2016:39 What I learned this week

Did a lot of reading this week guys. Here's my hitlist:

User onboarding methods
https://current.innovatemap.com/5-delightful-ways-to-onboard-new-users-4c0496b30b6a#.tn4z10cvs


More UX stuff - Patterns for navigating in mobile
http://babich.biz/basic-patterns-for-mobile-navigation/


How Netflix restructured their API in 2012
http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/embracing-differences-inside-netflix.html


Netflix AB testing - I think it is great to see that the architecture behind being able to conduct AB testing in a robust manner requires more than just an analytics machine. Rather it's an entire platform that is leveraged by the rest of the company via an API frontdoor
http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/04/its-all-about-testing-netflix.html


Watching the presdiential debate in VR:

Yet even being so so laser-focused on the five candidates (and the bald head of the guy in front of the camera in the back), I feel like I missed a lot. I missed Donald Trump live-tweeting the debate, and Mike Huckabee saying insane things. I missed the conversation on Facebook, and all the funny things my friends were saying. I missed the real-time fact-checking some publications do. A debate is about so much more than the show; it’s about how we all experience it and interact with it, together.

https://www.wired.com/2015/10/dnc-debate-virtual-reality-gear-vr/


Spend 5 hours each day actively learning and retaining new information.
https://medium.com/@neocody/what-mr-robot-can-teach-you-about-the-five-hour-rule-388b11f75707

2016:38 What I learned this week

A new term I learned coined by Intuit "Follow you home" as an 'ethnography' method where you observe an individual in their own environment. It's different from watching a user use a specific product/usability studies, and broadens out to the contextual space around it. There's lots of looking for new insights and not so much rigid interviews.
http://www.businessinsider.com/intuits-cfo-wants-to-follow-you-home-and-watch-you-work-2015-12

A funny comic about what service design is and what their tasks are.
http://linkis.com/com/nraWt

An MIT game about the human perspective on artificial intelligence making moral decisions. Vhoose who gets to live. This is harder than you think.
http://moralmachine.mit.edu/

Really cool candy!
http://www.sweetsaba.com/

2016:31 What I learned this week

This is hilarious and weird. Make a stuffed version of your pet.
http://www.cuddleclones.com/

This makes me sad that from the media, we humans have been primed to think of a shooting when there are loud noises and large crowds.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/us/shooting-scares-show-a-nation-quick-to-fear-the-worst.html

A metaphor for data as a human second skin.
http://blog.castac.org/2015/10/destination-you/