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Advanced Figma tricks, Neobrutalism, UX sketching, the phases of research

Fabricio Teixeira — Sat, 02 Apr 2022 20:27:47 +0000

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Editors’ picks

UX and feed sack fabric. When your audience is not your audience.
AI = UX². When AI delivers a better user experience than designers.
Dotted lines. The 3rd dimension of the matrix organization.
UX sketching. What if you started your UX process away from a computer?
The phases of UX research. Keeping an eye on your product’s big picture.

FIDO (Feminism in Design Office) is an alliance between women and the design sector.

Make me think

How the world’s richest people are driving global warming. “There’s growing evidence that the inequality between rich and poor people’s emissions within countries now overwhelms the country-to-country disparities. In other words: High emitters have more in common across international boundaries, no matter where they call home.”
An incoherent rant about design systems. “The hard truth is this; your Figma docs should be treated like a sketch on the back of a napkin. It should be somewhat accurate but it’s a tool that reflects the front-end, but: it ain’t your design system.”
If we make a product work for anyone, it usually works better for everyone. “But focusing on those global users forces us to solve problems that are universal and build solutions that are so intuitive they work for anyone in the world — even though that focus also comes with limits, like not always taking advantage of the most recent hardware.”

Little gems this week

Neobrutalism is taking over the web →

The Infinite Scroll effect: how design can hack your brain →

Don’t rely only on tools to pick an accessible color combination →

Tools and resources

Substratum. Like Pinterest, for work stuff.
Color morph. Generate beautiful morph gradients with ease.
Advanced Figma tricks. The little hidden gems we love.

Toxic solutioning, form vs function, blurred vision

Fabricio Teixeira — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 13:22:18 +0000

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Design highlights in 2020 →

Celebrating and highlighting some of the most impactful projects and contributions to the design community.

Book of the year: A Civic Technologist’s Practice Guide
Blog of the year: The Architecture of Information
Game of the year: Baba is You

See all

The UX Collective is honored to have been recognized as the Best Design Publication of 2020 at the Brazil Design Awards. 💙

The results of the State of CSS survey are out, and the State of JS survey is now open.

The UX Collective is an independent design publication that elevates unheard design voices, reaching over 401,100 designers every week. Curated by Fabricio Teixeira and Caio Braga.

I disguised as an Instagram UX influencer for 4 months; this is what I learned →

By Teisanu Tudor

Form vs. function: when is it okay to be weird? →

By Jason Brush

The problem of toxic solutioning →

By Nathan Robinson

Do stories make social media more addictive? →

By Anna E. Cook

Learn like a scientist, think like a PM, work like a designer →

By Boon Yew Chew

More top stories:

News & ideas

Look to speak → Google’s tech lets you speak with your eyes.
Yahoo’s icons → Refining Yahoo’s weather icon suite.
Alternative maps → Intriguing maps that reveal alternate histories.
Going deeper → Non-obvious ways to have deeper conversations.

Tools & resources

Platform abuse → A guide for safer product development.
Octopus → Generate visual sitemap from any sites.
Awkward convo → A framework for having design conversations.
Blurred vision → Stark’s new burred vision simulator tool.

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PlayStation 5 UX flaw, Figma to video, make the logo smaller

Fabricio Teixeira — Sat, 28 Nov 2020 13:50:26 +0000

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Black Friday special: buy a successful design career with 30% off.

Creepy store → Shop products by how creepy they are.
Web vitals hype → The hype train on Gooogle’s Core Web Vitals.
Crossword who? → Who is being referenced in crossword puzzles.

The UX Collective is an independent design publication that elevates unheard design voices, reaching over 398,600 designers every week. Curated by Fabricio Teixeira and Caio Braga.

Glassmorphism in user interfaces →

By Michal Malewicz

The biggest UX flaw in PlayStation 5 →

By Kalpesh Prithyani

Why your designer won’t make the logo bigger →

By Reinoud Schuijers

More top stories:

News & ideas

AI faces → Do these people look familiar?
Type champions → Announcing Monotype’s 2020 type awards.
In-house brand → How we did an in-house rebrand in four months.
100 inventions → Time’s list with the best innovations of the year.

Featured work: Rajlaxmi Jain →

Tools & resources

Vimeo recorder → Video messaging for teams.
Vowel → Host, transcribe, search, share your meetings.
CSS panel → A better CSS visualization in Chrome DevTools.
Figma to video → Animate Figma designs and convert to MP4.

