Medium has become our favorite destination to read online. Designers all over the world are using the platform to discover content about Design, User Experience, Usability and other topics related to creating and building digital projects. It's a pretty democratic platform, with a variety of authors that range from ambitious new grads to well-known design figures.

This is taken from my , and was originally published on 28 July 2016. Recently, I was asked by my pals at TalkBe to help them prototype an example of how a bot could work for a brand they work with in Facebook Messenger.

This post is supported by my backers on Patreon! Please consider supporting independent political writing by becoming a patron or making a one time donation. So, that Apple conference happened the other day. They took out the headphone jack, like tech journalists rumored for years and years, and are now selling you a $9 dongle or forcing you to get Bluetooth earbuds, which are...

Some designers don't take it seriously enough, others think it falls magically from the sky, and only a few take the challenge and really create it. I personally believe that icons are a very important part of a good design, and therefore every designer should be able to design a system of icons as long as there's passion, patience, and guidelines.

I plan to rescrape the data on a regular basis. Because of this, I'll keep analysis to a minimum, since it could become outdated when the data changes. Once I have data over a larger time period I'll be able to examine and graph trends in web development.