New-manager syndrome, trusting your intuition, AI-generated avatars — and more UX this week

A weekly selection of design links, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective.

Avoiding the new-manager syndrome in design →

“Dear younger me,

You finally scored that promotion you’ve been looking for, right? You’re now a manager. I’m really excited for you; this is the first step of something big. Make sure to celebrate this promotion with your loved ones. Yep, go ahead and get drunk tonight; you don’t need to act professional all the time.”

Continue reading

• Intuition vs. Data → When data is king, trust your intuition.
• Design Outcome → Defining success for you and your users.
• Green Exit Signs → If red = emergency, why are exit signs green?

Stories from the community

Designer pedigree is nonsense: it’s the work, not the school →

By Michael McWatters

How to make sense of Inherited Design →

By @kingsidharth

Embracing imperfection in UX design →

By Marc Machenheimer

More top stories:

• UX inspiration from history: made in the Soviet Union → By Taras Savytskyi
• We need to talk about the plague of designer’s insecurity → By Kautsar Anggakara
• Should our notifications be more peaceful? → By Michael J. Fordham
• Make the most of your user research and synthesize like a pro → By Joe Lalley
• Duolingo, this is what you are missing — a UX analysis → By Maria Andrea Silva
• What samurai can teach us about UX → By Nicholas Friebel
• Leadership through application design → By Roxanne Coburn

News & ideas

• Spoils of #Nature → Those pretty Instagram shots are killing nature.
• Abstract Season 2 → The design TV series is back to Netflix this week.
• 70s Furniture → Distinctive furniture inspired by the 1970s in Italy.
• Duolingo Rebrand → The world’s largest language school has an updated brand.

Featured work: Holger Huber →

Tools & resources

• 100,000 AI Faces → Human faces generated by AI for free use.
• Icon SVG → Find and generate icons for your project.
• Patterns for AI → An interaction library for common AI challenges.
• Art of Symbols → How humans use logographic symbols to communicate complex ideas.

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