Niklaus Gerber - Issue #19
Dear readers
There will be a short break after this newsletter. I promise you guys that you will receive the next one on the 20th of August.
I will use this time to go through my archives and dig up some great stuff.
Wishing you a happy summer time.
Kind regards
Niklaus
editors pick
Is Donald Trump So Popular Because of How He Talks? A Linguistics Explainer
Donald Trump’s fourth grade level of speech could be manipulating your unconscious.
Sans Francisco
A collection of tools to help designers craft delightful experiences.
Brexit: How design made the difference
A month on from the vote that changed everything – and nothing – Rob Coke analyses the role of design in winning the argument for Leave.
highly recommended
Great Products Don’t Happen By Accident
Using playbooks for designing and building products
The Future of Design (and how to prepare for it)
A handy guide to navigating what’s coming up next in the design world.
The Motherboard e-Glossary of Cyber Terms and Hacking Lingo
One of the challenges of writing—and reading—about hacking is that it’s a world full of jargon and technical terms. It’s our job as journalists to translate this lingo and make it understandable to the average reader.
Still, accuracy is important and sometimes you have to use the right terms. To help you navigate our stories during our special week on cybersecurity, The Hacks We Can’t See, (and our future and continued coverage of hacking) we thought it’d be good to have a little glossary.
Building Personas at Optimizely
One of Optimizely’s core values is customer empathy. We strive to understand our customers as deeply as possible so that we can build products that are essential to them.
Least Creative Thing Of The Day: Zara Rips Off Indie Designer Tuesday Bassen's Work
The fashion retailer replied to her lawyer to say that the “handful of complaints” meant nothing compared to the millions who shop at Zara.
16 Wild Research Experiments That Could Change Design
Siggraph—the year’s biggest conference on graphics, UI, and UX research—is going on now. Here’s a look at the most compelling tech.
astonishing apps
Simple Savr
Simply create and share text and files under same WiFi
See What’s Really Going On In Your Company's Slack With This New Visualization App
Which teams collaborate most, which users are most influential, and what’s your company’s favorite emoji?
inspirational
14 Prototyping Tools & How Each Can Be Used
Everyone is asking: “Which prototyping tool is the best?” That’s the wrong question.
Graphical User Interface as a Reflection of the Real World: Shadows and Elevation
UI design is moving towards removing any unnecessary elements to focus much more on functionality. But while functional aspect of a design is key to product success, visual details are equally important — particularly how they can improve those functional elements.
The Apple Goes Mushy Part I
OS X’s Interface Decline (Introduction)