Antijustified day, kinetic type, the ugly of A/B testing — and more UX this week

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

Lots of youtube lives could be a tweet.

• On writing →
  Can writing make me a better designer?
• Cumulative shift →
  Avoiding sudden layout shifts in UX.
• Dark patterns →
  How to convince others not to use them.

The UX Collective newsletter is an ad-free newsletter read by over 134,900 designers every week. Curated by Fabricio Teixeira and Caio Braga.

Stories from the community

I am the user; I am not the user →
By Michael McWatters

The good, the bad and the ugly of A/B testing →
By Andy Budd

20 psychological principles applied to product design →
By Lucas Didier

Top stories this week:

• Neumorphism, visual accessibility, and empathy →
  By Tammy Taabassum
• Why the Bauhaus lives on as the most influential design school →
  By Michelle Chiu
• A new concept for usable touch interaction in cars →
  By Casper Kessels
• The 8 levels of focus for building successful products →
  By Alana Brajdic
• The lying eye and its accomplice →
  By Andres Zapata
• 8 deeper truths of working from home — what all the tips aren’t telling you →
  By Benek Lisefski
• How to use desk research to kick-start your design process →
  By Teisanu Tudor

News & ideas

• Antijustified day →
  An international celebration, May 8th every year.
• Kinetic type →
  A 36-day typographic experiment.
• Icon system →
  Developing open-source icons at Microsoft. By Joline Tang.
• Tech adoption →
  How new tech is adopted year by year in the US.

Featured work: Bittar →

Tools & resources

• Chair times →
  Full doc about chair design, available for free.
• Micro-typography →
  How to space and kern punctuation marks.
• Blush →
  Unsplash, but for illustrations.
• Octopus →
  A lightning-fast visual sitemap builder.

We believe designers are thinkers as much as they are makers. So we created the design newsletter we have always wanted to receive.