Are you obsessing over design methods? — and other UX links this week

Are you obsessing over design methods? — and other UX links this week A weekly selection of design links, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective. On our obsession with design methods — and how to avoid it › A design method is simply a set of steps you can refer to, so that you don't have to reinvent the wheel every time you are trying to solve a similar design problem. Design methods are great: They help define a baseline way of doing something. They help create a shared vocabulary across a team or an organization. They help make design accessible to more people (hi, Design Thinking), which also means that other industries will start understanding the value design can bring to the equation. What is concerning is when designers cross the line and start to obsess about design methods; when they rely on design methods for everything, and start to believe there is no other way to solve design problems than the one specified in a guide or tutorial. Continue reading › Designing with real data › With the release of Framer X, the team at Dropbox set out to rebuild the Desktop Kit from the ground up with real data at its core. Building color systems that scale › Sharing a new way to building color systems for accessible UIs that scale, by the team at Lyft. Breaking the deadlock between user and developer experience › We can no longer talk about user experience (UX) without including performance as a first-class requirement. If you like the links, don't forget to 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 From the community Stories by Hugo Froes, Alex Brown, Jennifer Aldrich, Eugene Wiafe-Dadzie, Mariel Macia, Nikki Anderson, Erica Guo. Moving past the battle for having the greatest job title ever Growth chart for UX designers (beta) The Apple Watch could have saved my daughter's life Trust the process Service design: bad experiences and misunderstandings I'll say it: focus groups suck Nicki Minaj vs. Cardi B's websites — a UX analysis News & ideas Amazon has launched a preview of what its home's OS will look like Times Newer Roman is a font designed to make your essays look longer Hello We Are: a satire on your average agency website (try refreshing it) Believe it or not, airline toilets are getting smaller A breakdown of why Apple's 3D Touch fails miserably Fortine's UX designer breaks down UI details players may not notice Here's a brief story on product sound design Tools & resources Sketch 52 is here, including data linking, dark mode, and a new UI Toolshed: a collection of design companies and tools they use Alva: create living prototypes with code components Microcopy: curated examples of great copy on sites and apps Eagle: organize your digital assets in a single place CatchAR: discover AR projects, lenses and apps Vapid: an intentionally simple content management system A year ago… 5 questions you should be asking yourself all day, everyday › How UX designers can use their superpowers not only when designing interfaces, but on every step of the design process — including collaborating with the broader team. We believe designers are thinkers as much as they are makers. So we created the design newsletter we have always wanted to receive. https://medium.com/media/05d5fd32eda31cbd1b83287606744532/href Like the links? Share the ❤ View in browser

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