TLDR Design

TLDR DESIGN 2023-10-03

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02STRATEGIES & TACTICS

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.com6 min read

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.com10 min read

03RESOURCES & TOOLS

EASING MADE EASY

Epic Easy enables you to create your custom animation curve, spring, or bounce. If you're unfamiliar with custom animations, presets are also available. The tool includes export to CSS, SCSS, Objective-C, and Swift.

epiceasing.comTool

UNIQUE COLOR COMBINATIONS

In 2012, Tobias van Schneider felt the need to collect and combine unique colors for his future projects. From that, ColorClaim was born. This page displays 120 gorgeous color pairs, mostly made of one main and one accent color.

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04MISCELLANEOUS

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.com2 min read

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.com5 min read

"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.dev4 min read