Figma for coding, multi-platform design systems, anti-racism chatbot — and more UX this week

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Maurice Woods: Your career isn’t the only measurement of success →

“I do feel the pressure to be a manager, but not by my team at Microsoft, but by the industry in total. So much of what we work for as designers come down to being a Director, VP, or head of design. At times, as an IC, I feel as though I am limiting my career opportunities because not every company supports a principal IC position.”

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Stories from the community

How to make an LGBTQ+ inclusive survey →

By Mei Ke

Designing a chatbot to flag racism in companies →

By Rosie Maharjan

Your UX is only as good as your organization →

By Wojtek Kutyla

Writing my first Figma plugin as a designer →

By Lennon Cheng

3 tips for Junior Designers looking for their first job →

By Michal Malewicz

More top stories:

• We’ve evolved past flat design. Where are we headed next? → By Bharat Arimilli
• Web Brutalism, seamfulness, and Notion → By Brandon Dorn
• Your next persona will be non-human — tools for environment-centered designers → By Monika Sznel
• How to solve a design problem? → By José Torre
• Retraining your ethnographic muscles for design ethnography → By Dr Benjamin Leclair

News & ideas

• Trillion dollars → Visualizing what a trillion dollars look like.
• AVIF has landed → A new, performance-optimized image format.
• Multi-systems → Introduction to multi-platform design systems.
• Observing order → An Investigation into ‘Order’ and ‘Chaos’. By Mark O'Neill

Tools & resources

• PlatformAbuse.org → A guide to safer product development.
• Git live → Like Figma, for code.
• CSS perspective → Diving into the perspective CSS attribute.
• System health → How to measure the health of a design system.

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