Noted, November 2023
Collected bits and pieces I’ve noticed this month.
In “Improving The Double Diamond Design Process” Andy Budd writes about how the “Double Diamond” design process is an ideal that does not match how design actually happens in many (most?) organisations and how it could be improved to be more usable and useful in reality.
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Interaction design is two things.
- managing attention
- persuasion
Once you come to the realization/acceptance that no one – not even the interested, motivated, and committed – has the kind of focused attention available for your thing that you assume they have, you will have a much better chance of capturing and sustaining any of it at all.
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In “Why note-taking apps don’t make us smarter”, which is well worth a read if you care about thinking and note-taking and note-taking for better thinking, Casey Newton links to researcher Andy Matuschak’s site on note taking. Wow. I got lost in there, in a good way, for quite some time and still keep it open in a tab.
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On a related note, ahem, I love how Readwise is approaching highlights and sidenotes in their Readwise Reader reading app.
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Good career advice from Julia Evans: Get your work recognized: write a brag document
via kottke.org
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On good line length based on research: “Line length revisited: following the research” by Mary Dyson