The UX of Among Us, chaos in design, dead chatbots
Tags: startup, hotthisweek, design, productivity
Published: 2020-10-24 13:34:25

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title: The UX of Among Us, chaos in design, dead chatbots
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#### _Your weekly list of curated design resources, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective._

Question everything.

- [**Gamification**](https://uxdesign.cc/are-we-really-enhancing-or-just-manipulating-ethics-of-design-gamification-c409afff58e9?sk=31bc827f8bf4f7398628b71c1af1bda1) →  
Are we really enhancing or just manipulating?
- [**Bad design**](https://uxdesign.cc/bad-design-kills-eight-300f9623cb61?sk=fde20890b0764748fe1742db7b65bbc6) →  
Never-published article by Alan Cooper, 2002.  
By [Alan Cooper](https://medium.com/u/b1fa02015e7f)
- [**COVID denial**](https://uxdesign.cc/how-cognitive-biases-heuristics-can-encourage-covid-denial-cd806fd167ff?source=friends_link&sk=bcfaeffcaa069148c49eb65191c0e18d) →  
How cognitive biases can perpetuate denial.  
By [Carolynn Johnson, Ph.D.](https://medium.com/u/cc9a0666ac14)


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### Top stories this week

![](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/900/0*BO5yTy2VGVIK9461.png)

[**From tasks to tricks: the UX of Among Us**](https://uxdesign.cc/from-tasks-to-tricks-the-ux-of-among-us-d469b45dba22?source=friends_link&sk=4f14118310153e59bb573b8ec8a5beec) →  
By [Christian Paneda](https://medium.com/u/f07516b32e2b)

![](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/900/0*jyMkHKUNwP0TwaZr.png)

[**An intro to object-oriented UX and how to do it**](https://uxdesign.cc/an-introduction-to-object-oriented-ux-and-how-to-do-it-829bf6b248a1?sk=5f43b49620aae9f592456ddbb79be92d) →  
By [Lindsay Eryn](https://medium.com/u/7ef268067e1)

![](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/900/0*YxEhZyBwemDBGuSS.png)

[**10 directions to take your UX career**](https://uxdesign.cc/10-directions-to-take-your-ux-career-668e14abb692?sk=ae95676f2845b87cfe07fc10b5637a93) →  
By [Danny Sapio](https://medium.com/u/ea241d603214)

![](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/900/0*Kn4F8-t16hGetCe5.png)

[**Make it fun: chaos in Product Design**](https://uxdesign.cc/make-it-fun-chaos-in-product-design-bf54ecd17735?sk=a34c6272157c551a8e05ce8175883338) →  
By [Gabriel Valdivia](https://medium.com/u/cafd3fe907fa)

![](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/900/0*qsdeGDrs1fDQDfQP.png)

[**UI cheat sheet: The 5 love languages of the web**](https://uxdesign.cc/ui-cheat-sheet-the-5-love-languages-of-the-web-8754c365dfe5?sk=f21b9b9070b68de4c3627ddb5f8e52bd) →  
By [Tess Gadd](https://medium.com/u/9e48700a9ecd)

More stories:

- [Livestream UX: explorations on threads and replies](https://uxdesign.cc/livestream-ux-explorations-on-threads-and-replies-950a9495c81c)  
By [Ryan Hatch](https://medium.com/u/8bb895fd0eb8)
- [Who are we excluding through our reliance on tech during COVID-19?](https://uxdesign.cc/who-are-we-excluding-through-our-increased-reliance-on-technology-during-covid-19-b7758a306fbe?source=friends_link&sk=6f59a21ae76a98807a17aa4dcc69acf1)  
By [Gabi Mitchem-Evans](https://medium.com/u/833ec9f24a79)
- [Your first attempt at making anything accessible will be awful](https://uxdesign.cc/your-first-attempt-at-making-anything-accessible-will-be-awful-f370dca7a326?sk=8468d71f81337161c512cde4983c4dc5)  
By [Sheri Byrne-Haber, CPACC](https://medium.com/u/260ccf64b894)
- [7 (more) tips to quickly improve your UIs](https://uxdesign.cc/7-more-tips-to-quickly-improve-your-uis-1c2e8f446777?sk=503a3e0e41cf6ddb4141bbe080d71030)  
By [Marc Andrew](https://medium.com/u/2067a89cc386)
- [Flushing mistrust in tech](https://uxdesign.cc/flushing-mistrust-in-tech-2be16a655268)  
By [Catriona Campbell](https://medium.com/u/5caedf6b6ee9)

### News & ideas

- [**Is this real life?**](https://julian.digital/2020/09/25/is-this-real-life/) →  
How social media made conspiracy addictive.
- [**Time traveler**](https://www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/2020) →  
Which words were added when you were born?
- [**My chatbot is dead**](https://uxdesign.cc/my-chatbot-is-dead-8e6784fca05?source=friends_link&sk=a12b4c19bba4737f04fbff2e3255cdb9) →  
Why yours should probably be too.  
By [Adrian Zumbrunnen](https://medium.com/u/462f81313fad)

![](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*tdFEkN7vrFsI2I6I.jpg)

![](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/818/0*Xl5foyu0RNuOGpyV.gif)

![](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/818/0*A--j1cA35GwcURGj.gif)

[**Featured work: The Map**](https://vimeo.com/469980256) →

### Tools & resources

- [**Good line height**](https://www.thegoodlineheight.com/) →  
Easily calculate it to fit the baseline grid.
- [**Echo chat**](https://eo.chat/) →  
Voice messaging for teams, auto transcribed.
- [**Responsive height**](https://ishadeed.com/article/responsive-design-height/) →  
Testing things vertically.


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