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Brad Frost
Design Systems are for user interfaces4 min read · 2021-11-15 · We often talk about design systems as singular entities. "The design system saves time and increases quality." "Oh, the design system provides that." "Update to the latest version of the design…
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The design system embodies important standards from across an organization, but doesn’t necessarily define or own those standards.
Chrome Developers
Photoshop's journey to the web6 min read · 2021-10-26 · Over the last three years, Chrome has been working to empower web applications that want to push the boundaries of what's possible in the browser. One such web application has been Photoshop. The idea…
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Buttons vs. Links4 min read · 2021-10-08 · Should some links look like buttons, or should some buttons look like links? Twitter was all up in arms about this issue this week. Let’s take a look to see what these two UI elements are and what…
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Links are interactive elements that usually link to another document, for example: Click this link to go to Knowbility’s website. There is some additional functionality, like the ability to point to different frames in a “frame set” (yup, you can still do that!) or forcing a download of a file.  In essence, the link changes what the URL in the browser points to and the
UX Collective
Design lessons from the grim fate of the Segway8 min read · 2021-08-15 · The Segway failed because it solved no actual problems. Electric scooters and e-bikes are thriving, because they do
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If you create all that cutting-edge Segway balancing gear, you wind up with something so expensive it breaks the market.
Andy Budd
A Future of Design Without Designers?Reader View · Shared by 243, including Bernhard Huessy, Samarpita Roy
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This article looks at how the rise of generative design and AI software agents may make it easier for non traditional designers (execs, engineers and PMs) to affect design decisions. When this happens,  what does this mean for design as a distinct profession? 
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UX Collective
Giving, seeking, and receiving feedback in UX~15 min read · 2021-08-29 · Each individual is a universe of its own and each company or UX department has a set of unwritten rules. When you’re in doubt, the…
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Colors — Radix UI1 min read · 2021-07-01 · An open-source color system for designing beautiful, accessible websites and apps.
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Fast Company
Watching the Olympics has been a UX nightmare7 min read · 2021-08-04 · Broadcast monopolies have created the hellscape that is just trying to watch the Olympics.
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A List Apart
Designing for the Unexpected~15 min read · 2021-07-15 · As devices continue to diversify in dizzying ways, how can we make sure our work on the web stays as relevant as ever for the long haul? Cathy Dutton shares how practitioners must design for the un…
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Container queries have long been touted as an improvement upon media queries, but at the time of writing are unsupported in most browsers.
UX Collective
No, standardization doesn’t stifle creativity9 min read · 2021-08-02 · The maturation of UX isn’t making you an uncreative robot or replaceable commodity.
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Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)10 min read · 2021-08-13 · A free 24-hour online community event on accessibility and inclusion
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Every design decision has the power to either include or exclude people.
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The elements of product design2 min read · 2021-07-15 · A model explaining product design as a stack of decisions built on top of a stack of knowledge. With apologies to Jesse James Garrett.
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UX Collective
Why do people hate redesigns?9 min read · 2021-08-14 · Recently, Twitter unveiled a new design for its website and app, including a new font, higher-contrast colors, and less visual clutter…
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Everything was fine, the same as always. I hate it when you find a product you like that fits a particular need of yours, and then they change it.
Times Open
Product Design at the Pace of News~17 min read · 2021-07-16 · A Q&A with The New York Times Live design team.
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Marc Andrew
UI & UX Micro-Tips: Volume Seven.6 min read · 2021-07-21 · In this follow-up article I’ve brought you another selection of easy to put into practice UI & UX micro-tips.
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Always try to keep those messages short and to the point, and talk to the user in a voice they’ll easily understand.
Fast Company
Why bad design can actually be good10 min read · 2021-07-15 · Ken Carbone, Ayse Birsel, and Allan Chochinov discuss how bad design can prompt creative breakthroughs—and what even constitutes ‘bad design’ in the first place.
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