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Flutter Desktop

Project that includes spare desktop widgets was quite nice to find today.
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The Best Flutter Steppers and Swipeable Card Packages

Page Slider

Not null-safety ready but simple and easy

Carousel Slider

This has much of the function needed.

Cool Stepper

Forms oriented and informative approach.

Swiping Card Deck

This solution is more tinder-like.

Appinio Swiper

All about the movement and one undo level.

Swipeable Card Stack

Has the vertical angle.

Card Swiper

More like a carousel

Swipe Deck

Like a deck of cards.

Flicked Cards

This one is extra fancy

If you happen to be in a “stepping” mood, these articles are useful:

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CASES: Core Attributes of Superior Enterprise Software

I’ve been thinking about LEAD and how it helps define consumer experiences. And in the enterprise software space, I needed to have a different instrument to sum up the non-experiential aspects as a starting point. So this post is the first draft of what I’m referring to as “CASES” as a starting point for the future:

  • Comprehensive: “Does so many kinds of things.” (breadth) or “Does that one thing flawlessly.” (depth)
    alt: Collaborative: “We work together remotely.”
  • Adaptive: “Evolves over time.”
    Smart, Intelligent, Versioned, Automated.
  • Secure: “Got your back.”
    Reliable, Supportive, Private, Accountable.
  • Extensible: “Future proof.”
    Flexible, Connectable, Augmentable.
  • Sustainable: “Guilt free.”
    Responsible, Considered, Auditable.

This is a v 0.1 and I’m curious if I’ll come back to it in the future. Let’s see. Oh weird, the title for this post also spells CASES. I guess that means this might stick for me. LOL. —JM

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Silent Reading and Writing Instead of Meeting

A few on-premise companies have a practice where everyone spends time working in a document in which they can collaboratively edit and comment. And THEN they have a discussion. This is an effective task to engage many people all together — versus letting the loudest voices in the room take over the meeting.

In a world where meetings are happening more often with video, this is an important and inclusive consideration today. —JM

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For Developers Learning Design

There are a few resources that I’ve found useful to teach developers about design.

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Dev-as-Marketing

From my blog post, “Charles Gross on Product Marketing and Dev-as-Marketing (2013)”


I watched this YT video via the YT rec engine this morning. It is way back in 2013 from a Google Ventures startup gathering in SV the same year that I landed there — so I wish I saw this live!

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Design and Developer Partnerships

I did an interview with Rachel Been that posted over here. —JM


Rachel Been: Designers are often labeled as dreamers, and developers as pragmatists. What’s at the root of this shorthand?

John Maeda: I think the education system has created this dichotomy. While studying at MIT, I had the engineer’s problem of being able to build anything, but not knowing what to build. It was only after attending art school—and discovering what to build—that I could combine the two. It takes a developer who’s gone to the design side to appreciate what engineering can be, and it takes a designer who understands that the “religion” they were taught is slightly incorrect, because it was conceived when there weren’t high-end computational systems. If you think of designing a chair out of wood, that religion still works fine, because that’s something that creates a great chair. However, if you’re making something on the computer, that religion has to adapt and change.

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We Always Go Back

I recall noticing when I was younger that folks who go across many fields tend to go back to their home field when they get older. Hmmmm. I wonder if that’s what’s happening to me? —JM

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Hello World

Hi there, This is YAB (Yet Another Blog) I’m starting. It’s using a vintage, six-year old WordPress theme by a friend of mine. —JM

I like this speed score …
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Designing Inertia in Distributed Work and “Phavatars”

Kim Scott once told me a story of how they’d drink a beer together during a Google hangout across timezones. When I was at Automattic, I recall having people check-in with their meal of choice. It all makes me wonder if there’s a world of phavatars — physical avatars to create persistence and accountability.

What’s the BFD if you’re not a remote team? I strongly suggest that IRL teams use virtual sticky-noting technologies when they’re together just because it’s faster and because it scales so fluidly. Also you have the shared artifact always available to you for later use. And throw in some virtual food if you need to, like me. —JM