The five best design links, every weekday

Date: 2016/08/26

medium.com

A Bad Product Decision

I often wonder if I should have been fired for it I find that so little is shared by product managers about their failures, which sucks for newbies because it perpetuates the illusion that all these other PMs execute flawlessly, when in fact most are making mistakes all the time.

medium.com

Life lessons learned while bringing art to hospital patients

Life lessons learned while bringing art to hospital patients For the last year I've been volunteering at the University of Vermont Medical Center (where I am also a UX consultant and patient) through a program called Art from the Heart.

backchannel.com

An Exclusive Look at How AI and Machine Learning Work at Apple

An exclusive inside look at how artificial intelligence and machine learning work at Apple On July 30, 2014, Siri had a brain transplant. Three years earlier, Apple had been the first major tech company to integrate a smart assistant into its operating system.

blog.iconfinder.com

Affinity Designer Review for Icon Design

Matt Priestley, lead developer for Affinity Designer echoes the same sentiment when he says, "I want our products to be good in their own right: It's not good enough to be better than 'x' or 'y', you should just be really good and that be the end of the sentence".

pattern.is

Pattern — Simple, focused, drawing application for iPad

Design Drawing for iPad and iPad Pro.