Do products dream of living forever? — and more UX links this week

Do products dream of living forever? — 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. Journey: lessons from the amazing journey of being a designer → About two years ago I set myself the goal of writing articles that invite reflection more than anything; topics that can help newcomer designers step back from the day-to-day craft and think about our discipline at large. Food for thought On business & craft → Finding the balance between profitability and the passion for your craft. On paying attention → It's hard to see new things if you don't know how to pay attention and cut through the noise. On sharing insights → Shopify UX team on delighting your UX team with a design system contribution. The UX Collective newsletter is a self-funded newsletter read by over 106,233 people every week. The best way you can support it is by sharing it with your design friends. From the community Do products dream of living forever? → A designer's dive into longevity in software products. By Preethi Shreeya Dungeons & Dragons & Design Thinking → Role-playing games are also about developing empathy. By Ploy Buraparate Design principles are dead → The more obscure, the more they are misused as an alibi to hide behind. By Francesco Bertelli Visual hierarchy: design principles in action → Contrast, whitespace, proximity, symmetry, and more. By Harper Atlas More top stories: How to structure your UX portfolio → By Ben Taylor How being a salesperson made me a better designer → By Richard Andhika UX candidates are asking the wrong questions → By Chris Feix Two types of cost-effective and easy usability tests → By Marina Popovichenko Strategies in adopting and scaling user research within 1.5 year → By Luky Primadani Are designers preying on customer anxieties thanks to insights? → By George Miles What I've learnt designing content for a global rider community → By Rachel McConnell News & ideas Screenless luxury → Screens used to be for the elite; now avoiding them is a status symbol. UI bot → An experiment on how far one could automate the generation of visual designs. Kids, the game → A mesmerizing iOS art game about the human collective. 3-act structure → How to apply the famous structure to art, storytelling, and design. Tools & resources Landing Pagr → A free editing tool to write your landing page copy on. AMB-1 → An automatic mood board creator; just add images to a Dropbox folder. Full Stack Open → A free course about modern web development in collab with the University of Helsinki. Diez → A unified design system language across codebases, platforms, and teams. We believe designers are thinkers as much as they are makers. So we created the design newsletter we have always wanted to receive. View in browser

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