What mentees are asking about — and more UX links this week

What mentees are asking about — and more UX links this week A weekly selection of UX links, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective. The most common topics from 200+ design mentorship sessions › For the last couple of years I have been regularly meeting with designers from various countries and backgrounds to offer mentorship and career guidance. These sessions are one of the most efficient ways I have found to give back to the community some of what I have learned from it. The topics we cover in those sessions vary a lot depending on each designer's particular goals: portfolio review, career advice, design critique, questions about working in agencies or working abroad, or simply high-level conversations about where digital design is headed. The other day I was looking back at all the sessions I have had: more than 200 mentorship sessions according to my Google Hangout call history. Once I week I'll jump on a video call, for 15–45 minutes, with someone different. Honestly, I wish I had kept a more detailed log of every one of those conversations. Each story is so unique and so special that I feel deeply connected to the mentee. And still: when I step back and look at the totality of sessions, I am able to identify the patterns on the most common topics people want to chat about. This post is a collection of some of them. Continue reading Product strategy and the myth of the creative genius › How creative people glorify ideas, and why we easily put The Creative Genius on a pedestal. Designers are defining usability too narrowly › Why it is no longer useful — or responsible — to think of the work we as designers do in narrow terms. The bullshit web › It is just this lack of connection to a concern with truth — this indifference to how things really are — that I regard as of the essence of bullshit. From the community 100 days of motion design My beef with "everyone is a designer" The product designer's toolbox How boundaries facilitate great User Experiences The true ROI of UX: convincing the executive suite How to talk to your users like a pro Fostering UX on a DevOps culture How learning Design Sprint helped me improve my UI/UX process Slack mobile redesign: simpler, more pleasant, more productive Stories by Tiantian Xu, Tara Jensen, Cameron Getty, Roniece Ricardo, Miklos Philips, Adéla Tofflová, Matias Gianni, Vasil Nedelchev, Keh Linette. News & ideas Why designers don't want to think when they read How Google AMP dropped this company's conversion rates in 70% "Never assume anything" it the best rule for inclusive design What if you used behavioral archetypes instead of personas? NY Times shares their design process of getting to a new homepage A cautionary tale as the face behind a stock image This tool will make any site look like it was made in Geocities Tools & resources Metafact: facts direct from verified experts UI Sources: product insights behind the top grossing apps Perkk: swap design/dev resources for perks UX education programs: which one is right for you? Typesetting: a 101 guide Pts: a javascript library to express what you see in your mind Bookman: upload ebooks to receive snippets via email everyday A year ago… Coherent, not consistent › Coherence means making sure every part of your product feels like it belongs there, instead of trying to make them exactly the same. By Bruno Bergher. View in browser

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