Achieving clarity, anti-racist reading list, when we’ll socialize again — and more UX this week

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

We all have a lot to learn.

• Here: a visual poem → An examination of the lived Black experience.
• Anti-racism club → A digest to keep your anti-racism on track.
• Give a dose → A space to learn and check subconscious bias.

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Stories from the community

Design exercises are evil →

By Eric Burns

Anti-racist reading list for designers →

By Lexi Namer

The importance of clarity in UX →

By Thanos Dimitriou

More top stories:

• The ethics of persuasive UX design → By Natalie Svoboda
• Social proof in UX: An ancestral habit demoted to dark pattern → By David Teodorescu
• Client = designer = a better result? → By Michal Malewicz
• 3 tips to not let other designer’s successes get you down → By Maarten van Hoogdalem
• The troubled state of screen readers in multilingual situations → By Xurxe Toivo García
• But I don’t want to be a product designer → By Chad Wilson
• My last email to TED’s product team → By Michael McWatters

“I’ve read a large number of UX case studies plastered all over Medium, in Facebook groups and many other UX/UI platforms that show fancy UI graphics, animations and app design. If you’re looking for fancy stuff, this isn’t the place. This isn’t a UX case study of a designed app, website or product. This is an actual platform aimed at solving a real problem.”

How to kickstart your user research for a UX design project →

By Stefan De Las

News & ideas

• Back to normal? → When we expect to resume each social activity.
• Mental models → Tools used by Dropbox to solve design problems.
• Color craft → A designer’s life with color vision deficiency.
• Need for speed → Performance on the web, 23 years later.

Featured work: Tawny Chatmon →

Tools & resources

• Push notification → The anatomy of notifications in 2020.
• Revision path → Weekly podcast with designers and developers.
• Color copy & paste → Copy from your phone cam, paste on Figma.
• Pliim → Safely share your screen with one click.

The UX Collective donates US$1 for each article published in our platform. This story contributed to UX Para Minas Pretas (UX For Black Women), a Brazilian organization focused on promoting equity of Black women in the tech industry through initiatives of action, empowerment, and knowledge sharing. Silence against systemic racism is not an option. Build the design community you believe in.

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