Design audits, growing your career, CES monitors, and more UX this week

Design audits, growing your career, CES monitors, and more UX this week A weekly selection of design links, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective. As the new year starts, a few patterns we're seeing in our industry for 2019: Everyone is a design lead › Designers are too busy to design › Design is not saving the world › We're designing for less › Our obsession with design methods › Around the web Research for non-researchers › How a Dropbox writer took research into her own hands with rapid, speed-dating style research. By Andrea Drugay The ultimate guide to design audits › What are design audits, why you need one, and how to do them. Research questions ≠ interview questions › Why you can't just ask people what you want to know when you are doing user research. Redesigning Google Translate › Why soliciting preference in usability studies can be a trap — amongst other lessons. By Pendar Yousefi Breaking the illusion of completeness › Best practices to avoid the illusion of completeness and make sure visitors scroll past your homepage hero. By Jeff Cardello If you like the links, don't forget to 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 From the community The golden rules of UX › I tell my students that whenever I get stuck in a project, whenever I feel helpless or uncertain, these are the things I think about in order to get unstuck. By Sarah Dzida Should UX writers code? › Why filing bug reports with copy changes is not the best strategy to get your work implemented in your product. By John Saito 8 little tricks to grow your career › Whether you're a designer or someone in any creative field, these are a few bite-sized pieces of advice to level up on your career. By Gabriel Valdivia Design guidelines for mobile date-pickers › I've probably watched hundreds of people use a lot of different date pickers by now. In this post I'm going to give you some advice on the design of combined date-pickers for mobile phones. By David Hamill 50 essential UX portfolios (2019 edition) › 2019 is upon us and what better way to acknowledge some of the amazing talent in the field of Human-Centered Design than to take a moment to showcase and celebrate some of the best UX Portfolios in the craft. By Kyrillos Samaan Will Adobe XD kill Sketch and InVision? › If you couldn't care less for Adobe XD, or don't want to know what XD has to offer, read this article before crossing XD off your list. By Shane Williams Is your design portfolio hurting you? › It's obvious designers invest time in how they present their work — which makes it all the more tragic that most say very little to distinguish them. If you squint a little, 90% of design portfolios look the same. By Dave Feldman Things no one will tell you about doing UX Research in users' homes › There's another side to conducting user research in people's homes or offices that very rarely gets discussed. By cameron rogers News & ideas CES comes full of weird monitors that could actually work Google now lets you pick up where you left off on Search People from all over the world are sending emails to Melbourne's trees Why are all Apple products photographed at 9:41am? Hackers are using 3D-printed heads to unlock your phone This app offers a democratic playlist for the upvote era Tools & resources Design Camera: create and animate 3D mockups for your digital designs Broken Grid: quickly generate creative, unusual and regular grids Dimensions.Guide: a curated database of dimensioned drawings Retail UX: Google's playbook on better retail experiences Freelancing Resources: educational resources and tools for freelancers Swishhh: visualize your year of Dribbbling A year ago… Drag and drop for design systems › You probably use drag and drop in your everyday interfaces — dropping Gmail threads into folders, moving around Trello cards, or rearranging tabs in Chrome. These interactions are a lot more complex than you think. By Grace Noh 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/a19f46680bac3cbdc42953c920d0c104/href View in browser

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