Initiator Creator - Issue #145 - ( Read in browser )

By Saurabh Y. // 23 Nov 2024

This Week's Notes:
Content-rich designs looks more convincing

I just love how Basecamp's landing page looks and feel. Looks more like a blog post than a conventional landing page that we all are used to seeing. But nowadays I started seeing more such designs popping up. like "Noto time" or "letsjelly" website. All of them feel more convincing than the traditional sectional-style landing pages. Informative, easy to read and scan, safe and compelling.

Developer

Mathematical Thinking Isn’t What You Think It Is - Quanta Magazine

The mathematician David Bessis claims that everyone is capable of, and can benefit greatly from, mathematical thinking.

How I ship projects at big tech companies - Sean goedecke

Shipping in a big tech company is a very different skill to writing code, and lots of people who are great at writing code are terrible at shipping.

Meet the guy responsible for building the Call of Duty game engine - StackOverflow

the ins and outs of game engines, and the technical feats involved in creating massively popular games like Call of Duty.

React Scan - Scan for React performance issues and eliminate slow renders in your app - Github

React Scan automatically detects and highlights renders that cause performance issues. This shows you exactly which components you need to fix.

Importing a frontend Javascript library without a build system - Julia Evans

An article on using Javacript libraries on the frontend, and only about how to use them in a no-build-system setup.

Designer

Great products transcend the Usability vs. Utility debate - UX Collective

Your design team is pushing for simplification to make users’ lives easier. Your sales team is advocating for power features to close deals. Your customer success team is demanding both — a clearly impossible feat.

Prototyping the path to Design Engineering - Slack Design

We “prototyped the path” of creating designated design engineering roles by first creating the Design Engineering Champions program.

Alt Text: Don’t Just Describe Images - NN/g

Write alt text that communicates an image's purpose without repeating page content. Focus on meaning rather than visual description.

Customer as competitive advantage - UX Collective

Are we doing the same as our competitors expecting different results?

Entrepreneur

Why Every Company Needs a Futurist-in-Residence - Ideo

For companies looking to the near-term, it’s no longer a-nice-to-have.

Building and taking a horizontal product to market is hard - Equals

We were warned. When it all got too dizzying, we went vertical. And it's working.

Lessons from my First Exit - Michael Lynch

Michael Lynch, founder of TinyPilot, a hardware company, shared what went well, what he want to improve in the future, and what surprised him about selling my business.

Control Your Calendar (Not Your To-Do List) - Nir and Far

Stop measuring productivity by checking cute little boxes. Do this instead.

Tease your customers - Science Says

Making light-hearted fun of your customers makes you feel more human, boosting engagement and connection with your brand by up to 22%.

Marketer

Misguided Apple Intelligence Ads - Tidbits

Apple apparently hasn’t learned much from the criticism it took earlier this year for an ad showing creative works unceremoniously crushed in an industrial press.

13 Black Hat Techniques That Can Harm An SEO Campaign - Search Engine Journal

Exploring the dark side of SEO: Learn about black hat techniques and the shortcuts some practitioners take to outsmart Google.

NorthPoll - Customer Feedback Surveys and Polls that works everywhere - NorthPoll

An online tool to create polls, survey and feedback forms to collect simley reactions and feedback from users to gain insights and improve user experience.

Visprex - Visualise your CSV files in seconds without sending your data anywhere - Github

Your data is processed entirely in your browser without sending your data to any backend servers. The only network calls this application makes are for downloading example datasets from public GCS buckets.

Interesting Read

I hate that I love you: The neuroscience of heartbreak - Mapping ignorance

The adversity intensifies the passion according to a phenomenon called “frustration attraction”, and it’s due to the dopamine and norepinephrine rising occurring when seeking for the abandoner who broke the social tie.

The super-rich and their secret worlds - Coda Story

A world that thrives on secrecy, flourishing on frozen tundra, in anonymous storage facilities, on remote tropical islands, even in outer space.

A Guide On Building Lasting Connections: How to Make and Keep Friends - Clearer Thinking

Connection is a basic human need, but it’s one that many of us feel we lack.

Checklists: The Key to Smarter and Safer Work - Ness Labs

Let’s explore the fascinating history of checklists and learn how you can design you own to unlock efficiency, precision.

Community Submissions

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