Ballots UX, Figma variants, designing fast food

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Design isn’t always pretty.

• Branding QAnon →
  The Instagram aesthetic that made it popular.
• Social Dilemma →
  5 things the documentary forgot to mention. By Sophie Taylor.
• Ballots UX →
  What ballots can teach us about UX writing. By Lauren Jessen.

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Stop evaluating Product Designers like we’re Visual Designers →
By Tait Wayland

This is NOT collaboration →
By Michal Malewicz

Rethinking the design of race and ethnicity surveys →
By Sara Clayton

More top stories:

• Newtonian interfaces →
  By Taner Olcay
• Food allergies: when search UX becomes dangerous →
  By Anna E. Cook (she/her)
• The accidental tyranny of user interfaces →
  By Oliver Meredith Cox
• Create a weather app UI with 3D-like illustrations →
  By Diana Malewicz
• Interaction metaphors →
  By Mark Brenchley

Collective update: the unique illustrations of Shreya Damle →

News & ideas

• Better computers →
  Great essay on making computers better.
• Copying →
  Is that the way design works?
• Audio principles →
  Converting visual design principles into audio. By Luke Manimala.
• Designing fast food →
  Great tutorial on food branding in The Simpsons.

Featured work: Weronika Marianna →

Tools & resources

• Tyrus →
  A digital toolkit for freelance illustrators.
• Layout projection →
  Animating browser layouts at 60fps.
• Figma variants →
  Bridging design and code with Variants.
• Phosphor icons →
  Flexible icon family for interfaces and diagrams.

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