Amazon ECS Service Discovery | Amazon Web Services

Posted inReposts2019-06-28
Amazon ECS Service Discovery | Amazon Web Services Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now includes integrated service discovery. This makes it possible for an ECS service to automatically register itself with a predictable and friendly DNS name in Amazon Route 53. As your services scale up or down in response to load or container health, the Route 53 hosted zone is kept up to date, allowing other services to lookup where they need to make connections based on the state of each service. 

How to destroy user experience with too many choices

Posted inReposts2018-11-24
How to destroy user experience with too many choicesI hate those kinds of restaurants, where they have like a hundred different dishes on their menu. Due to the terrifying number of choices, I get decision paralysis and I usually end up ordering a grilled cheese with potato on the side.

Unboxing Chrome – Hannah Lee

Posted inReposts2018-10-28
Unboxing Chrome – Hannah LeeIn honor of Chrome’s 10th birthday in September 2018, we launched a complete redesign of our UI which involved an overhaul of our design process. And while Chrome has always been open source, I wanted to share more of our design stories in the hopes that others can learn from it.

Creative Selection – Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs

Posted inReviews2018-09-08
Creative Selection - Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs Hundreds of millions of people use Apple products every day; several thousand work on Apple’s campus in Cupertino, California; but only a handful sit at the drawing board. Creative Selection recounts the life of one of the few who worked behind the scenes, a highly-respected software engineer who worked in the final years of the Steve Jobs era―the Golden Age of Apple. Ken Kocienda offers an inside look at Apple’s creative process. For fifteen years, he was on the ground floor of the company as a…

How UX Designers Make Developers More Efficient

Posted inReposts2018-08-24
How UX Designers Make Developers More Efficient At my company, we have been developing web and mobile apps for almost 13 years. For the first 10 of those years our team was completely made up of developers: we did not have any UI or UX designers on our team. When we began our first project with our newly hired design director, we found something that we were not expecting, but very pleasantly surprised by. In addition to developers creating better-looking applications, they were also significantly more productive. This article will explore what we learned in that process and outline how…

Jony Ive on Simplicity

Posted inArticles2018-08-12
Why do we assume that simple is good? Because with physical products, we have to feel we can dominate them. As you bring order to complexity, you find a way to make the product defer to you. Simplicity isn’t just a visual style. It’s not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of the complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep. For example, to have no screws on something, you can end up having a product that is so convoluted and so complex. The better way is to go deeper…

Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

Posted inReviews2018-08-11
Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager Read hilarious stories with serious lessons that Michael Lopp extracts from his varied and sometimes bizarre experiences as a manager at Apple, Pinterest, Palantir, Netscape, Symantec, Slack, and Borland. Many of the stories first appeared in primitive form in Lopp’s perennially popular blog, Rands in Repose. The Third Edition of Managing Humans contains a whole new season of episodes from the ongoing saga of Lopp’s adventures in Silicon Valley, together with classic episodes remastered for high fidelity and freshness. Whether you’re an aspiring manager, a current manager, or just…

Is this my interface or yours?

Posted inReposts2018-08-11
Is this my interface or yours? As you tap around from app to app, you’ll see that there’s no standard way to refer to the things that belong to you within an interface. Some say it’s mystuff. Some say it’s your stuff. If you’re designing an interface, does it matter whether the words are written from the user’s point of view or the product’s point of view? I think there’s a subtle difference, and it all depends on how you want your users to feel while using your product. John Saito

The Laws of Simplicity (Design, Technology, Business, Life)

Posted inReviews2018-08-11
The Laws of Simplicity (Design, Technology, Business, Life)
The Laws of Simplicity (Design, Technology, Business, Life) The basic objective of the book, the Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life) is to promote simplicity. The book has been authored by John Maeda and it equates simplicity with sanity. We are living in an era which is heavily dependent on technology, which can be complicated. for example, DVD players come with many menus and options and softwares which are bundled with voluminous manuals which are often too tedious to go through. However, despite the technological advancements, we want things that are easy and simple to use and, at…