• New iOS Design Pattern: Slide-out Navigation – Ken Yarmosh
  I find the slide out really undermines discovery but appreciate how it keeps things super clean.
• Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3? – Quora
  Amazing answer.
• The Next Chapter: All Eyes on the Future (err, the past) at Back of the Envelope | Jonathan Wegener’s Technology/Marketing Blog
  So happy to be working with Jonathan, Benny and the Timehop team.
• Coding Horror: On Parenthood
  One of the best pieces on parenting I've read.
• Confessions of a Publisher: “We’re in Amazon’s Sights and They’re Going to Kill Us” | PandoDaily
  Great piece. Tough to have too much pity on executives who got caught resting on their laurels.
• Chris Messina’s Collection of Design Patterns
  Wow. Amazing collection.

• Eric Stromberg — How to Make an Impact During the First Month of Your Startup Job
  GREAT list right here.
• The Discreet Shift to Twitter | Monday Note
  "It now seems Facebook’s usage is undergoing a split. Active Facebookers become increasingly engaged, spend more time doing more stuff, while “reasonable” users (above 25) become more reluctant and careful."
• The Life Reports II – NYTimes.com
  This is a few weeks old but some amazing lessons drawn from people who've lived their whole lives.
• iPad App Teaches You How To Finally Master Your DSLR Camera | Co.Design
  Looking forward to seeing more and more of these.
• The Messy Art Of UX Sketching – Smashing UX Design
  Nice technique breakdown.
• Fab 2011 timeline
  Amazing story.

• 14 Of The Year’s Best Ideas In Interface Design | Co.Design
  Lots to get inspired by on this list.
• 10 things we learned about Apple this year – SplatF
  Great list from Dan.
• Get a Recipe Every Time You Check-In at a Grocery Store
  Neat!
• Snake Oil? The scientific evidence for health supplements
  Excellent, informativem infographic.
• How to Curb Three Major Stressors in Life
  Some great tactics here.
• The Public Humiliation Diet: A How-To
  Manages to be inspiring and totally hilarious at the same time.

• Foursquare + Square = Killer Small Business Social CRM « I’m Not Actually a Geek
  "There is no CRM for offline small businesses" < great quote.
• Voulez-vous check-in avec moi ce soir? || faberNovel
  Realtime social heatmap of New York, Paris and London, using foursquare check-ins.
• Clear Indications That It’s Time To Redesign – Smashing UX Design
  "While there are many ways to tackle tech and UX debt on an incremental level, there comes a point when the website, in essence, becomes 'totalled.' "
• Latest Version – Matt Gemmell
  Great post on deciding which OS version to support (i.e. when can you stop supporting the geezer OSes)
• Google Circles and Path 2.0: How good UI design cannot fix a broken solution
  
• Daring Fireball: The New Twitter (R.I.P. Tweetie)
  What also worries me is that these changes suggest not only a difference in opinion regarding how a Twitter client should work, but also regarding just what the point is of Twitter as a service. The Twitter service I signed up for is one where people tweet 140-character posts, you follow those people whose tweets you tend to enjoy, and that’s it. The Twitter service this new UI presents is about a whole lot more — mass-market spoonfed “trending topics” and sponsored content. It’s trying to make Twitter work for people who don’t see the appeal of what Twitter was supposed to be. It all makes sense if you think of the label under the “#” tab as reading “Dickbar” instead of “Discover”.

• Twitter for iPhone: A history – Jeremy Stanley
  Great historical walkthrough the evolution of Twitter on iPhone.
• Gimmicks and Patterns in Interface Design | The Intercom Blog
  
• Redesigning Gesture Icons – A Proposed System — Some Random Dude
  Awesome set of icons to use when communicating gestural interfaces.
• Gifts for User Experience Geeks 2011 | Blog | Nick Finck | UX/IA Pro, Speaker, and Community Cultivator.
  Always a good list for the UX nerdz out there.
• A Cane For The Blind Improves Social Interactions, Sunday Strolls | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation
  A cane that lets people "see" foursquare check-ins.
• Design Staff – Hiring a Designer: Hunting the Unicorn
  Great post on trying to hire the elusive unicorn.

