Designing for better digital nutrition — and more UX links this week

Designing for better digital nutrition — and more UX links this week A weekly selection of design links, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective. This email is automatically generated by Medium and might contain formatting issues in certain email clients. To get a better experience every week, make sure to subscribe at newsletter.uxdesign.cc. The world needs a tech diet; here is how designers can help → It's time we bridge the gap between feel-good Design & Ethics panels and the work we do everyday as digital product designers. Process, process, process Stack mirroring → Design systems are doing what code has been doing for a long time; see how to integrate both. By John Choura Jr. Microsoft process → How Abstract improved file organization and collab in the design team at Microsoft Outlook. By Joe Woodward What the Figma → Thoughts on design software and why the design team at Unsplash migrated its library to Figma. By Kirill Zakharov The UX Collective newsletter is a self-funded newsletter read by over 105,900 people every week. The best way you can support it is by sharing it with your design friends. Stories from the community Making more informed design judgements → We can't see the intentions behind work we deem as "bad" so we readily assume it's garbage. By Tanner Christensen Dealing with deadlines as a designer → Stop setting up ridiculous deadlines for your next product. By Vivek Karthikeyan You can't manage what you can't measure → Why skipping the user research process costs way more than conducting actual research. By Selen Şentürk Why empty states should never be neglected → Setting the stage, establishing expectations, and planting the seed of success for users. By Jeremiah Lam More top stories: The world run by software startups → By Teisanu Tudor Follow platform UI guidelines? Or invent our own? → By Reza Bigdeli How to design with privacy in mind → By Martin Wiesemborski Color accessibility: tools & resources to design inclusive products → By Stéphanie Walter All you need to know about colors in UI Design — theory & practice → By Christian Vizcarra Quick links Airline Logos → Play Date Gaming System → The Chair Exhibition → Typography.com New Design → My Dad, Facebook Addict → News & ideas Circular Design → A guide by Nike about achieving circularity and a more sustainable world. Inverted World Map → Here's a walk around an inverted globe map that will change your perspective on things. JPEGs Everywhere → Behind the veil of familiarity lie algorithms that remove details imperceptible to the human eye. Fluid Typography → Is fluid web typography ready to be used, despite its potential accessibility issues? Tools & resources Duolingo Games → A case study on designing a new gaming feature for language learning app Duolingo. Blot → A blogging platform with no interface, that turns any folder into a blog. PixelSnap → A pretty fast tool for measuring anything on your screen. Recommender Systems → What designers should know about recommender systems. View in browser

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