Getting that first impression right — and more UX links this week

Getting that first impression right — and more UX links this week A weekly selection of UX links, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective. Things I (honestly) don't want to see in your portfolio › You only get one chance to make a first impression, so you better get it right — isn't that what they say? 15 common rating scales explained › There are endless ways to ask questions of participants in surveys. Let's look at some of them. Proactive UX design: a big leap requiring baby steps › When teams engage in proactive user experience design, they deliver better products. You can't research without context › How Shopify thinks about onboarding and team structure to set new team members up for success. Is digital 'dumbing down' desirable? › Software has never been more accessible than it is today. Is this digital 'dumbing down' as desirable as it first appears? Guiding principles for effective product discovery › Six tips to keep in mind when running research and discovery, to make sure you keep your audience in mind. If you like the links, don't forget to 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 From the community Stories by Anna Haverinen, Yury Vetrov, Michał Mazur, Prinses Greta, Edgard Kozlowski, James Whitman, Brian Beavers. Provotypes: how making annoying things can help you design better DesignOps or UX Strategy or Design Management or Design Leadership? What is design debt and why you should treat it seriously Same same but different: reflections of a copywriter-turned-UX-writer How I've automated the production of marketing images Stop 'delivering' software with Agile — it doesn't work Designing for real: tips for inclusive product design News & ideas Google One launches, a first step to Google's subscription model Magic Leap is real — and pretty underwhelming, if you were to ask me Evernote has a refreshed brand language There's a new generation of workers who won't be tied to any one place Insta Repeat shows us how predictable are the photos we take There's Waldo is a robot that finds Waldo A thorough study on how different countries laugh online Tools & resources UX Resources: a simplified starting guide for UX designers Make My Persona: create a buyer persona for your organization Cool Fonts vs. Best Fonts: here are the ones people actually use AssemblyAI: speech-to-text technology for developers Data-to-Viz: find the most appropriate graph for your data Vue Zero to Hero: free courses and lessons to help you master Vue.js Front-End Performance Checklist: design with performance in mind A year ago… Mirrored atomicity: designers and devs speaking the same language › The concept of atomic design and front-end development is already well established, but here is the problem: designers and developers tend to create different component structures. By Vitor Guerra. Like the links? Clap below 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 https://medium.com/media/05d5fd32eda31cbd1b83287606744532/href View in browser

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