Threads’ downfall, HTML to Figma, Customer Experience 3.0, effective communication
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
“When Threads launched, growth experts loved their onboarding strategy. “Wow, a one-click sign up!” many said. With one click, your profile is created. With another one, it is launched, already pre-populated.
That’s the starting point of most growth playbooks: less friction means higher conversions. I consider myself a business-minded designer, and I’m guilty of that too.
But it comes with a cost.”
Editor picks
- How personal should personalization be? →
At what point does AI-powered personalization become creepy?
By Daley Wilhelm - What’s the impact of Elon Musk’s leadership on end-user experience? →
Analyzing tech leadership approaches and alternatives.
By Meltem Naz Kaso Coskun - The features investors want are not the ones your users need →
Why UX should care about the business… but not too much.
By Lindsey M. West Wallace
The UX Collective is an independent design publication that elevates unheard design voices and helps designers think more critically about their work.
Make me think
- All art is a copy of something →
“Sometimes an artist will see a beautiful landscape and try to express that beauty with paint on canvas or by taking a photograph. It’s a copy, in a way, that becomes something else because it goes through the mind, heart, and hands of the artist.” - You don’t need to document everything →
“People document everything now. Every mundane moment of their lives. As well as profoundly personal moments, from health scares to mental breakdowns to their first time seeing a baby after it’s born.” - Names are complex →
“I came across an interesting problem I had to solve at work when we were building a reusable avatar component for our design system. Avatars are in frequent use on many websites including social media, content management systems, and any software that has the concept of a user or user profile.”
Tools and resources
- How to build better AI products with UX research →
Adapting research to explore AI’s new challenges.
By Nicolás Del Real - Effective communication strategies for designers →
Leading through design.
By Mary Borysova - 3 paths with LottieFiles to master motion design →
Animating unicorns using Figma, After Effects, and more.
By Claire Jin
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