Extenuating Circumstances

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for March 29th from 18:58 to 00:23:

• Time to Take Back Email – Rands in Repose – I switched from Gmail to (paid) Fastmail a while back and I'm happy with it.
• Face is not the Future – strat?chery by Ben Thompson –
• Roku CEO: Apple TV is a money-loser – CNET – Either he knows he's making shit up and thinks people will fall for it, in which case he's a fool, or you've got a CEO who has no idea how Apple's business works or indeed what a BOM looks like
• GDS design principles –
• User-centered design in alpha and beta — Government Service Design Manual –
• User-centered design — Government Service Design Manual –
• “Designing emerging tech at human scale”- Erik Dahl at #IAS14 –
• “Designing for a more forgiving ‘Quantified Self’” – Miles Rochford at #IAS14 –
• Aussie Builders Surprise Women With Loud Empowering Statements – Video – This 'builders shouting feminist statements' video- interesting. Not least because it's apparently an ad for snickers