Ego Kills UX, Avoiding Burnout in Tech, The Myth of Invisible Design, and more UX this week

Ego Kills UX, Avoiding Burnout in Tech, The Myth of Invisible Design, and more UX this week Here's what's hot in UX this week. Ego Kills Experience Design → Ego lives in, and haunts every one of us. It sits and waits around every corner. It waits for us to succeed or to fail. It waits to tell us that we're important, that we're special and that we're better than everyone else. At the same time, it waits to tell us that we're useless, that we never had a chance and that we were doomed to fail. Read full story → Why Difficulty Settings are Bad Design → How to make sure your lower skill players aren't frustrated while your higher skill players aren't bored. via Fabricio Teixeira Avoiding Burnout at a Tech Company → How can we avoid burnout, or at least, put in some measures to reduce the likelihood of it happening? via Caio Braga The Myth of Invisible Design → One of the most persistent myths in design is that "the best designs are invisible". They are not. via Fabricio Teixeira Why Every Developer Should Understand User-Centered Design → There are few things more rewarding than bringing a new product to life. But what happens when users don't like or understand your product? via Caio Braga The Distribution of Users' Computer Skills is Worse Than You Think → One of usability's most hard-earned lessons is that you are not the user. This is why it's a disaster to guess at the users' needs. via Fabricio Teixeira Why is it so Hard to Make a Website for the Government? → When your goal is to make public benefits more accessible to low-income Americans, you are beholden to all sorts of things — laws, institutions, budgets — other than low-income Americans. via Fabricio Teixeira Design News & Ideas AirBNB repositioned their brand, offering trips that look like movie posters Google's new PhotoScan app helps you scan photos from the past A new photo book that tells the story of design at Apple People love to hate the new Taco Bell logo A behind-the-scenes look at designing the new Uber App This is what people thought VR would look like in 1990 A neural network experiment by Google that guesses your doodles Clickclickclick.click is an experiment about browser tracking Your friends at uxdesign.cc started a blog in Brazil \o/ Tools & Resources Lookback now lets you live stream user testing sessions InVision Inspect helps you hand off design specs to developers Font Matcherator finds out the typeface used in an image A book review of "Getting real", by 37 signals A list of pretty important design principles PieVideo is a camera accessory that makes 360 videos on your phone Touché emulates the new macbook touch bar on old MacBooks Startup Collections aggregates useful resources for starters Visit our collection on Medium Like the links? Share the love ♥ RecommendRespond View in browser

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