Meta’s decision, 4 pillars of content design, GenAI color harmony, quantitative personas

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.

“Dear Mark,

Unfortunately, when you’ve claimed the word ‘meta’ from our lexicon and then you announce that you’ve done a bad job deciding what’s right so you’ve decided to stop deciding what’s right — but you get that decision wrong — , we’re out of words to describe the irony.”

Meta: you can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube →

Editor picks

• Meta and Spotify’s AI takeover →
  Is this the end of human-created content?
  By Angele Lenglemetz
• The obscure side of Honey →
  Deceptive tricks turned a savings tool into a trust trap.
  By Marcus Fleckner
• Seeing what nobody else can →
  Understanding competitive advantage.
  By Helge Tennø

The UX Collective is an independent design publication that elevates unheard design voices and helps designers think more critically about their work.

Stimulation clicker →

Make me think

• Whither dashboard design? →
  “Every dashboard is a sunk cost. Every dashboard is an answer to some long-forgotten question. Every dashboard is an invitation to pattern-match the past instead of interrogate the present. Every dashboard gives the illusion of correlation. Every dashboard dampens your thinking.”
• Automated accessibility testing at Slack →
  “Automated tools can overlook nuanced accessibility issues that require human judgment, such as screen reader usability. Additionally, these tools can also flag issues that don’t align with the product’s specific design considerations.”
• Are we at peak shittiness? →
  “I switched from an Apple Watch to a mechanical watch for that reason (one less battery to charge!), and bought a simple nightstand alarm clock that doesn’t need an app, doesn’t have a screen, a Wi-Fi connection, or an unremovable battery.”

Little gems this week

Human flourishing in the age of AI →
By Josh LaMar (He/Him)

The four pillars model of content design →
By Andrew Tipp

What are the big opportunities to make an impact in 2025? →
By Yaron Cohen

Tools and resources

• Quantitative personas with latent class analysis →
  Facilitating the creation of statistical personas.
  By Talieh Kazemi
• GenAI and the tetrad color harmony →
  Unanimous consensus among three chatbots.
  By Theresa-Marie Rhyne
• The art of storytelling and persuasion →
  A designer’s guide.
  By Abby Aker

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