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Remember to breathe.

• Connected dots → Healthier benchmarks for creative culture.
• Think like a man → To the people who told me to “think like a man”. By Jess Vergara.
• Your Black friends are busy → A growing resource for learning and getting informed about anti-racism.

The UX Collective is a platform to elevate unheard design voices all over the world, reaching over 368,700 designers every week. Curated by Fabricio Teixeira and Caio Braga.

Stories from the community

Does the design community perpetuate impostor syndrome? →

By Trish Willard

Designers, own your feedback →

By Fabricio Teixeira

Where are the Black designers? →

By Zariah Cameron

Top stories this week:

• No, Apple is not moving towards neumorphism → By Rubens Cantuni
• Pixel-snapping in icon design → By Helena Zhang
• What the Apple Newton taught us about UX 27 years ago → By Jesse Freeman
• 47 key lessons for UI & UX designers → By Danny Sapio
• A few thoughts on Dribbble designs → By Frank Huang
• A designer’s guide to successful user testing → By Michelle Chiu
• Specialisation is for insects — be curious! → By Michal Malewicz
• 3 ready-to-use templates for your next testing with users → By Slava Shestopalov

“It is an extraordinary truth of my life that I am biologically more than half white, and yet I have no white people in my genealogy in living memory. No. Voluntary. Whiteness. I am more than half white, and none of it was consensual. White Southern men — my ancestors — took what they wanted from women they did not love, over whom they had extraordinary power, and then failed to claim their children.”

You want a confederate monument? My body is a confederate monument →

News & ideas

• Lights & shadows → To talk about light we have to start in darkness.
• Responsible design → Embed ethical considerations into your process.
• Web dark ages → Notes on the old internet’s design and front-end.
• UI typography → Achieving exceptional typography in your product, by Apple.

Tools & resources

• Good service scale → Assessing the quality of your service.
• Human sounds → UI sounds made by humans for humans.
• Quotebacks → Grab and embed snippets of text from the web.
• Whimsical club → A collection of websites that spark joy.

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