Command-and-control environments, Regenerative UX, Friction can be good, Balanced text wrapping

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Design in a command-and-control environments - More often than not we do great things not because we're told to, or get paid to do them, but because we feel the urge for these things to exist in the world. We want to execute our work in a specific way because quality is a sign of respect for what we do. - Dragan Babic / filed under Product Design

Regenerative UX - As the recent tech industry downturn lays claim to untold thousands of UXers - designers, researchers, writers, and such - a pervasive sense of unease seems to be settling in across the industry. - Alex Wright / filed under UX Design

Friction can be good - Something I have noticed as content, software, and product design have attempted to eradicate friction is that friction is not necessarily a bad thing. - Christopher Butler / filed under Product Design

Balanced text wrapping is coming to CSS - The CSS Working Group has recently published a new draft of the CSS Text Module Level 4 specification that introduces a new property called text-wrap that allows you to control the wrapping of text in a more granular way. - Amit Merchant / filed under HTML & CSS