My phone is not a fridge
When talking about consumer and producer responsibility, there are apparent differences in device categories. OEMs take note.
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Instagram can’t touch the visual glory of blank VHS tapes
The arranged marriage between color and typography lives onA Retape 180 blank VHS tape. Source: WallHaven.A thing of beauty will never fade away. Those blank VHS tapes from the 80s? They look just as good in 2021. Vibrant Instagram images with layers of filters can’t hold a candle to these boxes in ..
How AI could get a deeper understanding of human language
The basis of human flexible thinking are analogy
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Why we need design leaders, designops leaders, DPMs, and design managers
What is the relationship between DesignOps and Design? Is a DesignOps Manager the same as a Design Programme Manager (DPM)? Understanding the roles and responsibilities of each of these roles is key to ensure Design teams thrive.While Design teams have been growing and scaling fast in the past few y..
The dark UX pattern which may bring down Matt Gaetz
Venmo’s default payment options may have made the Florida Representative’s shady private life public data
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Design as brand storyteller: Three ways design drives brand stories
Design does more than look good. In the right hands, it can tell the story of the brand like no linear narrative can.image: Photo by Raphael Schaller on Unsplash“Storytelling” is one of those words. In marketing circles, it gets hauled out whenever someone wants to make what they’re doing sound more..
3,360 Figma variants, is graphic design too trendy, is Framer still alive?
Weekly curated resources for designers who are thinkers as much as they’re makers. Brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective.Before the introduction of Variants, it was cumbersome to navigate a Figma asset library for components with multiple states or characteristics. More painful still w..
The world is running on bad UI.
We get excited by the new, slick, modern apps, yet things that are important are outdated AF.
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Product managers as amplifiers
I often say that being a PM is like having superpowers.
You are constantly learning new things given the problem space you are working in. You have privileged access to all areas of your company and the most relevant discussions about your product and company’s future.
But this kind of superpower co..
The evolution of usability in chess
Modern chess design has stood the test of time, but that wasn’t always the case. Sometimes less is more.Chess has a long history, it dates back to the 7th century in India, where it was created as a war game. In some ways, a lot of the game has remained unchanged since the creation, but there have b..
