Putting the blame elsewhere — and other UX links this week

Putting the blame elsewhere — and other UX links this week A weekly selection of design links, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective. There is nothing more disappointing when I'm interviewing someone to fill a Design position than ~that~ comment. That one. That exonerates the designer from everything. That puts the blame on other people, on another team, on another universe: "Yeah, it was a great project, but it's a bummer the implementation wasn't as great. The developers weren't able to follow what we told them to do and ended up implementing something really bad, super clunky and hard to use." Designer: if the experience wasn't implemented as we envisioned, that's as much our fault as it is anyone else's. Our role as designers is to create experiences that are easy to use, not mockups or prototypes that are easy to use. Continue reading → Food for thought Books don't work → Books are easy to take for granted; but their foundational idea is quite mistaken. End of empathy → Empathy, but just for your own team. Never for the other team. That's a taboo. Memo to product designers → Sadly, many of us haven't had the memo which gives us permission to make interesting work. The UX Collective newsletter is a self-funded newsletter read by over 52,900 people every week. The best way you can support it is by sharing it with your design friends. Stories from the community Honestly, UX recruitment processes are broken → Résumés, design assignments, and generic rejection letters. By Melody Koh 🤔 Confronting the illusion of choice → The facade of autonomy in an online world. By Jeremy Cherry Hamburger menu UX: too ubiquitous to fail? → Don't know where to put a link? Hamburger menu. By Michael J. Fordham A comprehensive UX guide to project kickoffs → How to set your projects up for success. One checklist at a time. By Arturo Ríos Micro Design Systems — breaking the monolith → It's time for us to mature our design systems and prepare for the future. By Paul van Oijen More top stories: Why you're not getting promoted (and it's probably your fault) → By Quintin Marcus I turned my interview task for Google into a startup → By Andrew Burton How I increased this travel app's booking revenue by redesigning it → By Felix Lee It's time to rethink UX design challenges → By Quinn Keast 6 mistakes you want to avoid when hiring a UX designer → By Adam Fard This means this, this means that: Semiotics — the study of meaning → By Mario Van der Meulen For the UX nerds Split buttons → A hybrid between a button and a menu; how to design one? Design scenarios → Communicating the small steps in UX while putting user needs first. Touch & gesture → To make sure a product gets built right, you need to write design specifications. Designing skeleton screens → How to code skeleton screens based on Sketch or Photoshop opacity modes. Tools & resources Lorem Picsum → Yep, just what the name suggests: the Lorem Ipsum for photos. Polypane → A browser built from the ground up to create and test websites and apps. Adobe XD Design Systems → New XD update includes reusable elements to centrally manage your design system. Dark Material Design → Google's guidelines for designing for low-light UI that displays mostly dark surfaces. View in browser

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