Curaçao, 12WY & UX Design reads - 2 Jan 2020
Back in Town...
It's strange and wonderful to be sitting at my old desk in Curaçao, doing an end of 'period' review and planning for the next one, surrounded by familiar stuff and unfamiliar faces. I'm loving having books up in the shelves and want to make sure we have a little library at the new Brave space... if they weren't so heavy I'd be packing a bunch of these to bring back for specific people. Ho hum.
More than you need to know about my goal-setting system
Just finished up the review of my first full 12 weeks using the 12WY system. My document in Excel with all the details is now here, and all the 12WY material I've downloaded and created is in this folder, including the new planning document I'm using for the next 12 weeks - which I'm not actually starting until January 6th, because it would be silly to think this week is a normal week. (Although, stupid me, we're at a beach resort on the 6th and 7th so... the 8th is more like it.)
UX Design Reading
Followed some links in my Inbox and had fun reading some design stuff this morning. A couple of quotes from this article had me nodding, some have me curious, and some had me thinking 'oh fuck':
Assume people will make mistakes. Anticipate what they will be and try to prevent them.
If the results of an error are severe then use a confirmation before acting on the user's action.
Make it easy to "undo."
People will always try to use technology to be social.
The mental model that people have about a particular task may make it easy or hard to use an interface that you have designed.
(I also enjoyed this dashboard design article and this piece on bottom bar navigation.)
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