Helping prevent suicide through design

Helping prevent suicide through design A weekly selection of design links, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective. Designing for suicidal users: preventing suicide the modern way › Back in college, I was that 1 in 5 college students who suffer from anxiety and depression. Pressure from trying to get good grades, looking for jobs, relationships, and becoming an adult drowned me with worries (often innocuous ones now I look back). One time in junior year, I had a surprisingly exhausting day — one of those days when you've already completely filled up your calendar, but new meetings and problems endlessly show up. That night, I lied in bed overtired yet wide awake from paranoia. After failing to fall asleep for almost 3 hours, I got up and Googled "how to die easily". Here is what I saw. Continue reading › 7 principles of universal design › People have been studying design for ages, but we rarely see much crossover in the design fields. Using web design principles, for example, is not the only way to design websites. Conversational semantics › As Alexa, Cortana, Siri, and even customer support chat bots become the norm, we have to start carefully considering not only how our content looks but how it could sound. Writing documentation when you are not a technical writer › People might not be physically shuddering at your docs, but there's a good chance they are doing it mentally. I struggled with the idea that people aren't going to read what I write, unless I present it in the most easily digestible way. How to be a great design mentor and where to find one for yourself › A mentor can be immensely benefiting in one's life and career. Here are a couple of tips on how to be a good mentor and how to find one as well. From the community How to go from intern to full-time product designer The power of "I don't know" in product design Dashboard design & requirements: the struggle and the solution The best designers are business strategists Designing for the stigma of unintended pregnancies Stop listening to your vocal minority; focus on your silent majority The iconography of American sign language The disconnect between students and the design industry News & ideas How Slack's content strategy expanded over the years The Disconnect is a digital magazine you can only view if you go offline Communicating UX issues with comics Generate spammy tech recruiter messages to send on LinkedIn Why design systems should describe how they change How should facial recognition be regulated? Netflix Party synchronizes video playback and group chat with remote friends Tools & resources Principle now supports controlling video time with a driver SVG Filters: add special effects to SVG graphics Recordfy lets you send audio messages on Slack Piet Mondrian: replicating his art with code Slicki lets you build documentation from Slack conversations Ownetic: a social platform for people with a passion for collecting Live Listings: an aggregator of web live streams happening now A year ago… When copy loves itself too much › Intuitive and empathic writing is complex. And as writers, we spend a great deal of time thinking about how users might interpret our words. Context-appropriate approaches that are based on empirical testing are typically front and center in our processes. View in browser

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