Jan 24

In between

This was originally posted on my own site. I was chatting with my new colleague Alex yesterday about a link she had shared in Slack. It was the Nielsen Norman Group’s annual State of Mobile User Experience report. There’s nothing too surprising in there, other than the mention of Apple’s…

Native

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Native

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Jan 23

One morning in the future

This was originally posted on my own site. I had video call this morning with someone who was in India. The call went great, except for a few moments when the video stalled. “Sorry about that”, said the person I was talking to. “It’s the monkeys. They like messing with…

Technology

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Technology

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Jan 22

Culture and style

This was originally posted on my own site. Ever get the urge to style a good document? No? Just me, then. Well, the urge came over me recently so I started styling this single-page site: A Few Notes On The Culture by Iain M Banks I’ve followed this document across…

CSS

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CSS

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Jan 19

Three attributes for better web forms

This was originally posted on my own site. Forms on the web are an opportunity to make big improvements to the user experience with very little effort. The effort can be as little as sprinkling in a smattering of humble HTML attributes. But the result can be a turbo-charged experience…

HTML

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HTML

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Jan 17

Chain of tools

This was originally posted on my own site. I shared this link in Slack with my co-workers today: Cultivating depth and stillness in research by Andy Matuschak. I wasn’t sure whether it belonged in the #research or the #design channel. While it’s ostensibly about research, I think it applies to…

Tools

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Tools

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Jan 16

Mars distracts

This was originally posted on my own site. A few years ago, I wrote about how much I enjoyed the book Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson. Not everyone liked that book. A lot of people were put off by its structure, in which the dream of interstellar colonisation meets the…

Mars

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Mars

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Jan 11

Five websites

This was originally posted on my own site. Some lovely people have recently made some lovely websites. Dan has launched his type foundry, Simple Type Co. and it’s gorgeous! For as long as I’ve been making websites, Dan’s designs have been an inspiration: Corkd, Dribbble, his own website; whenever he…

Websites

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Websites

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Jan 10

Blood

This was originally posted on my own site. I gave blood yesterday. It was my sixteenth donation. Yes, that’s a humblebrag. I feel like the gamification of blood donation is entirely reasonable. Levelling up in blood donation feels like the opposite of frequent flyer points. Instead of a growing sense…

Blood

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Blood

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Jan 2

2022

This was originally posted on my own site. This time last year when I was looking back on 2021, I wrote: 2020 was the year of the virus. 2021 was the year of the vaccine …and the virus, obviously, but still it felt like the year we fought back. With…

2022

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2022

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Dec 31, 2022

2022 in numbers

This was originally posted on my own site. I posted 1057 times on adactio in 2022. sparkline That’s a bit more than in 2021. November was the busiest month with 137 posts. sparkline February was the quietest with 65 posts. sparkline I blogged 91 times during the year. sparkline I…

2022

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2022

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