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• The Social Graph is Neither (Pinboard Blog)
  
• You Don’t Have to Tweet to Twitter « abovethecrowd.com
  Really smart post.
• Here’s The Information Facebook Gathers On You As You Browse The Web
  Wee!
• The RunKeeper Roadmap: Building A Successful Startup Through Community and Data
  Love the team at RunKeeper and really excited about how they're tackling their grand vision.
• John Ciancutti’s answer to Is there a better alternative to the 5-star rating system? – Quora
  Awesome post on a much discussed topic.
• Lefsetz Letter » Just like the iPod killed the Walkman, tablets are going to devastate PCs, it’s just that most people don’t know it yet.
  

• My 10 years of blogging: Reflections, Lessons & Some Stats Too
  Excellent retrospective on 10 years of blogging from one of my favorite tech bloggers, Om Malik.
• A Review of Stamped for iPhone | Bridging the Nerd Gap
  No disrespect to Oink, TinyReview and others but Stamped has won my heart. Between the simple + elegant UI and the lightweight structure around primary categories, it was the only one to really engage me beyond my initial exploratory uses. Now to see if an app solely based on micro-reviews can maintain engagement over the long haul.
• Six degrees: What does it mean to be Facebook friends? — Tech News and Analysis
  
• Why Facebook is (mostly) right about sharing — Tech News and Analysis
  
• Facebook is gaslighting the web. We can fix it. – Anil Dash
  
• ‘The Problem With Stamped’ — The Brooks Review
  Interesting take on a perceived problem with the game mechanics Stamped has laid out.

• Condition ONE
  Killer immersive video experience for the iPad. Hope we start seeing more and more of this kind of stuff.




• LukeW | UI16: Experience Leadership




• Case Study: RadioShack Finds Foursquare Customers Spend More | Street Fight




• Everybody Hates the New Google Reader, Especially The People Who Designed Google Reader | Betabeat — News, gossip and intel from Silicon Alley 2.0.
  Turns out the product that never seemed to have enough users to merit attention has a pretty loyal following.




• How Foursquare Helped Me Overcome Depression | Jennifer Sable Lopez
  So yea… I’m damn proud of my mayorships and now it gives me something to hold on to. It may sound silly, but some days when I don’t want to get up and go for a walk because it’s pitch-fricken-dark out there, I remember my mayorship. And I’ll be damned if someone is going to take that away from me.
• Android Hardware-Buttons Are (Conceptually) Broken
  The other lesson: the importance of getting things right, from the outset. If you’re designing just an app, you can fix many design errors later; if you’re designing an app platform, though, it’s hard to fix system-wide design errors without breaking existing apps.

• Never Ask a Busy Person to Lunch. Here’s Why…
• Every Child Is A Scientist | Wired Science | Wired.com
  The moral is that parents and teachers must navigate the fine line between giving kids a taste of knowledge – the universe is not all mystery – while at the same time preserving a sense of ambiguity and uncertainty. When we explain things to kids, we shouldn’t pretend that we have all the answers.
• Learn Web Design, Web Development, and iOS Development – Treehouse
  Slick looking tool to learn web design, web development and iOS development. Adding this to the long list of things I want to dive into when I have free time. Between this and Code Academy, I love the move towards making programming generally more accessible to people.
• Rethinking Google+ for iOS: Take 1 – Kaishinlab
  Looks about 1000x better.

• Elad Blog: Hire For The Ability To Get Shit Done
  A thousand amens.
• Codecademy Looks Like The Future Of Learning To Me « Uncrunched
  I cannot say enough great things about Code Academy.
• Rands In Repose: The Rands Test
  Lopp's blog is a gem in general when it comes to management and this post is a great example why. Simple, yet thorough, post to help you get a read on the quality of communication at your organization.
• cdixon.org – chris dixon’s blog / Some lessons learned
  A old classic from Chris.