• Silicon Valley Decides It’s Just Too Hard to Build a Car undisruptable, or self-disrupting... cannot decide. But pick one.

• https://medium.com/@odannyboy/the-myth-of-invisible-design-c67d590babe9#.jvosbbkk6

• http://fortune.com/2016/10/28/internet-use-mobile/ data, but best is that approaching 75% of all Internet traffic going to our between mobile. Remember when it was 50%, when it was 10%?

• https://www.1843magazine.com/features/the-scientists-who-make-apps-addictive?utm_content=buffer679ec&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer interesting rules for approaching design from a behaviorist pov, but also some scary ethics points.

• http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20161116005308/en/Report-Shows-720x1280-Smartphone-Screen-Resolution best of the numbers (because who cares about resolution) "Samsung Browser is now the third most used mobile browser worldwide, after Safari and Chrome Mobile"

• http://www.superlinguo.com/post/153441950023/what-do-emoji-sound-like What do emoji sound like?

• http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2016/11/q3-smartphone-market-numbers-top-10-brands-os-wars-installed-base-oh-and-our-brief-smartphone-market.html Tomi report time! World has 2.8B smartphones in use today. Android 80%, iOS 19%. Others 1%... and Android outselling iOS as before. Apple sales are flat, while market growth continues. iOS on track to be as important as macOS.

• Fast Path to a Great UX — Increased Exposure Hours Go see users, every 6 weeks, everyone. Not just designers...

• Don’t say what you think, but do what you feel I guess I am removed enough from the ad world I missed David Ogilvy saying long ago "The problem with market research is that people don't think how they feel, they don't say what they think and they don't do what they say." This article... Meh! But the quote is awesome!

• text and video - We are scientists. Believe it!

• Winced my way through this article against progressive enhancement The Case Against Progressive Enhancement's Flimsy Moral Foundation Winced harder when I saw myself quoted Twitter thread with many fun responses -- Also this rebuttal https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/insert-clickbait-headline-about-progressive-enhancement-here/

• http://www.pewinternet.org/2016/12/07/information-overload/ I have long thought very little of the many tech self help hurts who insist we're all overwhelmed with information and technology. Why do we keep buying such devices then? Well, it's broadly untrue. 80% prefer their information.

• http://ethics.acm.org/2018-code-draft-1/ ... Discuss some specifics like not misrepresenting yourself.

• http://a11yproject.com/posts/understanding-vestibular-disorders/ - 35% of americans over 40 have one, so stop your parallax, etc.

• [[https://t.co/vGih7KJeWX https://t.co/rnZHzXyOju

(https://twitter.com/tomiahonen/status/816246877544804352?s=03)]] if everyone had the same phone, it would be pretty lame... what are you designing for?

Notes: Look up design ethos (simple vs decorative) and try to find why the women's pavilion used the Qing (simple) and men's used the Ming. Add to flat design maybe. Not all rooted in Swiss modernism maybe!