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  1. Cat sulking castle

    When we bought this slide, we thought it was for our Daughter to enjoy.

    Turns out we actually bought our cat, Dora, a sulking castle...

    A black cat sitting on a children's box slide, sulking

  2. UX tip on mouse event timeouts

    ℹ️ UX Tip permalink

    If you're making a whole element clickable, like say, a card: consider creating some sort of timer on 'mousedown' that is reset on 'mouseup'. This means that you can see if the timer has run past a threshold and block the action on 'click'.

    One reason you would do this is to allow content in that card to be selectable without the click handler firing off and disrupting the action.

    Demo: https://codepen.io/hankchizljaw/details/wEWNKe

  3. Is marketing turning into surveillance?

    A thought that I can’t get out of my head recently is that “marketing” on the web is actually just surveillance. Especially in purchase and checkout flows.

    Whenever I've worked with companies in recent years, there seems to be an endless budget for tracking services, but a much smaller budget for actual UX, design and research.

    I'm just riffing here, but surely a better marketing technique is a good, helpful product or service?