Link roundup 25/7/14

Dave Briggs

25 July 2014

Here is what your friendly dxwers have been reading and sharing recently.

• 4 Steps For Combining The Hacker Way With Design Thinking
  Forced constraints / separate processes for pinpointing problems and solutions / story boarding the user experience / independence
• How Snow White Helped Airbnb’s Mobile Mission
  Using storyboarding to develop a service.
• Drop-downs are the ui of last resort
  All too often mobile forms make use of drop-down menus for input when simpler, more appropriate controls would work better. Here’s a few alternatives.
  
• Can a few well chosen words improve inclusivity?
  How changing the wording of a job ad increased the number of female applicants.
• What’s the design process at GDS?
  “We’re making a Thing, not pictures of a Thing.“