Google AMP’s Dark Patterns, Framer Motion, UX Writing — and more UX links this week
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Published: 2019-07-15 12:32:45

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title: Google AMP’s Dark Patterns, Framer Motion, UX Writing — and more UX links this week
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#### _A weekly selection of design links, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective._

![](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*YWlSOuJ5QmG8jDmG.jpg)

[**Honestly, it depends**](https://dev.to/fabriciot/honestly-it-depends-1hca-temp-slug-3308433) →  
No design change is impossible to be done. But every design change means a trickle-down impact in other sections of the product, on brand perception, and on the experience KPIs.

- [**Dear Google**](https://bradleytaunt.com/stop-crawling-google/) →  
I’m blocking you from my website — a thorough analysis of Google AMP’s dark patterns.
- [**Chaos Design**](http://mrmrs.cc/writing/chaos-design/) →  
Before the robots take our jobs, can we please get them to help us do some good work?
- [**Responsive Roadmaps**](https://matthewstrom.com/writing/responsive-roadmaps) →  
 The map of reality is not reality. Even the best maps are imperfect.


### Stories from the community

![](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/566/0*4tTe7jBL3qJHr7l2.jpg)

[**Complex user experiences**](https://uxdesign.cc/complex-user-experiences-9a8ca46d4b36) →  
Complexity is hard to define, but we recognize it when we see it.

![](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/566/0*rIWAh4pFEiC8WPiR.jpg)

[**Interaction design and its 5 dimensions**](https://uxdesign.cc/interaction-design-and-its-dimensions-39ca7e1d09f0) →  
Why animations are just 1 of 5 dimensions of design.

![](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/566/0*VkGO31QRuTsrFuPI.jpg)

[**Building a design system: typography**](https://uxdesign.cc/building-a-design-system-where-to-start-part-4-typography-5065b8d360c) →  
One of the building blocks for a solid design system.

### Food for thought

- [**Experience strategy needs to be oblique**](https://uxdesign.cc/experience-strategy-needs-to-be-oblique-b37a2c54faba) →
- [**A UX writer by any other name…**](https://uxdesign.cc/a-ux-writer-by-any-other-name-8889647e7b01) →
- [**Why customer support is a UX job**](https://uxdesign.cc/customer-support-is-a-ux-job-d179a3b8946) →

### News & ideas

- [**STEM Role Models**](https://medium.com/nevertheless-podcast/stem-role-models-posters-2404424b37dd) →  
Poster of amazing female role models in science.
- [**Netflix Hangouts**](https://netflixhangouts.com/) →  
Watch Netflix at work without anyone noticing it.
- [**Instagram + AI**](https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613930/instagram-is-using-ai-to-stop-people-posting-abusive-comments/) →  
Instagram using AI to stop abusive comments.
- [**DYI Social**](https://runyourown.social/) →  
How to run a social network site for your friends.

![](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*wgsSo5pAFGNzf_rR.png)

[**By Allen Hsu**](https://uxdesign.cc/jpg-vs-png-vs-gif-vs-svg-aefeca89f61) →

### Tools & resources

- [**Framer Motion**](https://www.framer.com/blog/posts/introducing-framer-motion/) →  
Production-ready motion library for React.
- [**Shape Up**](https://basecamp.com/shapeup) →  
A free book by the makers of Basecamp.
- [**Brutalist Web Kit**](https://www.and.co/brutalism) →  
Free brutalism artboards to jump on the trend.
- [**Pocket Biases**](https://pocket-biases.glideapp.io/) →  
Every cognitive bias in your pocket.

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