I started back to work today after basically a month off if you count holiday break and paternity leave after my wife and I welcomed Angelo into our lives. The time gave me some space to relax, re-evaluate and catch up on things, a great refresher. It also gave me the opportunity to read, below are some articles that I found particularly interesting.
Analytics
- College Web Editor – Why #highered should get excited about Universal Analytics & Google Tag Manager
- Here Comes Universal Analytics
- Higher Ed Analytics – Google Analytics A/B Test Worksheet for #highered: Fill in the Blanks to Optimize Your College?s Web Pages
Design
- 20 Web Designs That Look Like Animated Infographics
- A Guide to Social Logins
- The experience is the product
- The Pattern Library: A Great New Resource For Designers (And Wannabes)
- Amount of snow to cancel school
Food
Freelance
- Rachel Andrew on the Business of Web Dev: Making Time for Side Projects
- Five Career Mistakes You Might Not Know You’re Making
Great Offices
- New Feature: Collections – Browse Offices by Room
- Inside BFG Communications’ Skate Park-themed Office
Highered
- 6 Technologies Will Change Colleges in Coming Years, Experts Say
- mStoner blog – Forks in the Road
- CKSyme.com – The Ultimate Social Media Engagement Tool: Free Tuition
- 5 proven, mind-blowing ways to get people to read your blog
- British University to Accept Bitcoin as Payment for Some Courses
- 3 branding game-changers and how #highered must adapt
Inspiration
- Why You Can Never Finish Anything And How to Finally Change It
- I Became an Entity: How I’m on the Knowledge Graph
- See All The Spots From Super Bowl XLVIII
- Release quality sets expectations
- Lessons learned from my first semester of teaching
- Stamping Dollar Bills With Evidence That They’ve Been Used For Good
- 4 Soft Skills That You Need To Learn
- The person you could be hiring
- The answer to, “is that the best you can do…”
- Shipping as a beginning, not an end
- “The problem is that we don’t have the right words to talk about this stuff.”
- Six Life Lessons I’ve Learned from Programming
- Giving Back: Preservation Detroit
- I Suck! And So Do You!
- “But what if I fail?”
Leadership
- 5 Steps to Reclaim Your Credibility After You Screw Up
- 8 Awesome Business & Entrepreneurial Podcasts
- Susan Talbert Evans Blog – Ready to Roll: Expanding your team.
- Employ the “Rule Of 3” for Daily, Weekly and Annual Productivity
- Why Coaching Matters
- Incorporate a Daily Prioritization Meeting into Your Morning Routine
- Conference call hygiene
- The Neuroscience Of Effective Leadership
- How To Combat A Ridiculous Work Schedule And Stop Feeling So Overwhelmed
- 5 Crucial Strategies For Making 2014 Your Most Innovative Year Yet
- Everyone does everything
- Conference organiser tips (from a speaker’s perspective)
Mobile
- Three Steps for Improving Mobile UX
- Sprint Unveils Free Cloud Storage Service
- Opinion- There Is No Mobile Internet
- The Mobile Content Mandate
- The Mobile Moment
Parenting
- The 4-Day Wait Rule Finds Food Your Baby is Allergic to
- Kickstarter Loves This Children’s Book That Gets Kids Excited About Coding
Social Media
Startup
- Do you love your customers?
- Why We Bootstrapped Our Company
- A (Nearly) Complete Online Toolkit For Startups
User Interface
- Contact from Dashag – UI Design Pattern
- 404 page from Mint – UI Design Pattern
- Why Her Will Dominate UI Design Even More Than Minority Report | Wired Design | Wired.com
User Experience
- Preference and Desirability Testing: Measuring Emotional Response to Guide Design
- Designing for Easy Interaction
- When Design Best Practices Become Performance Worst Practices
- User Experience is…
- Forks in the Road
- Your real competitors
- Killing Feature Creep
- Scrolling is easier than clicking
- Usability Tip: Don’t Make Me Search for Search
- How fast is fast enough?
Web Development
- International box-sizing Awareness Day
- Be the First to Attend the 2014 Build Right Workshops
- To Sass or Not to Sass? The Two Tims on The East Wing
- Boxes That Fill Height (Or More) (and Don’t Squish)
- You Might Not Need jQuery
- Thought Process of a Front End Problem
- A Dive Into Plain JavaScript
- Changing Between Spaces and Tabs in Sublime Text
- CSS Animation Tricks: State Jumping, Negative Delays, Animating Origin, and More
- Bulletproof Accessible Icon Fonts
- When To Use The Button Element