The Daily Index — Tuesday, October 3, 2023 · TLDR Index

NEWS & TRENDS

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GOOGLE IS SHUTTING DOWN JAMBOARD

In late 2024, Google will wind down the Jamboard whiteboarding app and continue with the previously planned end of support for Google Jamboard devices. The device is a 55-inch digital whiteboard meant for education and work purposes. The tech giant has also started integrating third-party whiteboard tools such as Figjam by Figma, Lucidspark by Lucid Software, and visual workspace Miro across Google Workspace.

mashable.com · 2 min

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SCALPING MAYHEM

The unique collaboration initiative between the Pokémon Company and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, intended to promote the museum's 50th anniversary, included a limited-edition promo card for the Pokémon Trading Card Game featuring the art of Pikachu inspired by Van Gogh's Self-Portrait in Grey Felt Hat. The card's release unleashed chaos at the museum, overwhelming visitors and staff with crowds chasing the unique Pokémon merchandise. Online, the Pokémon x Van Gogh Museum collection sold out almost immediately as it went live in the U.S. and Canada.

gizmodo.com · 4 min

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BILLION DOLLAR BUSINESS

Airbnb's co-founder Joe Gebbia reveals how design thinking saved the company from almost busting in 2009. The founding team's unusual approach included doing things that don't scale but add genuine value to customers, relying on observation and patience, letting the team run wild with creative hypotheses that are not backed up but post-evaluated by data, and motivating people to ship on day one.

review.firstround.com · 6 min

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CRACKING THE DESIGN CHALLENGE: A GUIDE FOR SENIOR PRODUCT DESIGNERS

Applying for senior roles can involve multiple rounds of interviews, take-home design challenges, and presentations. Prepare yourself with this practical guide based on a real-world scenario.

medium.muz.li · 5 min

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IN-PAGE LINKS FOR CONTENT NAVIGATION

In-page links, such as a Back to Top link or a Skip to Content link for keyboard users, can serve various purposes, but one of their most common uses is in a table of contents. A table of contents, usually found at the top of information-rich pages, presents a structured list of the content topics on that page, allowing users to click and navigate directly to their desired sections.

nngroup.com · 10 min

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THE BIGGEST LIE: WE CARE ABOUT OUR USERS

Most companies will say that they care about users. But is that still true when some shady design pattern could boost business metrics? Infinite scrolls, video autoplay, data privacy breaches, hidden delete account controls, and other dark patterns are recent plagues that have infested the user experience.

admixweb.com · 2 min

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HERE’S WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO BUILD A WEBSITE IN THE 90S

Building a website in the 90s was undeniably different. The web design industry was nascent – if it existed at all. Standards and best practices were still years away and there were no sophisticated tools so designers had to adapt existing tools for this new medium.

speckyboy.com · 5 min

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"AI", AND THE TROUBLE WITH INACCESSIBLE SAAS

You have an idea and put together a dirty prototype to test it. People love it, and you decide that the MVP can become a product. What can go wrong? You will end up with a completely inaccessible SaaS product, and the amount of work needed to go back and fix all the problems is so costly that it will never be a "business priority."

localghost.dev · 4 min

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USER STORIES AREN’T THE TALE FOR DISCOVERY

User stories, with their "As a [user], I want [action] so that [benefit]" format, may oversimplify complex needs and overlook the bigger picture in favor of a narrow solution-focused approach.

grillopress.github.io · 2 min