Last week my wife and I welcomed a new addition into our family, Angelo DeNardis (opens new window). It has been exciting and awesome at the same time. It has also allowed me to catch up on some much needed reading, writing and thinking. The links below caught my attention this last week and I hope you find something interesting.

Analytics

• Higher Ed Analytics - Google Analytics A/B Test Worksheet for #highered (opens new window)

Design

• Unorthodox Layouts: The Next Big Thing? (opens new window)

Inspiration

• Giving Back: Preservation Detroit (opens new window)
• I Suck! And So Do You! (opens new window)
• ["But what if I fail?"](http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2014/01/but-what-if-i-fail.html ""But what if I fail?"")
• Delight the weird (opens new window)

Leadership

• Conference organizer tips (from a speaker's perspective) (opens new window)

Mobile

• Opinion- There Is No Mobile Internet (opens new window)
• The Mobile Content Mandate (opens new window)
• The Mobile Moment (opens new window)

UX

• The Five Pillars of a Great UX Project (opens new window)

Web Development

• Bulletproof Accessible Icon Fonts (opens new window)
• When To Use The Button Element (opens new window)
• The Technology Behind the NYTimes.com Redesign (opens new window)
• “A nicer color palette for the web.” (opens new window)
• Web Standards Killed The HTML Star (opens new window)
• Vagrant, Puppet, Docker? (opens new window)
• Why We Still Need Web-safe Fonts (opens new window)

Web Tools

• SaveDeo Downloads Videos from Instagram, Flickr and Other Video Sites (opens new window)
• Advanced Image Optimization Tricks (opens new window)

Writing

• The Intrinsic Value of Blogging (opens new window)