# Fake care, flappy Figma, the other side of Dev Tools, native tokens

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“The UX profession has an aura of empathy and care for the people who use tech products. Businesses capitalize on this aura without having to entertain it.

Goodness in a product’s design tends to make more sense as a convenient side-effect of a business case. For Twitter, crowd-sourced image descriptions written for free can make a nice data set to sell for machine learning.

If we look at industry-wide examples we can see how intrinsic care replaced with business incentives leads to low-quality black-and-white photocopies of the original ideas. Everything becomes optimized to meet business requirements and any surviving sense of care that remains is there by chance.”

[**The fake aura of care in UX**](https://uxdesign.cc/the-aura-of-care-d2c3fe328f21) **→**By [Stephen Farrugia](https://medium.com/u/35aadb33027b)

### Editor picks

*   [**The dark side of Figma’s Dev Mode**](https://uxdesign.cc/the-dark-side-of-figmas-dev-mode-3337008c0f26) **→**  
    A cautionary tale of Figma’s latest release.  
    By [Darren Yeo](https://medium.com/u/17dab133f2ba)
*   [**Sample size obsession**](https://uxdesign.cc/stop-asking-ux-researchers-to-defend-their-sample-size-65aa5c2305d2) **→**  
    Stop asking UX researchers to defend their sample size.  
    By [Chris Liu](https://medium.com/u/5413af9f7ac7)
*   [**Monetizing Duolingo**](https://uxdesign.cc/how-duolingo-pushes-users-from-freemium-to-premium-4b9fe8bbb21a?sk=e1105f6c47ee5b8f1e4096455d4ec85ehttps://uxdesign.cc/how-duolingo-pushes-users-from-freemium-to-premium-4b9fe8bbb21a?sk=e1105f6c47ee5b8f1e4096455d4ec85e) **→**  
    How Duolingo pushes users from freemium to premium.  
    By [Rosie Hoggmascall](https://medium.com/u/4731f4eb4818)

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[**This designer created a playable Flappy Bird using Figma variables**](https://www.figma.com/community/file/1255294635761885013) **→**

### Make me think

*   [**How AI can make software more intuitive**](https://www.amran.cz/how-ai-can-make-software-more-intuitive/) **→**  
    “AI is used as a link between the user’s mental model and the product’s conceptual model. Where previously gaps between the two models forced people to adapt to the product’s UI and/or suffer using it, AI now allows us to overcome it more easily.”
*   [**AI is killing the old web, and the new web struggles to be born**](https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/26/23773914/ai-large-language-models-data-scraping-generation-remaking-web) **→**  
    “Generative AI models are changing the economy of the web, making it cheaper to generate lower-quality content. We’re just beginning to see the effects of these changes.”
*   [**Humility: an essential value**](https://alistapart.com/article/humility-an-essential-value/) **→**  
    “Humility, a designer’s essential value — that has a nice ring to it. When humility is our guiding light, the path is always open for fulfillment, evolution, connection, and engagement.”

### Little gems this week

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[**The big problem with variables in Figma**](https://uxdesign.cc/the-big-problem-with-variables-in-figma-61a4ea82640?sk=558bfd994d3fb03d778e4a7a20fc51e9) **→**By [Paavan](https://medium.com/u/d2bd3f96fcbc)

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[**Write more, design less (and better)**](https://uxdesign.cc/write-more-design-less-and-better-a454d15f6795) **→**By [Calo Amico](https://medium.com/u/9ba6e4f9dcab)

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[**Why do people save their empty Apple boxes?**](https://uxdesign.cc/why-do-people-save-their-empty-apple-boxes-92e563203906?sk=c639a81040e1a42bceb3d585e3d91472) →  
By [Elvis Hsiao](https://medium.com/u/46ebaf4ad998)

### Tools and resources

*   [**Accessible overlays aren’t accessible**](https://uxdesign.cc/accessible-overlays-arent-accessible-96876ef474a4?sk=de516a838e4a1cc8429b13b347ca196d) **→**  
    You can’t solve accessibility with a single line of code.  
    By [Camryn Manker](https://medium.com/u/e4390d3ddcd8)
*   [**Flowbite icons**](https://flowbite.com/icons/) **→**  
    A collection of 437 free and open-source SVG icons.
*   [**Native design tokens in Figma**](https://uxdesign.cc/getting-started-with-native-design-tokens-in-figma-5d9c5fcdd9f7?sk=be17da71a4c5a4e35cf32e3b271a443e) **→**  
    A guide to getting started.  
    By [Lukas Oppermann](https://medium.com/u/80cd3f2b2e6e)

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[Fake care, flappy Figma, the other side of Dev Tools, native tokens](https://uxdesign.cc/fake-care-flappy-figma-the-other-side-of-dev-tools-native-tokens-adee585202f6) was originally published in [UX Collective](https://uxdesign.cc) on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.