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A weekly selection of design links, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective.
All them A/B tests that never happened →
When A/B tests become less about user validation and more about having a escape hatch for lack of product vision.
- UI Learnability →
How to measure learnability of a user interface. - No Dropdowns →
The issue with dropdowns & what to use instead. - Accessible Buttons →
Building icon buttons with masks and SVG.
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Stories from the community
How I used decision tree to decide what’s next after college →
By Nikhil Yadav
Does Instagram make bad navigation good? →
By Michal Malewicz
10 time-savers that I use daily as a UI designer →
By Danny Sapio
More top stories:
- A case against “pixel perfect” design →
By Chuánqí Sun - Designing with memory in mind →
By Dale Owen - AI is the UX (is it, though?) →
By Chris Noessel - A deep dive into the Surface Duo’s virtual keyboard →
By Christian Cantrell - Getting the right feedback, and managing priorities →
By Shu Jiang - 6 tactics to maximize UX research in Agile →
By Kuppy T. - A mini-guide to font combinations →
By Cameron Chapman
News & ideas
- Figma Community →
Publish live design files that anyone in the world. - Earth Overview →
Imagery on how human activity shapes our Earth. - One-Page Dungeon →
Programmatically-generated RPG maps. - Age of Nonsense →
Living fully? That’s pseudo-profound nonsense.
Tools & resources
- Awesome Plugins →
Best plugins for Sketch, XD, Figma, in one place. - Human Words →
Plain language words for sounding more human. - Sketch Styler →
Auto assign styles to all of your un-styled layers. - Usability Posters →
Usability heuristics in free posters for your office.
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