Design and Engineering, As One · Matthias Ott
A thoughtful piece by Matthias that’s a must-read for both designers and developers.
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Full Stack Service Design – Sarah Drummond
Katie shared this (very good) piece about service design on Slack at work today, and when I got to the bit about different levels, my brain immediately went “pace layers!”
- The Service
- The Infrastructure
- The Organisation
- The Intent
- The Culture
Intentional and Emergent Design Systems | Jordan Moore
This is a really interesting distinction:
An intentional design system. The flavour and framework may vary, but the approach generally consists of: design system first → design/build solutions.
An emergent design system. This approach is much closer to the user needs end of the scale by beginning with creative solutions before deriving patterns and systems (i.e the system emerges from real, coded scenarios).
It’s certainly true that intentional design systems will invariably bake in a number of (unproven?) assumptions.
Good intentions are not enough | silversuit.net
Online discourse:
Wouldn’t it be nice if we had an x-ray that could peer into the true intention behind words on a screen? Sadly we don’t have that x-ray yet (for most of humanity’s existence, we had body language to enrich our words and enhance understanding, but we live in interesting times where so much, perhaps even the majority, of our communication lacks body language) and so we have to be mindful of how our words might be perceived, and what the ramifications of publishing them might be. That’s not to say we should hold off completely, but it does mean we should be mindful if we’re to be most effective.
What happened to Web Intents? - Tales of a Developer Advocate
Paul Kinlan writes an honest post-mortem of his push for Web Intents.
There are some valuable lessons here, particularly for the indie web’s web actions.
An introduction to Web Intents – an interview with Glenn Jones
Harry interviews Glenn about web intents (web actions). Glenn gives a good clear explanation of what they are.
Web Intents - Design Push
This looks like it’s going to be a great event on February 25th right here in Brighton: a gathering of minds to brainstorm around web intents. Get there if you can.
Choosing the Right Words – Web Intents — Glenn Jones
Glenn has written up the discussion that followed his UXCampBrighton talk on web actions.
Web Actions: Identifying A New Building Block For The Web - Tantek
Tantek’s braindump of research he and Erin have been doing on web actions—verbs for the web, specifically interactions across sites: sharing, liking, and so on. I agree with him that this terminology feels better than “web intents.”
Button Sluts and Web Actions
Erin documents the next step after web intents.
Chromium Blog: Connecting Web Apps with Web Intents
A quick overview and explanation of web intents.