Hot potato process, accessible colors, shattered design dreams — and more UX this week

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

• Hot Potato Process →
  Ideas passed quickly back and forth from designer to developer.
• Worst Cases →
  Why we’re thinking about worst-case scenarios the wrong way.
• Accessible Colors →
  The Stripe team on how to design accessible color systems.

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Stories from the community

Let me shatter that design-dream of yours →
By Reinoud Schuijers

Design and the art of motorcycle maintenance →
By Kit Oliynyk

Dribbble shots can make you a worse UI designer →
By David Portelli

More top stories:

• What does it mean to be a resilient designer? →
  By Christina Bruce
• Open Doodles →
  By Pablo Stanley
• An evolutionary approach to designing →
  By Maksym Chervynskyi
• How to work better and faster — listen to the same song on repeat all day long →
  By Jeffrey Bates
• Time to solve the great cookie crisis →
  By Michal Malewicz
• Stop obsessing over user personas →
  By Jeremiah Lam
• 10 mistakes I made starting out as a UI designer →
  By Danny Sapio

News & ideas

• Soli by Google →
  Miniature radar that understands human motions.
• Visually Distorted →
  When symmetrical UI looks all wrong.
• AI Pub →
  How facial recognition is used in a London pub.
• Figma Brand →
  How the Figma team landed its evolved look.

Featured Work: Margot Lévêque →

Tools & resources

• Descript →
  Edit podcast audio by editing text.
• SVG Converter →
  Convert SVG absolute clip-path to relative.
• Maccy App →
  Clipboard manager keeps copy history at hand.
• Mochi Cards →
  Make flashcards using markdown, for learning.

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