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10 memorable non-design films that have inspired me →
Movies I have watched or re-watched recently, and key learnings from each. Sometimes the best design inspiration comes from unexpected places.
Food for thought
- The new Mac Pro is a design remix → A return to form, heavily inspired by many of Apple’s past products.
- Creepiness vs. convenience → How users weigh the loss of privacy against the benefits they will receive in return.
- The problem with web components → A number of technical limitations and the risk of excluding users.
Stories from the community
Nobody loves your product →
The kind of love that businesses need to grow fast.
By Abel Maningas
How to crush design usability test for enterprise product? →
User testing best practices for complicated systems.
By Oleksii Masliiev
10 usability heuristics with examples →
Nielsen’s usability heuristics with modern-day examples.
By Akshay Devazya
More top stories:
- Tesla’s UX is too far ahead to make sense (now) → By Rubens Cantuni
- Understanding mental and conceptual models in product design → By Alana Brajdic
- When a designer is taking care of customer support → By Florent Lenormand
- Critique as a powerful tool in your design toolkit → By Ruta Gokhale
- Time to make digital products analog again (illustrated by clocks) → By Stefan Nikolovski
- In Product Design all hypothesis are equal — but some hypothesis are more equal than others → By Mark Shurtleff
News & ideas
- Highlights this week: Firefox has a new branding → Plugins are coming to Figma → Dropbox is getting a massive overhaul →
- Deepfake Frenzy → AI deepfakes are now as simple as typing whatever you want your subject to say.
- Web Sarcasm → 7 ways to convey sarcasm in web content through formatting and code.
- 4-Day Weeks → It’s time to switch to a four-day working week, say these two Davos experts.
- Listen Together → Listen Together is a concept for collaborative listening in Spotify by Mike Battaglia.
Tools & resources
- Versus → Find alternatives to the services you love to hate.
- Shape Space → IDEO’s tool to build, test, and refine your ideas.
- Unapp → A directory of minimal single-purpose apps.
- Beautiful Type → An in-depth guide to open-source typefaces.
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