Why people hate redesigns, VFX animations, UI spacing rules, rethinking portfolios
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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3 min readAug 23, 2021
“My website needs some love. The design is showing its age — but even worse — I’ve been too busy to update it so it doesn’t even represent my best work. Sound familiar?”
Person before portfolio →
By Benek Lisefski
The UX Collective is an independent ad-free design publication that elevates unheard design voices, reaching over 400k+ designers every week. Curated by Fabricio Teixeira and Caio Braga.Editors’ picks
- The User is a problematic idea →
But so is the Human.
By James Reith - Design lessons from the grim fate of the Segway →
Why did the Segway fail and scooters/e-bikes are thriving?
By Clive Thompson - It’s not your fault you suck at video games →
A UX perspective on the gaming industry.
By Olivier Kendra - Are Amazon and Nike accessible? →
Looking at the future considering change factors and megatrends.
By Tori Riemersma - Why do people hate redesigns? →
Twitter users aren’t handling the changes particularly well.
By Maria Panagiotidi
The Bumpy Typeface project challenges us to rethink our assumptions about gender through type design.
Food for thought
- How Figma became design’s hottest startup, valued At $10 billion →
“As Google Docs did for word processing and GitHub for code, so Dylan Field’s Figma is doing for design. Employees at companies like Netflix, AirBNB, Zoom, and Discord are all users.” - The difference between time and attention →
“Every day is the same 24-hour cycle. Every workday around 8 hours. Surely I could have found even 20 minutes a day to work with him. But it wasn’t that. It wasn’t that I couldn’t find the time. I couldn’t find the attention — especially sustained attention.” - The rise of long-form generative art →
“The need for consistent minimum output quality is dramatically complicated by the second new demand of long-form generativism: the output space of the algorithm must be varied enough to justify the set of iterations generated from it.”
Tools and resources
- UI cheat sheet: Spacing →
A detailed guide to spacing friendships.
By Tess Gadd - 100 underline animations →
A collection of CSS-based underline animations. - A guide to focus indicators →
Making them accessible and WCAG-compliant.
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