Michael Gearon

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Senior Interaction Designer and Co-Author to Tiny CSS Projects
Websitehttps://mgearon.com/links.html
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Michael GearonJun 18, 2023
Manning PublicationsJun 15, 2023

How do you do that in CSS?

@michaelgearon, co-author of Tiny CSS Projects is doing an AMA to answer all your questions on how to use CSS properties and values, such as flexbox, grid, typography and more.

Send questions in advance or ask a question live and you’ll also be in for a chance to win an eBook copy of Tiny CSS Projects: http://mng.bz/JgRZ

#CSS #webdev @martine_dowden

AMA with Micheal Gearon, author of Tiny CSS Projects - Manning

Michael Gearon author of Tiny CSS Projects Ask Me Anything! at r/CSS on Reddit 12 PM ET, May 23 Manning is delighted to welcome Michael Gearon for an Ask Me Anything on June 22 at 10AM ET (3 pm GMT)... Continue Reading →

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Michael GearonJan 3, 2023
Had a horrible experience of a “dark UX pattern” over Christmas. A yearly subscription was up for renewal. The first reminder was when they tried to automatically take payment, no reminder beforehand. Went to cancel, found out that you can only cancel if you call them. Given it was Christmas the call centres were shut for a few days. They tried again to take payment, it failed, then they sent out an aggressive automated email to say I must pay. Definitely what not to do if you care about users
Michael GearonJan 3, 2023
10% coconut water with a splash of some flavourings has gone wild in the UK under the brand name Prime with people spending upwards of £1,000 for a pack of drinks over Christmas. Definitely one of the effects driving this crazy spiral is bandwagon effect, with people being swept up in this social media hype, even with some saying the taste isn't actually that good! https://medium.com/@michaelgearon/cognitive-biases-social-proof-the-bandwagon-effect-42aa07781fcc #psychology
Cognitive Biases — The Bandwagon Effect - Michael Gearon - Medium

The bandwagon effect occurs when people do, believe or say something because they see other people are doing it (so it must be right), despite the fact that it might not line up with their their own…

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Michael GearonDec 27, 2022
“Safari's date-picker is the cause of 1/3 of our customer support issues” - not surprising! An all-in-one selector of dates and times is a difficult challenge to solve https://gist.github.com/RobertAKARobin/850a408e04d5414e67d308a2b5847378 #ui #design
Safari's date-picker is the cause of 1/3 of our customer support issues

Safari's date-picker is the cause of 1/3 of our customer support issues - safari.md

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Show threadMichael GearonDec 27, 2022
And this is why it’s actually fine procrastinate or have that odd habit and not be that consistent
Michael GearonDec 27, 2022
Michael GearonDec 27, 2022
It’s the start of the influx of thread posts on how to stop procrastinating, forming better habits, things you should be doing, being more consistent with coding/writing/doing something
Michael GearonDec 27, 2022
It’s the start of the influx of thread posts on how to stop procrastinating, forming better habits, things you should be doing, being more consistent with coding/writing/doing something
Michael GearonDec 15, 2022
Today is the official end-of-life for Atom Code Editor. I switched from Sublime to Atom quite a few years ago, now I’ve switched to Visual Studio Code as my go to code editor. It definitely feels like there are less and less good text editors now
Michael GearonDec 1, 2022
The extreme panic of editing a couple of live lines of CSS on your personal website and the whole website breaks just to remind yourself only 1 or 2 users may see the issue before it’s resolved
Michael GearonNov 19, 2022
Caroline JarrettNov 19, 2022

“Stop using no-reply email addresses”
New blog post from me, in which I rant about why no-reply email addresses are a bad idea (and, more constructively, offer some suggestions about what to do when they are unavoidable)
#ux #conversion #ContentDesign #email #customercare

https://www.effortmark.co.uk/stop-using-no-reply-email-addresses/

Stop using no-reply email addresses - Effortmark

No-reply email addresses cut off contact with your customers. Avoid them - or if you can't, design your email to help customers contact you some other way.

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