Advanced Figma tricks, Neobrutalism, UX sketching, the phases of research

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Editors’ picks

• UX and feed sack fabric . When your audience is not your audience.
• AI = UX2 . When AI delivers a better user experience than designers.
• Dotted lines . The 3rd dimension of the matrix organization.
• UX sketching . What if you started your UX process away from a computer?
• The phases of UX research . Keeping an eye on your product’s big picture.

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Make me?think

• How the world’s richest people are driving global warming . “There’s growing evidence that the inequality between rich and poor people’s emissions within countries now overwhelms the country-to-country disparities. In other words: High emitters have more in common across international boundaries, no matter where they call home.”
• An incoherent rant about design systems . “The hard truth is this; your Figma docs should be treated like a sketch on the back of a napkin. It should be somewhat accurate but it’s a tool that reflects the front-end, but: it ain’t your design system.”
• If we make a product work for anyone, it usually works better for everyone . “But focusing on those global users forces us to solve problems that are universal and build solutions that are so intuitive they work for anyone in the world — even though that focus also comes with limits, like not always taking advantage of the most recent hardware.”

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Little gems this?week

Neobrutalism is taking over the web →

The Infinite Scroll effect: how design can hack your brain →

Don’t rely only on tools to pick an accessible color combination →

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Tools and resources

• Substratum . Like Pinterest, for work stuff.
• Color morph . Generate beautiful morph gradients with ease.
• Advanced Figma tricks . The little hidden gems we love.

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