Uber’s UX Layoffs, Amazon Dating, #NoCode Storybook — and more links this week
A weekly selection of design links, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective.
- Design Swimming →
The design systems we swim in. - UX Writing Mocks →
Why is it important to mock up words? - Refreshing Chrome →
The work behind Chrome’s biggest revamp yet.
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Stories from the community
Are we ready to abandon the desktop metaphor? →
By Rubens Cantuni
UX 101: understanding Norman Doors →
By Tania Vieira
5 things UX Researchers can do differently: a reflection after Uber’s layoffs →
By Elsa Ho
More top stories:
- Consistency the killer
By Pascal Barry - 10 things that indicate designers have no clue about accessibility
By Sheri Byrne-Haber - I redesigned the infamous IOWA App in 30 minutes
By Michal Malewicz - Fixing Dark Patterns: making Google search ads visible again
By Mack Grenfell - Is it too late to get into UX in 2020?
By Rebekah Champa - Interview with Hector Ouilhet, Head of Design for Google Search
By Emi Knight - Understanding UX in video games: the diegesis theory
By Edoardo Galati
News & ideas
- Unionizing Instacart →
Workers voted to unionize for better conditions. - Parkinson’s Type →
A Parkinson’s typeface that degrades over time. - Neumorphism.io →
Generate soft (and inaccessible) UI CSS code. - Amazon Dating →
Loneliness is on sale.
Tools & resources
- Cloud Inspector →
Sketch’s new browser-based dev handoff tool. - NoCode Storybook →
Good old Storybook, without the command line. - Design Lint →
Figma plugin that fixes your design mistakes. - CSS Positioning →
A class/demo to finally understand CSS positioning.
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