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New Instagram UI, bidirectional scrolling, Sketch macOS makeover

Fabricio Teixeira — Sat, 21 Nov 2020 13:52:24 +0000

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Time to rebuild.

Better society → To create a better society, by Don Norman.
Universal system → How AI will open up walled gardens, by Christian Cantrell.
Blame capitalism → Don’t just blame social media.

The UX Collective is an independent design publication that elevates unheard design voices, reaching over 397,400 designers every week. Curated by Fabricio Teixeira and Caio Braga.

Bidirectional scrolling: what’s not to like? →

By Adam Silver

Learning 3D as a product designer →

By Wayne Cen

Why some people aren’t happy with Instagram’s new UI →

By Michael J. Fordham

Designing algorithm-friendly interfaces →

By Maximillian Piras

Faces prime emotion and their gaze directs attention →

By Andres Zapata

More top stories:

News & ideas

Hand & brain → Applying lessons from chess into design.
New echo → Why Amazon radically redesigned the Echo.
Yes, Sur → Behind the scenes of Sketch’s macOS makeover.
Foundations → Design systems need experience foundations.

Featured work: Interview Magazine Germany →

Tools & resources

ClipDrop → Capture and transfer anything around you.
Flash archive → Flash animations and sites may now live forever.
Responsive tables → Under engineering responsible tables.
DesignOps tips → Treating DesignOps like a design problem.

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New Macs, Figma frame nesting, solving product debt

Fabricio Teixeira — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 14:05:03 +0000

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“Whenever I’m designing anything, I always keep in mind this quote from Eero Saarinen: ‘Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context — a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.’”

Thinking Contextually →

By Jorge Arango

The UX Collective is an ad-free design publication that elevates unheard design voices, reaching over 396,100 designers every week. Curated by Fabricio Teixeira and Caio Braga.

What I wish I knew when I started building products →

By Amilton L. Paglia

A design system is not a sticker sheet →

By Corey Roth

Why the new Macs are a game-changer for designers →

By Michal Malewicz

Respecting democracy in design →

By Josh Andrus

What people with disabilities hope to see in a Biden Presidency →

By Sheri Byrne-Haber, CPACC

More top stories:

News & ideas

Google in 2010 → A browser extension that simplifies Google.
COVID mobility → Data models on the mobility of COVID-19.
B4 emojis → A deep dive into the origins of rebus writing.
Micro-frontends → Deploy small pieces of frontend, independently.

Featured work: Daiana Ruiz →

Tools & resources

Ribbon → Instant user interviews with your own users.
Product debt → A practical guide to solving debt in your design. By Laurent Grima
Figma frames → Mastering frame nesting in Figma. By Chuck Rice
Greenlist → Make small, sustainable choices at work.

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UX of Among Us, tips for design systems, bad icons

Fabricio Teixeira — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 14:06:47 +0000

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Clean up the internet.

Online parks → To mend a broken internet, create online parks.
Clean start → The web is in need of some reinvention.
Personal carbon → All the carbon emissions you’ve witnessed.

The UX Collective is an independent design publication that elevates unheard design voices, reaching over 395,000 designers every week. Curated by Fabricio Teixeira and Caio Braga.

The UX of Among Us: Colorblind-friendly design →

By Unma Desai

Writing better self-reviews as a designer →

By Brian Lovin

The power of unfinished →

By Adrian Zumbrunnen

UX fallacy: no everything needs to be usable to be valuable →

By Felix Lee

The cognitive overload happening on your screen right now →

By Michal Malewicz

More top stories:

News & ideas

Shrinking UX → Why UX improvements are shrinking over time.
Bad icons → Google’s new app icons are pretty (&) bad.
Pixel-perfect dream → Not sure how to implement pixel-perfect design?
T RK → Investigating the machine learning pipeline and its implications in society.

Featured work: Morgane Koresh →

Tools & resources

Skeleton screens → How to make them work for you.
Design system tips → 5 tips when creating a design system in Sketch. By Marc Andrew.
Text recognition → Extract text from images in seconds.

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Ballots UX, Figma variants, designing fast food

Fabricio Teixeira — Sat, 31 Oct 2020 12:51:35 +0000

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Design isn’t always pretty.

