A/B fails, Figma community, awesome plugins — and more design links this week

A weekly selection of design links, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective.

All them A/B tests that never happened →
When A/B tests become less about user validation and more about having a escape hatch for lack of product vision.

• UI Learnability →
  How to measure learnability of a user interface.
• No Dropdowns →
  The issue with dropdowns & what to use instead.
• Accessible Buttons →
  Building icon buttons with masks and SVG.

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Stories from the community

How I used decision tree to decide what’s next after college →
By Nikhil Yadav

Does Instagram make bad navigation good? →
By Michal Malewicz

10 time-savers that I use daily as a UI designer →
By Danny Sapio

More top stories:

• A case against “pixel perfect” design →
  By Chuánqí Sun
• Designing with memory in mind →
  By Dale Owen
• AI is the UX (is it, though?) →
  By Chris Noessel
• A deep dive into the Surface Duo’s virtual keyboard →
  By Christian Cantrell
• Getting the right feedback, and managing priorities →
  By Shu Jiang
• 6 tactics to maximize UX research in Agile →
  By Kuppy T.
• A mini-guide to font combinations →
  By Cameron Chapman

News & ideas

• Figma Community →
  Publish live design files that anyone in the world.
• Earth Overview →
  Imagery on how human activity shapes our Earth.
• One-Page Dungeon →
  Programmatically-generated RPG maps.
• Age of Nonsense →
  Living fully? That’s pseudo-profound nonsense.

Featured work: Actually Studio →

Tools & resources

• Awesome Plugins →
  Best plugins for Sketch, XD, Figma, in one place.
• Human Words →
  Plain language words for sounding more human.
• Sketch Styler →
  Auto assign styles to all of your un-styled layers.
• Usability Posters →
  Usability heuristics in free posters for your office.

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