April 4, 2023 “Click-to-cancel” rule would penalize companies that make you cancel by phone “…the proposal also “would address new business tactics, like digital dark patterns—where firms deploy hard-to-see buttons, hidden pop-ups, or misleading links to manipulate consumers away from canceling their subscription.”
April 4, 2023 A Eulogy for Dark Sky, a Data Visualization Masterpiece “The design of the Dark Sky mobile application represented a hallmark of information design because the team clearly obsessed over how people would actually use the app on a daily basis.”
March 28, 2023 Cheating is All You Need “There is something legendary and historic happening in software engineering, right now as we speak, and yet most of you don’t realize at all how big it is.”
March 21, 2023 GitHub – Financial-Times/chart-doctor: Sample files to accompany the FT’s Chart Doctor column “A poster… to assist designers and journalists to select the optimal symbology for data visualisations.”
March 17, 2023 futuretodayinstitute.com I ended up skipping SXSW Interactive 2023 this year, but was able to virtually experience a small taste of the conference via Amy Webb’s wonderful annual Tech Trends report. Always illuminating! PDF link:
March 6, 2023 Why Does It Feel Like Amazon Is Making Itself Worse? “If you understand Amazon as an aspiring megascale infrastructure company — a provider of systems, services, capacity, and labor — its junkification makes sense.”
February 21, 2023 Opinion | Lina Khan: Noncompetes Depress Wages and Kill Innovation “Today, experts estimate that one out of every five American workers, or about 30 million people, is bound by a noncompete.”
February 17, 2023 Cistercian Numerals “What this does… better than the roman or Arabic numeral systems… is to represent both small and large numbers (1 up to 9999) in a single glyph.”
February 14, 2023 Sizing typography in design systems “Take the smallest body copy the design allows and type the first four words of Lorem ipsum… on a single line. That is the minimum space constant for column pairs. — The Rule of LIDS.”
February 10, 2023 Ticketmaster To Require Purchase Of Round-Trip Concert Tickets For Exiting Venue After Show “…customers who wanted to be among the first to leave a concert should expect to pay a higher fee.”