Branding QAnon → The Instagram aesthetic that made it popular.
Social Dilemma → 5 things the documentary forgot to mention. By Sophie Taylor.
Ballots UX → What ballots can teach us about UX writing. By Lauren Jessen.

The UX Collective is an ad-free design publication that elevates unheard design voices, reaching over 393,800 designers every week. Curated by Fabricio Teixeira and Caio Braga.

Stop evaluating Product Designers like we’re Visual Designers →

By Tait Wayland

This is NOT collaboration →

By Michal Malewicz

Rethinking the design of race and ethnicity surveys →

By Sara Clayton

More top stories:

Collective update: the unique illustrations of Shreya Damle →

News & ideas

Better computers → Great essay on making computers better.
Copying → Is that the way design works?
Audio principles → Converting visual design principles into audio. By Luke Manimala.
Designing fast food → Great tutorial on food branding in The Simpsons.

Featured work: Weronika Marianna →

Tools & resources

Tyrus → A digital toolkit for freelance illustrators.
Layout projection → Animating browser layouts at 60fps.
Figma variants → Bridging design and code with Variants.
Phosphor icons → Flexible icon family for interfaces and diagrams.

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The UX of Among Us, chaos in design, dead chatbots

Fabricio Teixeira — Sat, 24 Oct 2020 13:13:30 +0000

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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.

The UX Collective is an ad-free design publication that elevates unheard design voices, reaching over 392,600 designers every week. Curated by Fabricio Teixeira and Caio Braga.

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

Featured work: The Map →

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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Nocode tool, qualities of great products, iPhone 12

Fabricio Teixeira — Sat, 17 Oct 2020 13:01:00 +0000

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All made of stardust.

The divide → I don’t know how to explain to you that you should care about other people.
Ten meters → Would you jump? Would you chicken out? An op-ed doc by the NY Times.
Open letter → An open letter to the Medium powers-that-be on accessibility. By Sheri Byrne-Haber, CPACC

The UX Collective is an ad-free platform that elevates unheard design voices all over the world, reaching over 391,400 designers every week. Curated by Fabricio Teixeira and Caio Braga.

News & ideas

Lovelace → Designing the Ada Lovelace hashflag emoji.
iPhone 12 → How fragmentation affects the way we design. By Michal Malewicz
Not time → Time is not a measure of productivity.
Absolutely FAB → How the floating action button became an icon.
Loom logo → Our_logo_design_process_FINAL, a walkthrough.

Featured work: Seeing Black Futures →

Tools & resources

Runway ML → Machine learning for creators.
Bitemporal → Curated examples of bitemporal charts.
Loader generator → Custom loaders built in Framer Motion + Next.js.
Research reels → The art of creating UX research highlight reels. By Michael Morgan
Nocode works → Turn Google Docs into a website, or anything.

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Real data in Figma, design system context, color controversy

Fabricio Teixeira — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 13:49:12 +0000

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Rachel Inman: Being intentional about your career decisions →

“I haven’t dismissed the idea of being a manager. It’s just that, for the last roughly five years, I’ve made the intentional choice to be an IC design lead. I want my decision to become a manager to be equally as intentional.”

The UX Collective is an ad-free platform that elevates unheard design voices all over the world, reaching over 390,000 designers every week. Curated by Fabricio Teixeira and Caio Braga.

A case for spreadsheet wireframes →

By Clair Rock [they/them]

Order and control: ideal UX for an autistic person →

By Irina Rusakova

Using real data in Figma →

By Jacob

More top stories:

The spell checker’s agenda →

News & ideas

How normal am I? → How Artificial Intelligence judges your face.
System context → Bringing more context to design systems.
Front-end duty → The widening responsibility for developers.
Interfaces for ML → Software ate the world, now machine learning is eating software.

Featured work: Helena Sbeghen →

Tools & resources

Why so ugly? → Why are policy disclosure pages so ugly?
Color controversy → Collective optical congruence.
Futura Now → The most Futura ever.
Volt → A starter kit to master prototyping in Framer.

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Anti-design trends, Figma low code, presidential debates

Fabricio Teixeira — Sat, 03 Oct 2020 13:08:39 +0000

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The world is burning.

Not a drill → The Reichstag is burning.
End of tourism → Is there any way to reinvent an industry?
Debate redesign → Redesigning the format of presidential debates.

