Collecting amazing and interesting things on the web.
September 24, 2013
design / mobile / performance
Spinners cause users to focus on the fact that content is missing – that they are waiting for something. One example Luke gives of fixing this is Google’s search app which pulls in webpages from the side, “making it feel like content is loading immediately.”
September 24, 2013
design / forms / mobile / usability
During our recent M-Commerce Usability study we observed subjects struggle with inputs that were split across multiple fields, such as a phone number divided into three fields (area code, central office code, and subscriber number). While the intention is good, these fields proved difficult for the subjects to both understand and interact with on a mobile device.
September 24, 2013
branding / business / design / graphic design
“Your brand is what you stand for. Branding is more about content than shape. It is who you are, not how you look. The shape should represent your inside, your content. Your brand architecture is your information architecture.”
September 17, 2013
adaptive path / design / design research
The sketchboard is a low-fi technique that makes it possible for designers to explore and evaluate a range of interaction concepts while involving both business and technology partners. Unlike the process that results from wireframe-based design, the sketchboard quickly performs iterations on many possible solutions and then singles out the best user experience to document and build upon.
September 17, 2013
activism / economic activism / education / rachel held evans
“…Nicole, who is the president and founder of The Expectations Project, a national organization that mobilizes people of faith to support public education reform and close the academic achievement gap. Spurred by this experience and many others from her career in education, Nicole recently released a book entitled Educating All God’s Children: What Christians Can—and Should—Do to Improve Public Education for Low-Income Kids .
I found Educating All God’s Children both informative and challenging, and I wanted to introduce you to this true woman of valor. So today I’m thrilled to share a conversation with Nicole Baker Fulgham about Christians and the important issue of education inequity.”
September 17, 2013
mark-scandrette / spirituality
It’s never too late (or too soon) to think about who you are and to reflect on the good dreams that are deep inside of you. We find it helpful to spend some time considering these questions at least once a year. Take fifteen minutes to respond to the following questions. You probably won’t have to think that hard about these questions because what’s most important to you is probably on the tip of your tongue. For each question write down the one or two things that come immediately to mind.
September 17, 2013
bible / brian mclaren / theology
That’s one reason I try to avoid the term ‘progressive revelation.’ The idea of a linear or quasi-linear evolutionary process needs to be replaced with a more dialectic process, where there are two main lines of thought from near the beginning…
September 13, 2013
“It’s that when you wait to have sex, you are creating an important connection between the very powerful urges to do things that feel really good and the ability to control those urges. Otherwise known as self-control. This practice of self-denial and delayed gratification makes you a healthier, more poised, and better moderated person (who definitely still has a penis, phew!). Ultimately, self- control is a character trait ~or ahem, fruit of the spirit, for the Christian folk~ that will help you be a better long-term partner in your ‘til-death-do-we-part relationship.”
September 13, 2013
It took me a lot of years and a lot of conversations with God (and with people who know more about God than me) to understand that everything I believed about my own sexuality was built on two huge lies.
The first comes from our culture, and it tells us that sex outside of marriage isn’t a big deal.
The second is from the Church, and it tells us that sex outside of marriage is the biggest deal of all the deals ever.
September 12, 2013
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There is absolutely no right amount of — or rigid process for — research except what’s right given one’s goals and resources at a particular time. Someone can take two days, two weeks, or even two years depending on the scope of work and how much is both possible and useful to learn in advance.
The key is to be honest about how much we really know.
We need to identify our most critical assumptions, and then decide how to validate them. For example, a common assumption is that the organization — given its structure and business model — is capable of delivering the service the entrepreneur envisions.