App Design Guidelines For High-Performance Mobile User Experiences – July 2011, Smashing Magazine
An evolving reference for user experience design
App Design Guidelines For High-Performance Mobile User Experiences – July 2011, Smashing Magazine
If You Want to Be Successful, Don’t Spend Too Much Time Planning: A Case Study
This Forbes article explains why it’s futile to spend too much time with research and preparations. For me, it underlines the beauty of the iterative process and helps fight perfectionism/procrastination/imposter syndrome by advocating the -act-learn-build-repeat mindset. We act, learn from our actions, rebuild based on those lessons, and repeat by acting once more. The advice makes a lot of sense because the constant change in the world often renders preparation useless.
Why You Should Blog About Learning Coding
Mikke Goes encourages beginners, especially beginning coders, to blog despite their lack of knowledge at the outset. For him, writing about his process was the most efficent method for improvement. He also acknowledges naysayers by admitting that it was not always easy and his views were wrong on occasion, but that the advantage of blogging: even negative or critical feedback could nudge him on the right course.
The benefits to blogging even as a beginner are as follows: