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Original Mac calculator design came from letting Steve Jobs play with menus for 10 minutes
In 1982, a young Mac developer turned Jobs into a UI designer—and accidentally invented a new technique.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/original-mac-calculators-design-came-from-letting-steve-jobs-play-with-sliders-for-ten-minutes/
Why Most UX Portfolios Fail to Impress Stakeholders (and How to Fix It) https://uxplanet.org/why-most-ux-portfolios-fail-to-impress-stakeholders-and-how-to-fix-it-1443d3a990e2
Why I don’t test different designs at the same time
https://adamsilver.io/blog/why-i-dont-test-different-designs-at-the-same-time/
Collaboration sucks
Imagine you are driving a car. It’s often useful to have someone give you directions, point out gas stations, and recommend stops for snacks. This is a helpful amount of collaboration.
https://newsletter.posthog.com/p/collaboration-sucks
Architectural debt is not just technical debt
While I agree that implementing software patterns like the strangler pattern or moving away from singletons is definitely software architecture. Architectural debt goes way beyond what you find in the code.
https://frederickvanbrabant.com/blog/2025-10-31-architectural-debt-is-not-just-technical-debt/
Design From the Margins
Centering the most marginalized and impacted in design processes - from ideation to production
https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/design-margins
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