Reading List
A (usually) weekly round-up of interesting links I’ve tweeted. Sponsored by Smashing Magazine who slip banknotes into my underwear so I can spend time reading stuff.
- The ROI of UX – “showing custom error messages increased conversions by 0.5% which equated to more than £250,000 in yearly revenue” (quotation from “Form Design Patterns” by Adam Silver).
- Free live transcripts – website listens to you and transcribes in real time. Uses Chrome-only experimental Web Speech Recognition API. Did pretty well on my Brit accent.
- A Very Informal Look at Gutenberg Accessibility – “my clients…asked to switch…Drupal …to WordPress because of WP’s UI advantages. …updates to the upcoming WP 5.0 release, specifically the new Gutenberg editor, appears to be undoing these advantages.”
- … and Some Gutenberg Accessibility Clarifications by Joe Dolson, a member of the team.
- CSS Grid Posters – “An exploration into the world of possibilities with CSS grid.
- modalzmodalzmodalz – “We use too many damn modals”, with lots of suggestions for better UX patterns
- Building a video editor on the web. Part 0. – “I am going to start the long process of working out what is and isn’t available on the platform and seeing how far we can get today” by Paul Kinlan
- MeasureOSS – a “contributor relationship management system”, to help you see how engaged contributors are in your public project on GitHub, by @sil et al
- Designing for Cognitive Differences
- The state of fieldset interoperability – The state of fieldset interoperability
- How important are mobile broadband networks for global economic development? – “on average, a 10% increase in the mobile broadband adoption ratio causes a 0.6–2.8% increase in economic growth”
- WebKit Feature Focus for 2018-2019 – “200 features planned”
- Google unshackles Android-device firms – Manufacturers are not required to ship Chrome and Search if they pre-install YouTube, Maps etc. Good for ecosystem. Thanks, EU! I really hope Mozilla can do some OEM deal to get Firefox pre-installed on some Android devices rather than Chrome. We really need more browser diversity.