Generative AI: What You Need To Know
Generative AI: What You Need To Know is a free resource that will help you develop an AI-bullshit detector.
You can read all the cards on one page, print them out, or print to PDF.
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Open sourcing the Product Planning Prompt Pack
This is very generous of Anna! She has a deck of cards with questions she asks in product planning meetings. You can download the pack for free.
15 years of Clearleft
Ah, look at this beautiful timeline that Cassie designed and built—so many beautiful little touches! It covers the fifteen years(!) of Clearleft so far.
But you can also contribute to it …by looking ahead to the next fifteen years:
Let’s imagine it’s 2035…
How do you hope the practice of design will have changed for the better?
Fill out an online postcard with your hopes for the future.
Meta Tags — Preview, Edit and Generate
This is a handy tool if you’re messing around with Twitter cards and other metacrap.
Pitfalls of Card UIs - daverupert.com
I’m going through a pattern library right now, and this rings true:
I’m of the opinion that all cards in a Card UI are destined to become baby webpages. Just like modals. Baby hero units with baby titles and baby body text and baby dropdown menu of actions and baby call to action bars, etc.
In some ways this outcome is the opposite of what you were intending. You wanted a Card UI where everything was simple and uniform, but what you end up with is a CSS gallery website filled with baby websites.
Nutrition Cards for Accessible Components A11Y Expectations
A handy bunch of checklists from Dave for creating accessible components. Each component gets a card that lists the expectations for interaction.
The Tarot Cards Of Tech
A useful set of questions to ask on any project, shuffled and dealt to you.
They’ll not only help you foresee unintended consequences—they can also reveal opportunities for positive change.
All of the content in images. Not a single image has alternative text. If only they had asked themselves:
When you picture your user base, who is excluded? If they used your product, what would their experience be like?
Improve Your Billing Form’s UX In One Day – Smashing Magazine
A few straightforward steps for improving the usability of credit card forms. The later steps involve JavaScript but the first step uses nothing more than straight-up HTML.
The ‘Credit Card Number’ Field Must Allow and Auto-Format Spaces (80% Don’t) - Articles - Baymard Institute
A deep dive into formatting credit card numbers with spaces in online forms.
The Palate Deck: Playing Cards for Beer Tasting by Dave Shea — Kickstarter
Dave’s Kickstarter project looks like it could be very handy on Fridays a beer o’clock in the Clearleft office.
Temporary Constellations — Buckley Williams
This is a really lovely project by Dan and Nat—Christmas cards featuring the fleeting invisible constellations formed by the mesh of GPS satellites within which our planet lies.
Kate’s Christmas cards (est.1998) | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Kate has been hand-making Christmas cards for seventeen years.
2013’s Gizmo Stardust remains my favourite.
The Brand Deck by Scott Thomas — Kickstarter
This Eno-esque deck of cards by Scott could prove very useful for a lot of Clearleft projects.
Postcards from a Supply Chain
Dan has started writing up what he did on his Summer hols …on a container ship travelling to China.
It is, of course, in the form of an email newsletter because that’s what all the cool kids are doing these days.
dawdlr
A twitter for the Long Now from Russell Davies. You can submit an answer to the question “What are you doing, you know, more generally?” to:
Dawdlr, c/o RIG, 32-38 Scrutton Street, London, EC2A 4RQ
SXSW speakers: Promote your panel with free MOO MiniCards! | The Lanyrd Blog
Moo and Lanyrd sitting in a tree, helping promote my SXSW panel. Excellent!
The trouble with font classifications | Clagnut § Design thinking · Typography
Richard would like your help. Take a few minutes to run through a card-sorting exercise to help classify fonts in a more meaningful way.
ID card database destroyed - a set on Flickr
For once, I’m happy to see data being destroyed.
Polish Sound Postcards
The wonderful world of audio pressed onto postcards: a Polish tradition.
