Designing at Google, Tables in Figma, Ecommerce Checklist — and more UX this week

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

• Screen Time →
  Björn Jeffery in defense of screen time.
• Bad Money →
  Having the guts to say no to bad money.
• Job Satisfaction →
  Designers’ satisfaction is plummeting. Why?

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Stories from the community

Designing at Google: 10 things I know to be true →
By Kenny Chen

UX has bad UX →
By Michal Malewicz

Turn the lights off: designing for dark mode →
By Briandito Priambodo

More top stories:

• I don’t want to be friends with computers; I don’t want it to tell me jokes →
  By Aprajita
• Should product designers rely on intuition or data? →
  By Sam Enoka
• Building products that grow on people →
  By Prachi Nain
• Stop relying on gut decisions and define your principles →
  By Quinn Keast
• How Disney+ onboards new users — a UX analysis →
  By Sander Smeekes
• How do children reformulate questions? →
  By Marc Ericson Santos, PhD
• Making products that hook your user’s brain →
  By Romario Eichlig

News & ideas

• Twitch Rebrand →
  It’s all fun and games until it’s all fun and games.
• Variable Fonts →
  Variable fonts & the new Google Fonts API.
• UX of Porn →
  How porn sites are designed for the money shot.
• Humanity (Game) →
  Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s new game was officially announced this week.

Featured work: Leonhard Laupichler →

Tools & resources

• Social Sizes →
  Sketch templates for social media assets.
• Tables in Figma →
  Creating a table for scalability using components.
• Ecomm Checklist →
  Building a direct to consumer e-commerce.
• Unmoderated User Testing →
  Selecting the right tool for unmoderated user testing.

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