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The design architect is a champion for human-digital engagement. They have the responsibility to establish a sustainable and equitable balance between a system’s owner and its users with solid workflow and governance practices. And they must care for and find ways to measure and evaluate the health of their digital experience architectures.

U.S. companies such as DuPont and General Motors moved from a functional to a multidivisional structure in the early 20th century. By the latter half of the century the vast majority of large corporations had followed suit. Apple proves that this conventional approach is not necessary and that the functional structure may benefit companies facing tremendous technological change and industry upheaval.

Its fundamental belief is that those with the most expertise and experience in a domain should have decision rights for that domain. This is based on two views: First, Apple competes in markets where the rates of technological change and disruption are high, so it must rely on the judgment and intuition of people with deep knowledge of the technologies responsible for disruption.

Will your code work with assistive technologies?

If you've ever wondered whether a particular song qualifies as Yacht Rock, you're in the right place! Yacht or Nyacht is a collection of songs rated on the Yachtski Scale, a scientific measurement of musical yacht-ness created by the originators of the term 'Yacht Rock'.

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Competitiveness is evidently one of the many sources of his creativity, albeit competitiveness of a patient, five-day-test-match kind. He worries quite a lot about the amount of time he spends writing and revising a play. ‘If the next gap is as long as the last one,’ he said in 2017, ‘I will be 103 and no doubt ready with blue pencil and blue-black ink as usual.’ Let’s hope so.

Quality stems from and is proven by an implemented testing plan by which components are inspected prior to release. This article describes criteria and tools for testing components and how to order making them at a high level to help teams plan.

Hydrogen has an efficiency problem. You need to convert other forms of energy to hydrogen at a loss. Then you need to store it and transport it, which is costly and may impose quite some energy cost for cooling or compression. Then you need to convert it back to electricity, also at a loss. If you start at electricity, the electrical grid and batteries would be much more efficient. If you start at oil or gas, you could use convention ICEs and get comparable overall efficiencies. For them transport and delivery is a solved problem.

Fewer than I'd expected :(

A different take to the 2016 version.

During test-driven development we write tests to verify that features conform to desired business outcomes; with fitness function-driven development we can also write tests that measure a system’s alignment to architectural goals.

That early work on Adaptive Design has already done the hard digging of finding reference points and developing frameworks to guide product design for adaptation - it’s the anti Apple, the anti Amazon, the anti DRM. I’d love to for designers to share their ideas for future adaptable iPhones and adaptable apps, expand the discourse, and pushing back on the status quo. Adaptive Design is a movement worth reviving in 2020.

A React performance exploration with interesting stats and pointers.