Read These (Product Design Links)
Here’s what’s inspiring us this week:
Thomas Meimarides: Intercom has a great writeup on mobile browsers being the future universal app. I’ve often overlooked how many native apps drive you into a browser within their app. Adding this to recent measures for the number of apps a user will use to daily, the mobile browser is an even more universal medium. All of you mobile-web proponents from years ago can come back out of hiding and say “we told you so!” https://medium.com/swlh/browsers-not-apps-are-the-future-of-mobile-c552752ff75#.x429adi72
Sarah Adams: Unfortunately this link is best enjoyed by people who live in New York. A group of designers (artists?), have opened up a store to help you analyze your digital data. There are interesting devices and workshops that prod you about what kind of information you are sharing with the world.
https://theglassroomnyc.org
Sarah Adams: Make sure to turn your sound on for this experience, it’s a fun and creepy one. I don’t want to reveal too much, but based on your web connection and interactions this website shows just how much it knows about you. Good insight into seeing what you can track about a visitor’s presence on your site.
https://clickclickclick.click
Thomas Meimarides: When I first started reading this, I was all 🤔 😫. It was only about halfway through that I realized that Keaton Herzer was being sarcastic. At that point, i was just 😳 😂. A good laugh and moment of serious self reflection and deprecation for any product designer: https://blog.prototypr.io/the-ideal-design-workflow-2c200b8e337d#.yioqbwil5
Thomas Meimarides: Two more quick ones from me. I also have forgotten about print-only style sheets. If you talk to your customers, it’s likely that they definitely print out certain pages of your app or experience, especially if they’re ordering something. Delta, I’m looking at you. And if it prints poorly, it reflects poorly on your brand: https://uxdesign.cc/i-totally-forgot-about-print-style-sheets-f1e6604cfd6#.boxopuexa.
And following up to some other conversations we’ve been having about chat-based UX, I thought this article was insightful and interesting: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/11/does-conversation-hurt-or-help-the-chatbot-ux/.
Sarah Adams: This is perhaps one of the most universal of universal remotes. A quick peek at the screen on the remote appears to show a beautiful and intuitive UI. But it does bring up questions — why not have these capabilities built into our phones? Why another gadget? On the site it says the remote control supports Uber, and I do wonder about the experience of ordering an Uber from your…remote.
https://remote.sevenhugs.com/
Thomas: as Sarah and I were slacking about the Uber remote, I remembered this thing of beauty, and quickly added it to my amazon cart.
