A short roundup of good things we’ve read/watched/listened to in the last 7 days. Sometimes about UX, sometimes not. All things you can learn from.

1. Can you imagine a year without using the internet?
2. The art of laser-cutting paper. Eric Standley is amazing!
3. Powwowapp: Scheduling user research. – interesting app.
4. Want to buy cigarettes? Not from these machines.
5. Ahhhhhh – Craft Beerds. Wait, what?
6. Here is a great series that goes along with our last meetup on “Becoming UX” – Beginner’s guide to UX. This is a 5 part series.

A short roundup of good things we’ve read/watched/listened to in the last 7 days. Sometimes about UX, sometimes not. All things you can learn from.

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Mercury – a beautifully designed, simple weather app.

Image Blender – faux double exposures, right on your iPhone.

NO MORE BULLSHIT The League of Movable Type –> open source typography

Lean UX is Dead. Long Live Lean UX. Lean UX isn’t about a new way to just make stuff and avoid deliverables.

Six Things User Experience Designers Forget When They Criticize Websites. We’ve all been there.

“Over the years, we’ve become the virtual equivalent of hoarders, tacking on content and features without stopping to clean house.” For a Future-Friendly Web

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Jer Thorp’s Ted Talk – Make Data More Human.

Incredibox – the greatest time waster ever!

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HVAC and hidden tubs at The White House – 99% Invisible’s The Bathtubs or the Boiler Room

User research and accessibility concerns of designing taxicabs Hail, Hail! ‘Taxi Of Tomorrow’ Arrives In NYC

Graphic at top by Slava Kirilenko, via Grain Edit

A short roundup of good things we’ve read/watched/listened to in the last 7 days. Sometimes about UX, sometimes not. All things you can learn from.

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Don’t go it alone: collaborative web design – great collaboration inspiration from the dudes at bearded.com

Why I don’t wireframe much

Redefining Hick’s Law – a new stab at Hick’s Law as we move into the responsive design age.

An introduction to Lean – good advice how to deliver in an agile development world.

Technology can push our crazy buttons, rewire brains – am i right?

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Henry Miller, Asleep and Awake. A short documentary that takes place in the author’s bathroom. The pictures he has on the walls are “a gateway to his mind.” (via The Millions) (NSFW)

Stream Being Elmo on Netflix. A tremendous portrait of passion, vision, and dedication.

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Radio producer Jay Allison discusses innovation in this talk. “It sharpens the mind to feel lost and then found.” Invitation: PRPD Benediction

“We err on the side of doing the maximum amount possible.” Alan Lomax’s Massive Archive Goes Online