Backblaze offers an affordable, unlimited, set-and-forget backup service. They saved me from the click of death a couple years ago, and I've been a grateful customer ever since.