John DeHope

All teams will henceforth expose their data and functionality through service interfaces.

https://www.sametab.com/blog/frameworks-for-remote-working

This past July our team was asked to present at the Product-Led Summit. Our talk was created for non-designers to understand key principles for effective UI Design. We focused on Visual Hierarchy, Alignment, Designing for Action (button design), and Form design. We enjoyed presenting the material so much that we decided to dig a little deeper and write a few articles to explore and expand each concept.

https://blog.balsamiq.com/basic-design-principles/

Today, though, we’re talking about a different heuristic – one of the most-used and most-useful that I know: the laws of locality. These are three ideas that explain where in your UI you should put certain controls. Why “should” you put a certain control somewhere? Well, the simple answer is: because that’s where your users expect it to be. The laws of locality tell you where users expect certain controls to be, and, taken together, you will see examples of them in basically every digital interface you will ever use – this one included, of course.

https://learnui.design/blog/the-3-laws-of-locality.html

What I want to talk about today is four little rules that will help eliminate these pain points in your own designs. They’re the heuristics that are a level or two deeper than “use radio buttons if the user can only select one thing”. But, if you can remember to obey the things in this checklist, you’ll be that much closer to creating designs that your users can use easily right off the bat, freeing up your time for other, more important things.

https://learnui.design/blog/4-rules-intuitive-ux.html

In an Era of Constrained Resources, the Navy Adopted a Weapons System Whose Cost Prevented Both Proper Testing and Realistic Training.

https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2018/2/8/fire-one-fire-ten-implications-of-the-torpedo-scandal-of-world-war-ii

A genetic mutation that slowed down the development of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) in two or more children may have triggered a cascade of events leading to acquisition of recursive language and modern imagination 70,000 years ago.

https://phys.org/news/2019-08-recursive-language-modern-simultaneously-years.html

Compounding works only to the extent that your lifestyle doesn’t force you to sell investments at inopportune times to fund your lifestyle. Someone earning average but uninterrupted returns may be better off than someone outperforming by 50 basis points a year yet forced to liquidate a portion during every bear market to pay off lenders.

https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/inseparable-pairs/

Everyone belongs to a tribe and underestimates how influential that tribe is on their thinking. There is little correlation between climate change denial and scientific literacy. But there is a strong correlation between climate change denial and political affiliation. That’s an extreme example, but everyone has views persuaded by identity over pure analysis.

https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/ideas-that-changed-my-life/

3. Brandolini’s law: “The amount of energy needed to refute bullsh*t is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.”

https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/laws/

In an internet-famous essay called Meditations on Moloch, SSC warns us that this god is behind humans’ failure to coordinate at scale. He points to a wide variety of intractable problems — climate change, the prisoner’s dilemma, overfishing, arms races, government corruption — and explains the underlying pattern they all have in common:

https://aaronzlewis.com/blog/2019/07/25/metaphors-we-believe-by/