Toxic solutioning, form vs function, blurred vision

Your weekly list of curated design resources, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective. The UX Collective Newsletter A newsletter by UX Collective December 12, 2020  •  3 min read  •  View in browser Toxic solutioning, form vs function, blurred vision Your weekly list of curated design resources, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective. Design highlights in 2020 → Celebrating and highlighting some of the most impactful projects and contributions to the design community. Book of the year: A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide Blog of the year: The Architecture of Information Game of the year: Baba is You See all The UX Collective is honored to have been recognized as the Best Design Publication of 2020 at the Brazil Design Awards. 💙 The results of the State of CSS survey are out, and the State of JS survey is now open. The UX Collective is an independent design publication that elevates unheard design voices, reaching over 401,100 designers every week. Curated by Fabricio Teixeira and Caio Braga. I disguised as an Instagram UX influencer for 4 months; this is what I learned → Form vs. function: when is it okay to be weird? → The problem of toxic solutioning → Do stories make social media more addictive? → Learn like a scientist, think like a PM, work like a designer → More top stories: Building internal tools: A mindset shift for product people → A guide of UI design trends for 2021 → The biggest lesson from 2020… → Remember that thing you designed? Yeah, it's obsolete now → Wireframes are useless → News & ideas Look to speak → Google's tech lets you speak with your eyes. Yahoo's icons → Refining Yahoo's weather icon suite. Alternative maps → Intriguing maps that reveal alternate histories. Going deeper → Non-obvious ways to have deeper conversations. Tools & resources Platform abuse → A guide for safer product development. Octopus → Generate visual sitemap from any sites. Awkward convo → A framework for having design conversations. Blurred vision → Stark's new burred vision simulator tool. We believe designers are thinkers as much as they are makers. So we created the design newsletter we have always wanted to receive. From The UX Collective Newsletter A newsletter by UX Collective A weekly, ad-free newsletter that helps designers stay in the know, be productive, and think more critically about their work. More from this newsletter View in browser

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