The loss of creative people is complex. If we have nothing to do with a creator in person, then our grief is often more to do with the loss of potential future output—the books unwritten and songs unsung. But we are not our work. It is a part of us, but not the whole of us. Certainly no substitute for the love we give—or are unable to give—to our children. No shortcut to understanding our innermost selves, or what we meant to the people who loved us.

mind the gap

An introduction to object-oriented UX and how to do it This is how my brain works.

I’m jealous of Mo Willems' notebooks

mornin'

Commuting from home mug

Things I liked this week story machine, TIL, known dude, winter books, monkey men, and more

Somethings I liked this week ghost kitchens, mystery seeds, reading highlights, memorable passwords, hockey on a mountain, and more

Somethings I like this week (since it’s Friday in the US).

space, vikings, quiet internet, tactical IA, vaccine fiction, optimism, —, and more: thingstoclick.substack.com/p/somethi…

So I’m trying out Substack if you would like to subscribe for a weekly dose of links.

Frank Moth’s post cards from the future are amazing example:

Runners.

An evening walk, lots of crunchy leaves and some ghosts.

Saying goodbye to summer:

• Sunny Waves
• Morning vibes /via culture study
• The last cone of the summer

And hello to Fall (and spooky season):

• Fall In an oldie, but a goodie (very pre-covid vibe though if that kind of thing makes you sad/nervous).
• Small Seasons to track the seasons within the seasons.
• Some autumnal splendor.
• 31 spooky movies for kids/teens
• henrifilm’s photos are on the spooky side.

• Word Notebooks & Pilot G-2 mini pens
• Tune In, Zone Out, a playlist by Aquarium Drunkard, has been a good work companion this week
• The last gig of the Beastie Boys, only up for a short time
• The Tweak New Twitter extension is nice
• Gelatinous Cube by Andy Helms
• Typography on Pencils

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Twitter adds all those numbers to the end of usernames

[Shot by Ned is a painting by Peter Brown] (https://www.mallgalleries.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/conversations-prize/shot-ned)

Don’t draw the UI, draw the priority instead meaning you should " … write a humble list of priorities for every project: most important info at the top -> least important info at the bottom. So instead of trying to figure out the order of the information in a component—like a card or a table or what have you, we should use this content audit to help define the visual priority of each bit."

A first person video of walking in a heavy thunderstorm at night in NYC is much more intersting than it sounds.

/via chris glass

Landsburg continued to photograph the eruption until the last possible moment, leaving himself enough time to wind up his film into its case, place his camera in its bag, place that bag into his backpack, and lay his body on top of the bag as the final protective layer against the shower of magma and ash. (source)

/via tecznts

What it’s like to live in an isolated mountain cabin at the end of an abandoned logging trail.

Now, instead of finished plans, designers must create possibilities for others to design and make; designers must build flexible platforms, defined by patterns and rules for interaction and rules for changing the rules. Instead of making decisions about what and how, designers facilitate conversations about why and who.

— Hugh Dubberly

About Feeds hopes to ‘…become the default “Help! What is this?” link next to every web feed icon on the web.’