Isolation Postcards, Dark Mode Hub, UI Cheat Sheet — and more UX this week
A weekly selection of design links, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective.
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- Design Risk →
Mitigating risk and better serving customers. - Youtube Sans →
The making of a tailor-made typeface. - Remote Usability →
The key to good remote moderated testing.
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Nothing is designed better than a toothpick →
By Michael McWatters
UI cheat sheet: radio buttons, checkboxes, and selectors →
By Tess Gadd
The time for Environment-Centered Design has come →
By Monika Sznel
Top stories this week:
- 10 soft skills for designers →
By Danny Sapio - Design Principles for real-time captions in video calls →
By Quinn Keast - The emotional design manifesto →
By Diana Malewicz - A human approach to the 1,000-floor elevator challenge →
By Paola Ascanio - Building a research mindset: when cheat-sheets are not enough →
By Andra - Silent design critiques: making your design team more effective →
By Liam Carter-Hawkins - Will AI take over UX? →
By Michal Malewicz - Pain-point discrepancy →
By Lauri Lukka
News & ideas
- Isolation Postcards →
How life has changed on lockdown. - All Look the Same →
Science confirms that websites all look the same. - World Copy+Paste →
Copy with your phone using augmented reality. - Zoom Backgrounds →
Well-furnished video call backgrounds, by Ikea.
Tools & resources
- Easings.Co →
Test common easing curves on real interfaces. - Design Level Up →
5 exercises to level up your design skills, by Elaine Tran. - System Questions →
Qs to make Design Systems work, by Brad Frost. - Dark Mode Hub →
Collection of websites designed for dark mode.
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