Do products dream of living forever? — and more UX links this week
Tags: designthinking, ux, design, startup
Published: 2019-06-09 11:44:15

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

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[**Journey: lessons from the amazing journey of being a designer**](https://journey.uxdesign.cc/) →
About two years ago I set myself the goal of writing articles that invite reflection more than anything; topics that can help newcomer designers step back from the day-to-day craft and think about our discipline at large.

### Food for thought

- [**On business & craft**](https://shakuro.com/blog/the-business-of-design-making-profit-without-killing-passion/) →
Finding the balance between profitability and the passion for your craft.
- [**On paying attention**](https://hbr.org/2019/05/to-come-up-with-better-ideas-practice-paying-attention) →
It’s hard to see new things if you don’t know how to pay attention and cut through the noise.
- [**On sharing insights**](https://ux.shopify.com/onboard-once-share-insights-often-76d4a82e782d) →
Shopify UX team on delighting your UX team with a design system contribution.


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### From the community

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[**Do products dream of living forever?**](https://uxdesign.cc/do-products-dream-of-living-forever-c44240406f6c?source=friends_link&sk=95101b1863d29e0678a030fd8c0245af) →
A designer’s dive into longevity in software products.
By [Preethi Shreeya](https://medium.com/u/d558dad921b)

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[**Dungeons & Dragons & Design Thinking**](https://uxdesign.cc/dungeons-dragons-design-thinking-688a0b7cca3f?source=friends_link&sk=0f6211c782292c96eb95d99ba3a7d6ef) →
Role-playing games are also about developing empathy.
By [Ploy Buraparate](https://medium.com/u/df5292d70760)

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[**Design principles are dead**](https://uxdesign.cc/design-principles-are-dead-634eee4a6ded?source=friends_link&sk=e73945b84eee064761b1b04a7eb1441c) →
The more obscure, the more they are misused as an alibi to hide behind.
By [Francesco Bertelli](https://medium.com/u/5ae618d5071b)

![](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/566/0*opP5xQVtIswsqOtI.jpg)

[**Visual hierarchy: design principles in action**](https://uxdesign.cc/visual-hierarchy-be332b615c06?source=friends_link&sk=1b905758492d7ec3dd88d8dd1926d439) →
Contrast, whitespace, proximity, symmetry, and more.
By [Harper Atlas](https://medium.com/u/e189e8cd4b93)

More top stories:

- [**How to structure your UX portfolio**](https://uxdesign.cc/how-to-structure-your-ux-portfolio-4df6928a8242?source=friends_link&sk=88b3a5ed9750317310b51dc33e08de88) →
By [Ben Taylor](https://medium.com/u/64106187c4ed)
- [**How being a salesperson made me a better designer**](https://uxdesign.cc/how-being-a-salesperson-has-made-me-a-better-product-designer-d56cfba5c5f5?source=friends_link&sk=e7a2d0d67d89f16f42bf85221d4b149b) →
By [Richard Andhika](https://medium.com/u/f7f738d14cc)
- [**UX candidates are asking the wrong questions**](https://uxdesign.cc/ux-candidates-are-asking-the-wrong-questions-c3e4e554c480?source=friends_link&sk=ff4c2b527b33403ded3cf4ac46c69d70) →
By [Chris Feix](https://medium.com/u/8115aaca6d17)
- [**Two types of cost-effective and easy usability tests**](https://uxdesign.cc/two-types-of-cost-effective-and-easy-usability-tests-cef41e4c13f?source=friends_link&sk=7e60f50affb5464b2446c94f6d80780c) →
By [Marina Popovichenko](https://medium.com/u/e6d71bcf3c9d)
- [**Strategies in adopting and scaling user research within 1.5 year**](https://uxdesign.cc/strategies-in-adopting-and-scaling-user-research-within-1-5-year-ad7ca28b3490?source=friends_link&sk=3abe0175196775a5a2dfdf4ec9b88fe0) →
By [Luky Primadani](https://medium.com/u/53305ea864cf)
- [**Are designers preying on customer anxieties thanks to insights?**](https://uxdesign.cc/are-ux-designers-preying-on-customer-anxieties-thanks-to-ux-insights-545cf41d5f58?source=friends_link&sk=3116e184c0a5d8303d6fa9b51a4adc15) →
By [George Miles](https://medium.com/u/2f992228d46c)
- [**What I’ve learnt designing content for a global rider community**](https://uxdesign.cc/what-ive-learnt-designing-content-for-a-global-rider-community-bbb5047bdd6d?source=friends_link&sk=e76f8495ffdd142bc029c1d832b7f88b) →
By [Rachel McConnell](https://medium.com/u/bfb4152b65a6)

### News & ideas

- [**Screenless luxury**](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/23/sunday-review/human-contact-luxury-screens.html) →
Screens used to be for the elite; now avoiding them is a status symbol.
- [**UI bot**](https://www.uibot.app/) →
An experiment on how far one could automate the generation of visual designs.
- [**Kids, the game**](https://www.cartoonbrew.com/installations/michael-freis-kids-is-a-short-film-game-and-installation-rolled-into-one-175104.html) →
A mesmerizing iOS art game about the human collective.
- [**3-act structure**](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-apply-three-act-structure-art-design-james-buckhouse/) →
How to apply the famous structure to art, storytelling, and design.

### Tools & resources

- [**Landing Pagr**](https://www.landingpagr.com/) →
A free editing tool to write your landing page copy on.
- [**AMB-1**](https://amb-1.com/) →
An automatic mood board creator; just add images to a Dropbox folder.
- [**Full Stack Open**](https://fullstackopen.com/en/) →
A free course about modern web development in collab with the University of Helsinki.
- [**Diez**](https://diez.org/) →
A unified design system language across codebases, platforms, and teams.

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