Setting up your presentations, skeptical designers, push notifications — and more UX this week

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

The importance of setting up your design work before presenting it →

Successful design reviews have less to do with the specific design decisions you are presenting, and more to do with aligned expectations between what colleagues think they will see and what they actually see in that session.

• Harmful HCI →
  When is Human-Centered Design harmful?
• Comparison UX →
  3 design tips for user-friendly ‘compare’ tools.
• Position: Absolute →
  Optimizing design and dev with web UI tools.

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Stories from the community

Why Facebook, Medium, and other companies don’t ask for your design degree →
By Stan Reimgen

Skeptical designers are good designers →
By Michael McWatters

Stop overcomplicating your personas, start prototyping more →
By UX Deer

More top stories:

• Five things to look out for when hiring a designer →
  By Reinoud Schuijers
• Avoiding diminishing returns in the product design process →
  By David Portelli
• Figma in the classroom →
  By Meylin Bayryamali
• The subtle technique that Mailchimp uses to emotionally hook customers →
  By Sumit Hegde
• Design validation mathematics →
  By Dzmitry Basenka
• Don’t feel bad, user test your competitors →
  By Daniël De Wit
• Should motion design guidelines appear in Design Systems? →
  By Adir SL

News & ideas

• Product vs. Feature →
  A thoughtful article on product vs. feature teams.
• Large Devices →
  Why users do important tasks on larger screens.
• Dumb Passwords →
  A twitter acct that reports dumb password rules.
• Less Data Isn’t Bad →
  Users with Save-Data enabled don’t deserve a lesser UX.

Featured work: Alexander Shmelev →

Tools & resources

• Logos in Figma →
  Plugin to bring company logos into Figma.
• Pushing Too Hard →
  A guide to not f#!@ing up push notifications.
  By Stéphanie Walter
• Eagle →
  A design library to get you 10x better organized.
• Your Tempo →
  Yet another email client claims to help you focus.