Articles
Putting some emotion into your design: Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions – Using the theory of emotion to elicit reactions in your users.
Guide to design review meetings – A framework for leading better design reviews.
Mapping user stories in agile – User stories help agile teams define what to build and provide visibility on how it all holds together.
Why I'm losing faith in UX – How UX has moved from user experience to user exploitation.
We value your privacy (at about $0.50): dark patterns in UI copy – Direct follow-on to the previous article, showing how companies like Amazon, Medium, Facebook and Twitter use manipulative and self-serving language in their UX.
Lawmakers take aim at insidious digital ‘dark patterns’ – Interesting to see legislators go beyond privacy to take aim at user manipulation. Don’t know how it’ll pan out – the success of the GDPR and cookie laws have been mixed, but it’s a sign of things to come.
Cool tools
Pika – Free accessibility-focused colour picker for Mac.
Shadows – Ultimate CSS shadow generator, now with Figma plugin.
Cool stuff
WHY GGOD – Using GPT- 3 to write love heart messages.
Snowflake generator – Surprisingly relaxing.
Tree.fm – Listen to a random forest from around the world.
Archives.design – Fantastic collection of graphic design materials from the Internet Archive. Wish I’d thought of this.
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