From helping an interaction feel more responsive, or personal, to crafting notification tones that try not to annoy, to adding greater depth to your brands identity … there’s a lot that crafted sounds can brings to our work.

Jonathan Courtney puts forward an argument for not using your up-front research as too much of a crutch, you still need to be making assumptions, building something, testing it, and iterating based on real user feedback.

Or, the web is in a state, really. Karolina Szczur provides a well put guide to impactful performance improvements. There are so many available options to help us improve.

We can always rely on the NNGroup to sober us up. Have a look through their ultimately unsurprising but well articulated and conditional findings on flat UI elements.

What we do can make a big difference and differences can come with consequences. What are we comfortable with? A worthy consideration for any industry and it’s individual craftsfolk.

There are lots of important questions in our line of work and it’s important to know that we’re asking the right ones. Fabricio Teixeira uncovers the biggest questions out there on UX, Usability and Interaction Design. He also uses the word ‘zeitgeist’, so 10pts to Gryffindor.