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Design isn’t always pretty.

• Branding QAnon → The Instagram aesthetic that made it popular.
• Social Dilemma → 5 things the documentary forgot to mention. By Sophie Taylor.
• Ballots UX → What ballots can teach us about UX writing. By Lauren Jessen.

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Stop evaluating Product Designers like we’re Visual Designers →

By Tait Wayland

This is NOT collaboration →

By Michal Malewicz

Rethinking the design of race and ethnicity surveys →

By Sara Clayton

More top stories:

• Newtonian interfaces → By Taner Olcay
• Food allergies: when search UX becomes dangerous → By Anna E. Cook (she/her)
• The accidental tyranny of user interfaces → By Oliver Meredith Cox
• Create a weather app UI with 3D-like illustrations → By Diana Malewicz
• Interaction metaphors → By Mark Brenchley

Collective update: the unique illustrations of Shreya Damle →

News & ideas

• Better computers → Great essay on making computers better.
• Copying → Is that the way design works?
• Audio principles → Converting visual design principles into audio. By Luke Manimala.
• Designing fast food → Great tutorial on food branding in The Simpsons.

Featured work: Weronika Marianna →

Tools & resources

• Tyrus → A digital toolkit for freelance illustrators.
• Layout projection → Animating browser layouts at 60fps.
• Figma variants → Bridging design and code with Variants.
• Phosphor icons → Flexible icon family for interfaces and diagrams.

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