Web Design: DOMsayer

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Stand at Attention

Design/UX/product

Optical effects in user interfaces for the true nerds among us [medium.muz.li].

How to design for human attention [uxplanet].

How button design has evolved in eight years [toptal].

Google’s Material Design awards for 2017 [design.google]. Some very good examples here.

In Depth [elischiff] is a new podcast on design and technology hosted by Eli Schiff and Mike Rundle.

Face the Music

News/business

Introducing: Minimal Viable Structure [medium/enspiral-tales], a framework for managing people in crisis mode.

Mentor List [mentorlist.herokuapp] connects you to a mentor in your field.

Chrome will block autoplaying videos by default in January [arstechnica].

Thanks to some patent issues with React, WordPress won’t use it for its current Gutenberg project, opting instead for a rewrite with a different library [ma.tt].

How Silicon Valley woke up to politics in the age of President Trump [story.californiasunday].

Huh, looks like there’s an AI arms race, it’ll probably cause World War 3 [vox].

Apple’s Craig Federeghi gives so much detail about Face ID in this interview [techcrunch].

Idaho’s trying to set up the United States’ first dark sky reserve [idahostatesman]. Every time I go on a trip a rural or remote area, I always spend the majority of every night staring into the sky, looking at the now-very-visible stars, like the massive dork I am.

Cassin’ Me By

Everything else

Facebook’s introducing the ability to snooze posts from your friends, hiding them from your feed for up to a month [techcrunch]. Looks like the relationships you maintain via Facebook are about to get a whole lot more empty easy to handle!

Netflix France got the Narcos actors to threaten to shoot people who pirate the show [motherboard.vice].

When Netflix isn’t paying actors to threaten people, the company is killing the title sequence [avclub]. For me the title sequences power rankings are: 5. The Sopranos, 4. The Simpsons, 3. American Gods (bit of a new one!) 2. Saved by the Bell, and 1. Home Improvement. Yours please!

If you’re ever stuck for someone to play I Spy with (who isn’t!?), this site leverages the awesome power of Google’s Cloud Vision API to… play I Spy with you [aispy].

A street view of 1980s New York [80s.nyc].

Finally, 100 photos from Cassini’s 20-year mission to Saturn [nytimes]. Goodnight, sweet prince.

There's Versioning for Monday. I'll be back tomorrow with a few more links for you, or at least more ideas for shows that have decent title sequences. I forgot about Law and Order! Inexcusable. Anyway, I have a sudden interest in watching Narcos or any Netflix content, so I'll do that now - legally, of course. Just please, please leave me be! Back tomorrow, I hope!