March 2021

If any person behaved like an app—rifled through your address book, fitted a tracking device to your car, obsessively logged what books and TV shows you watched, and wanted to disturb you at any moment of the day or night—you’d throw them out of your house and call the police.
— Tom Morris 2021-03-16

Reposting a Tweet by Tom Morris

What happened to our culture that this kind of abusive behaviour became so normalized it is not even questioned any more by most? Here’s a free and simple design heuristic for you: Don’t design any artifact that you would throw out of your house for anti-social conduct!

16 Mar 2021

#privacy
Skipping skip links vasilis.nl

Bookmark: "Skipping skip links"

Such a refreshing take by Vasilis van Gemert: why do we make people "skip" over navigation links placed at the beginning of a page instead of putting them to the end and offer a "jump to navigation" skiplink?

8 Mar 2021

#a11y