The UX Collective is an ad-free platform that elevates unheard design voices all over the world, reaching over 389,100 designers every week. Curated by Fabricio Teixeira and Caio Braga.

Stories from the community

I disagree: the art of saying no →

By James Edward Bonilla

Good design feedback does not need to be cruel →

By Luis Berumen Castro

Figma Low Code: a new way to tackle design hand-offs →

By Klaus Schaefers

The 5 main anti-trends in design →

By Diana Malewicz

More top stories:

Design systems and the uniformization of digital interfaces → By George Serediuc
Stop racing toward the generic → By Barry W. Enderwick
Making change as invisible as possible to people → By Sara Coene
The digital panopticon → By Mane Tatoulian
UX (still) has pretty bad UX → By Michal Malewicz
Scaling research at Dropbox → By Christopher Nash

“This is a program that highlights impressive, up-and-coming UX design talent from around the world, people who are consistently challenging the limitations of the design profession despite being relatively early in their careers.” — By Khoi Vinh

Introducing the 2020 designers to watch →

News & ideas

Duolingo character → Designing the new characters for Duolingo.
Web apps → Web apps are not a thing, please stop.
UI developers → They are still underestimated.

Featured work: Marylou Faure →

Tools & resources

Emulated vision → How to emulate vision deficiencies in DevTools.
Illustration builder → Create custom illustrations in Figma.
Dictaphone → Tag, organize & prioritize your Slack messages.

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Career growth, social dilemma, good UX writing

Fabricio Teixeira — Sat, 26 Sep 2020 13:14:30 +0000

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Jess Eddy: To retain designers, companies should enable them to grow →

“How can I have more of an impact doing what I already do? (…) Sometimes opportunities for growth or achievement are presented to you, and sometimes you must seek them out.”

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The Social Dilemma

“I finally had time to reflect on #TheSocialDilemma and as someone who has worked on tech policy issues throughout my career, had many, many thoughts.”

Read thread on Twitter →

So you watched The Social Dilemma… now what? →

By Caroline Luu

The world needs a tech diet; here is how designers can help →

By UX Collective

How design contributes to toxic individualism →

By Jason Brush

News & ideas

Stop doing design systems projects → Your design system is not a project. By Daniël De Wit.
Future owners → A test to assess the ethical risk of digital products. By Cennydd Bowles.
Failed components → The failed promise of Web Components.
Jazz lettering → A gallery of unique musician lettering styles.

Featured work: Ingrid Emaga →

Tools & resources

Good UX writing → Eight principles for every interface. By Nick DiLallo.
Blacklight → A real-time website privacy inspector.
Pattern collect → A curated gallery of illustrated patterns.
Noun photos → The Noun Project is now offering photos.

We believe designers are thinkers as much as they are makers. So we created the design newsletter we have always wanted to receive.

DEV Community: UX Collective

Advanced Figma tricks, Neobrutalism, UX sketching, the phases of research

Editors’ picks

Make me think

Little gems this week

Tools and resources

Toxic solutioning, form vs function, blurred vision

Your weekly list of curated design resources, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective.

News & ideas

Tools & resources

PlayStation 5 UX flaw, Figma to video, make the logo smaller

Your weekly list of curated design resources, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective.

News & ideas

Tools & resources

New Instagram UI, bidirectional scrolling, Sketch macOS makeover

Your weekly list of curated design resources, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective.

News & ideas

Tools & resources

New Macs, Figma frame nesting, solving product debt

Your weekly list of curated design resources, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective.

News & ideas

Tools & resources

UX of Among Us, tips for design systems, bad icons

Your weekly list of curated design resources, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective.

News & ideas

Tools & resources

Ballots UX, Figma variants, designing fast food

Your weekly list of curated design resources, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective.

News & ideas

Tools & resources

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.

Top stories this week

News & ideas

Tools & resources

Nocode tool, qualities of great products, iPhone 12

Your weekly list of curated design resources, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective.

Top stories this week

News & ideas

Tools & resources

Real data in Figma, design system context, color controversy

Your weekly list of curated design resources, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective.

News & ideas

Tools & resources

Anti-design trends, Figma low code, presidential debates

Your weekly list of curated design resources, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective.

Stories from the community

News & ideas

Tools & resources

Career growth, social dilemma, good UX writing

Your weekly list of curated design resources, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective.

The Social Dilemma

News & ideas

Tools & resources