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A few years ago, The New York Times asked readers to guess a trend line before showing the actual data. It forced readers to test their own beliefs against reality. TheyDrawIt from the MU Collective is a tool that lets you make similar prediction charts:

These line graphs encourage readers to reflect on their own beliefs by predicting the data before seeing it. Only after they draw a prediction does the real data appear. The graph can then show the reader traces of other peoples’ predictions. This progression makes it easy for readers to visualize the difference between their predicted beliefs, their peer’s beliefs, and the actual data.

Give it a go.

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Zach Leatherman worked closely with Chris to figure out the font loading strategy for this very website you're reading. Zach walks us through the design in this write-up and shares techniques that can be applied to other projects.

Spoiler alert: Font loading is a complex and important part of a project.

The really interesting part of this post is the way that Zach talks about changing the design based on what’s best for the codebase — or as Harry Roberts calls it, “normalising the design.” Is a user really going to notice the difference between font-weight: 400 and font-weight: 500? Well, if we can ditch a whole font file, then that could have a significant impact on performance which, in turn, improves the user experience.

I guess the conversation can instead be framed like this: Does the user experience of this font outweigh the user experience of a slightly faster website?

And this isn’t a criticism of the design at all! I think Zach shows us what a healthy relationship between designers and developers can look like: collaborating and making joint decisions based on the context and the problem at hand, rather than treating static mockups as the final, concrete source of truth.

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Ich bin allein im Abteil, es ist dunkel und bis auf das monotone Grundrauschen des fahrenden Zuges still. Perfekte Bedingungen, um sich sanft vom sich wiegenden Wagen in den Schlaf wiegen zu lassen. Wenn dann ein weiterer Fahrgast das Abteil betritt und direkt das Licht anmacht, ist es schon nicht mehr das gleiche.
Aber man kann das Licht ja zum Glück wieder ausmachen. Dummerweise kann man das Licht aber auch wieder anmachen. Aber man kann das Licht ja zum Glück auch wieder ausmachen. Aber dummerweise kann man das Licht auch dann wieder anmachen….


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