"Agile was never about frameworks. It was about outcomes. The best teams don’t just run agile. They treat the process itself as a product, something to be tested, refined, and iterate[d]" https://blog.logrocket.com/product-management/agile-checkbox-exercise-how-to-get-unstuck/

A primer on #JavaScript optional chaining where you can "avoid those pesky runtime errors when accessing deeply nested properties" #WebDevelopment https://allthingssmitty.com/2025/06/02/write-more-reliable-javascript-with-optional-chaining/

"This article revisits our early hamburger-menu findings, shares research about the recognizability of the hamburger today, and offers visual-design best practices for the hamburger icon." #ux #design https://www.nngroup.com/articles/hamburger-menu-icon-recognizability/

"...retention is about much more than just if users come back to your product or not. Let’s dig deeper." https://blog.logrocket.com/product-management/define-product-retention-metric-guide/

"...building the [design] system was the easy part. Getting people to care about it? That’s the real work. And that’s where building relationships comes in." #DesignSystem #UX https://uxdesign.cc/the-politics-of-design-systems-cdfd0c850897

"Great UX doesn’t happen in isolation. It takes conversations with engineers, alignment with product, sales, and other stakeholders, as well as the ability to listen, adapt, and co-create." #Teamwork https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/06/collaboration-most-underrated-ux-skill/

Notes on creating a design system - "...great designs failed when implementation was an afterthought, while strategic rollouts succeeded regardless of aesthetic ambition." #DesignSystem https://uxdesign.cc/i-tried-three-ways-to-ship-a-design-system-heres-what-actually-worked-313228ca8e69

'Driven by the same motives and curious about people’s feelings about “vibe coding”, I asked a simple question: How does the term “Vibe Coding” make you feel?' #AI #SoftwareDevelopment https://uxdesign.cc/what-professionals-really-think-about-vibe-coding-e209345e56cd

To improve future project timeline estimates, "it’s crucial to keep precise records of the time spent on every task so that the data is available later." #ProductManagement https://uxdesign.cc/estimating-time-for-complex-projects-71ae8cb4ab2e

"I’ve realized lately that I wish for us all to become less concerned with being perfect and more concerned with developing our unique voice and following our own intuition." https://uxdesign.cc/from-artificial-to-authentic-baede964bfec

"WCAG standards are dense, and it takes time to incorporate them into your UX design process. But there are strategies you can start using now to meet most of the requirements to comply with the EAA [European Accessibility Act]" https://uxdesign.cc/ready-or-not-the-eaa-is-here-d9589dfac2fc

"...six CSS frameworks and libraries that were either released or gained traction after 2024. These tools can help you move faster, build cleaner interfaces, and deliver on tight deadlines." #WebDevelopment https://blog.logrocket.com/top-6-css-frameworks-2025/

How to animate showing a dialog moving on a curved path using just #html and #css (with a #JavaScript fallback) #WebDevelopment https://frontendmasters.com/blog/move-modal-in-on-a-shape/

"People don’t avoid reading your product documentation because they’re lazy. They avoid it because it wasn’t written for them. It was written to be written." https://blog.logrocket.com/product-management/why-no-one-reads-your-product-docs-how-to-fix-it/

"A small project with immediate impact is almost always better than a large-scale project that takes years." #ux #design #product https://uxdesign.cc/building-it-once-how-to-succeed-in-tying-design-decisions-to-business-outcomes-0b4b0817d386

"When choosing between monorepos and polyrepos, the right choice depends on whether you’re optimizing for integration or independence." #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareArchitecture https://blog.logrocket.com/monorepos-vs-polyrepos-which-one-fits-your-use-case/

"So we want to set up a new design system for your product. How do we get it up and running from scratch? Do we start with key stakeholders, UI audits, or naming conventions? And what are some of the critical conversations we need to have early to avoid problems down the line?" https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/05/design-system-in-90-days/

Thoughts on solving a #CSS question - nested lists of a legal/government style containing parenthesis, with alternating style types. #WebDevelopment https://css-tricks.com/a-readers-question-on-nested-lists/

Make console text stick out with colors and other formatting with #Node, plus a background on ANSI escape sequences. #JavaScript https://2ality.com/2025/05/ansi-escape-sequences-nodejs.html

Do async standups / scrums make sense for your team? Read conclusions found from an experiment. #Agile https://blog.logrocket.com/product-management/async-standups-pros-cons/