Quotebacks A Tool by Tom Critchlow & Toby Shorin quotebacks.net Quotebacks brings structured discourse to blogs and personal websites. Quotebacks makes it easy to reference content and create dialogue with other sites by turning snippets of text into elegant, self-contained blockquote components. hypermediawwwblogging
Narrative Strategy An Article by Tom Critchlow tomcritchlow.com An unfolding network of associations
What UI really is (and how UX confuses matters) An Article by Ryan Singer rjs.medium.com People mix the terms UI and UX together. UX is tricky because it doesn’t refer to any one thing. Interface design, visual styling, code performance, uptime, and feature set all contribute to the user’s “experience.” Books on UX further complicate matters by including research methods and development methodologies. All of this makes the field confusing for people who want to understand the fundamentals. That’s why I avoid teaching the term ’UX.’ It means too many things to too many different people. Instead I focus on individual skills. Once you understand the individual skills, you can assemble them into a composite system without blurring them together. For software design, the core skill among all user-facing concerns is user interface design. uxinterfaces