A weekly selection of design links, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective.

• Shared Systems → Design systems as a shared product language. By Mariusz Ciesla
• Password Problem → Why passwords are ultimately a design problem. By Khoi Vinh
• Dribbblish Designer → Why you shouldn’t hire based on Dribbble shots.

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Stories from the community

Design Systems and Systems Design: what’s the difference? →

By Donnie D'Amato

10 rules of thumb in UI design →

By Danny Sapio

What if the Apple Watch was less annoying? →

By Josh Madwed

More top stories:

• Why graphic design + UI seem to have cannibalized the term UX? → By Ruth González García
• Focus on the experience, the interface might follow → By Remco Snijders
• Why bad design happens to good people → By Ken Kraemer
• Designing across margins → By Mark Lester C. Lacsamana
• Twitter’s algorithm suspended my account — the design community helped restore it → By Jose Coronado
• Using content strategy to present your research findings → By Rachel McConnell
• Designing in a complex and technical domain? Try this → By Tina L. Zeng

News & ideas

• New Atlantic → The Atlantic’s new visual identity is just brilliant.
• Bad Internet → The internet didn’t turn out the way we hoped…
• GitHub Archive → Preserving open source software for the future.
• Semantic Sidenotes → Assigning semantic HTML to web sidenotes.

Tools & resources

• Front-End in 2019 → Results from the 2019 front-end tooling survey.
• Elpha → A hub where women in tech talk candidly online.
• New Figma Plugins → Most recent additions to the Figma plugin library.
• Basecamp Personal → A free Basecamp plan for freelancers, students, and personal projects.

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