The UX of Among Us, chaos in design, dead chatbots
Your weekly list of curated design resources, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective.
Question everything.
- Gamification →
Are we really enhancing or just manipulating? - Bad design →
Never-published article by Alan Cooper, 2002.
By Alan Cooper - COVID denial →
How cognitive biases can perpetuate denial.
By Carolynn Johnson, Ph.D.
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Top stories this week
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From tasks to tricks: the UX of Among Us →
By Christian Paneda
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An intro to object-oriented UX and how to do it →
By Lindsay Eryn
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10 directions to take your UX career →
By Danny Sapio
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Make it fun: chaos in Product Design →
By Gabriel Valdivia
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UI cheat sheet: The 5 love languages of the web →
By Tess Gadd
More stories:
- Livestream UX: explorations on threads and replies
By Ryan Hatch - Who are we excluding through our reliance on tech during COVID-19?
By Gabi Mitchem-Evans - Your first attempt at making anything accessible will be awful
By Sheri Byrne-Haber, CPACC - 7 (more) tips to quickly improve your UIs
By Marc Andrew - Flushing mistrust in tech
By Catriona Campbell
News & ideas
- Is this real life? →
How social media made conspiracy addictive. - Time traveler →
Which words were added when you were born? - My chatbot is dead →
Why yours should probably be too.
By Adrian Zumbrunnen
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Tools & resources
- Good line height →
Easily calculate it to fit the baseline grid. - Echo chat →
Voice messaging for teams, auto transcribed. - Responsive height →
Testing things vertically.
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