Wygle Wide Web

A quiet field journal of digital archaeology. Reconstructing a life from 25+ years of digital traces, with occasional help from ChatGPT when things get weird or surprising.

Tag: design

  • Dear Company or Person That @Replies Me…

    I might be in the minority here, but if you reply to something I said on Twitter because it triggered a key word search you’ve got going, chances are I’m not going to look at your product. So, what will make me look at your product? If it’s awesome and one of my friends uses…

  • sneak: David Desandro constructed a typeface called Curtis entirely out of CSS. It’s an interesting process, reminiscent somewhat of Fontstruct but entirely manual. Using the ‘Inspect’ view he provides, you can see the building blocks he used to create them. Really great stuff. (Via coffeemakescreative) Man, I’m just no where near nerdy enough for this.

  • marco: One of the problems with pageview billing is that it incentivizes publishers to distract you while reading. Every time they distract you and get you to click on something else, they make money. But if you’re simply reading their content, they make less. So they take every possible opportunity to try to get you…

  • Take the well-known example of the Toyota Prius. This hybrid car was not the result of user-centered innovation. Toyota started to design the Prius in 1994, when user-centered analysis and market data were pulling auto manufacturers in a different direction: toward heavy, gas-guzzling SUVs. The Prius was a proposal — a vision that came from…

  • When a marketer presents us with a timely and valuable product or service we can really use we don’t think of it as marketing because we’re too busy enjoying the fruits of their labor. Similarly, the good work of UX professionals often goes unnoticed: great design is invisible to users because they’re too busy enjoying…

  • For too long, the act of printing something in and of itself has been placed on too high a pedestal. The true value of an object lies in what it says, not its mere existence. And in the case of a book, that value is intrinsically connected with content… …Of the books we do print…

  • “What if instead of adding new features, a company concentrated on making the service or product much easier to use? Or making it much easier to access the advanced features it already has, but that few can master? Maybe what they lose in market share in one area will be more than compensated for in…

  • Eating in the dining room is the best…eating in the bathroom is…not such a good experience. 52 Weeks of UX Source: 52weeksofux.com