AI rush, the post-product designer, mobile search UX, job hunting advice
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
“I do not blindly trust efficiency. Countless sacrifices have been made in the name of “Efficiency,” but our rush to gain more is often futile. Somehow, we always figure out how to max out new capabilities of our more efficient technological reality in a constant cycle of optimism, exuberance and ultimate limitation.”
Hey AI, what is the rush? →By Luis Berumen Castro
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Editor picks
- No, AI user research is not “better than nothing” →
It’s much, much worse.
By Pavel Samsonov - What the AI Pin misunderstands about Star Trek →
Why we’re (still) not living in the future.
By Daley Wilhelm - How to build better AI products with user research →
Adapting UX research to explore new challenges.
By Claire Jin - Introducing the Post-Product Designer →
How we’re destroy the environment beyond repair.
By Finlay Stevens-Hunt - Are employed job seekers making it tougher for the jobless? →
Misleading career advice and unrealistic expectations.
By Michael F. Buckley
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In loving memory of the square checkbox →
Make me think
- Thoughts on a global design system →
“Isn’t every open-source design system a “global design system”? Aren’t the people making them trying to make them as useful as possible for as many people as possible? If that’s right, and thus they have failed, why did they fail? What are they doing that doesn’t map to the philosophy of a global design system?” - Software is beating the world →
“At the time, Andreessen’s “Software is eating the world” was lauded as revolutionary, in part because it successfully framed how software was invading most of our lives, and in part because it was a very long and thoughtful piece about technology at a time when the tech industry had very little scrutiny.” - The friendship problem →
“A lot of people I speak to — people who live in cities, and haven’t moved away from their networks, people who don’t stay indoors after 6pm — are not happy with the state of their social lives.”
Little gems this week
Key takeaways from Airbnb’s winter redesign →By Daniel de Mello
How ecomm subscription services are breaking all the UX rules →By Beth J1
UI elements are not so elementary →
By Erez Reznikov
Tools and resources
- Mobile search →
Which pattern should you choose?
By Ksenia Toloknova - Design systems for products →
Ecosystem of design systems.
By Marie Lu Vinh - Designing user onboarding →
Lessons from Figma, Duolingo, and more.
By Ben
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