Stop complaining about it; redesign it — and more UX links this week

Stop complaining about it; redesign it — and more UX links this week A weekly collection of UX links, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective. If you like the links, don't forget to 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Stop complaining about it; redesign it → I honestly don't know if this is something unique to our industry, or simply a generational truth — but designers complain a lot. Over the course of my career, I have heard people complain about their bosses, the lack of vision of their company's leadership, the lack of process, their co-workers, tools, slow computers, and even the types of snacks (provided for free) by the company they work for. Maybe it's because designers have been trained to spot things that are not working. Still, it strikes me as really odd. Continue reading → The microcopyist: cancellation, confirmation, conflagration → One of the marvelous things about UX writing is that you'll inevitably write yourself into some torturous and impossible-to-fathom linguistic corners. One day, your mind boggles over whether to hyphenate or not hyphenate a lesser-known phrase. The next, you forget what sanity feels like when someone asks you to write microcopy for unknown errors. All the while, you'll have to justify your decisions to the voice, tone, and data deities. But never forget, young writer: You did this to yourself. –By Jason Fox. Continue reading → How do you design a design doc? → The word "documentation" isn't sexy, but documentation is a key part of the design process for many teams. By John Saito. ROI of design thinking → Design Thinking has been embraced by product teams, pre sales groups, HR teams — but is it making an impact in companies? By Mariano Suarez-Battan. How tiny red dots took over your life → As the ranks of tech-industry critics have expanded, it has become harder to tell what common ground they occupy. Using ancient mathematics to enrich your design skills → Simple ideas from geometry and mathematics can be helpful and profound for those interested in all spectrums of design. By Vishal Kumar. From the community Reimagining the ecommerce experience for IKEA → How to rethink IKEA's ecommerce while maintaining the company's value of "happiness is a journey, not a goal". By Yin Zeng (Cindy). When great product teams ship broken UX → Why do well-funded companies with ample resources often ship broken user experiences? By jeoff wilks. Not-so-smooth iPhone X and iPad Pro experiences → The company once well known for excellent design now started doing the same things that made me switch from Android a few years ago. By Pavol Donko. On well designed research plans → The five elements for designing research plans in qualitative research to successfully learn about users. By Péter Balázs Polgár. The damnable flesh interface: designing around human workflows → Brilliant, dense, and aggravatingly always right — the flesh interface can mess up even the simplest interaction. By Caitria O'Neill. News & ideas Vero is the first social app that doesn't work to get a million downloads For the multilingual homes out there, Google Home will soon detect what language you're speaking in Google's Slack competitor is launching for businesses as part of the G Suite Twitter now lets you bookmark tweets privately Do yourself a favor and look at these silly and brilliant CSS puns Now do yourself another favor and try to guess llamas from alpacas What if type designers could sell interesting work in progress? Here's yet another gradient gallery, but for some reason they are shaped like eggs and named after "Obama's resignation" or "Notification from ex" Are you the type of person who does the easy first, or hard first? It seems like Instagram is lost, planning voice and video calling feature This is the algorithm ants use to build bridges Uber and Lyft are actually making traffic way worse Tools & resources Sketch now does prototyping, Figma has transitions, Zeplin has extensions, and this whole war is becoming fun to watch 30 Seconds of CSS: useful CSS snippets you can understand in 30s or less Commerce Cream: the best of the best Shopify stores Real Life Charts: an instagram account for data maniacs Learn calligraphy with augmented reality Witeboard: start drawing anywhere and share in one click CVS Explorer: explore Spreadsheets with Millions of Rows C.A.R.E: a simple framework for user onboarding Crumby claims to be the perfect tool for neat and organized designers Friday is a service to measure employee happiness and build better teams Keyboard Checker will help you make sure all your keys are working A year ago… The magic of microcopy → When I think about the products I love, they all have one thing in common: delightful little details. These details show that a lot of love is put into what is being made. It's just a little detail, a little shape, but it shapes how I feel about the product. https://medium.com/media/05d5fd32eda31cbd1b83287606744532/href Like the links? Clap below 👏👏👏 View in browser

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