Setting up your presentations, skeptical designers, push notifications — and more UX this week
Tags: startup, hotthisweek, growthhacking, design
Published: 2019-09-07 17:50:33

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


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[**The importance of setting up your design work before presenting it**](https://dev.to/fabriciot/the-importance-of-setting-up-your-design-work-before-you-present-it-4j9c-temp-slug-8292039) →

Successful design reviews have less to do with the specific design decisions you are presenting, and more to do with aligned expectations between what colleagues _think_ they will see and what they _actually_ see in that session.

- [**Harmful HCI**](https://www.jussipasanen.com/human-centred-design-considered-harmful/) →  
When is Human-Centered Design harmful?
- [**Comparison UX**](https://baymard.com/blog/user-friendly-comparison-tools) →  
3 design tips for user-friendly ‘compare’ tools.
- [**Position: Absolute**](https://marinaaisa.com/blog/designing-web-absolute-position/) →  
Optimizing design and dev with web UI tools.


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### Stories from the community

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[**Why Facebook, Medium, and other companies don’t ask for your design degree**](https://uxdesign.cc/designer-jobs-why-do-you-still-require-a-degree-in-design-fedd73cfc150?source=friends_link&sk=53829dd792fba03e2d532952ad4be555) →  
By [Stan Reimgen](https://medium.com/u/84122a64a17f)

![](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/728/0*6aVXLE8ZKQh_gU-H.jpg)

[**Skeptical designers are good designers**](https://uxdesign.cc/skeptical-designers-are-good-designers-b1077c0ad75a?source=friends_link&sk=30d4cb62454930bf3c399a586d99d07d) →  
By [Michael McWatters](https://medium.com/u/4e0bea5561d9)

![](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/728/0*TasuKd4vJ-TasgVw.jpg)

[**Stop overcomplicating your personas, start prototyping more**](https://uxdesign.cc/stop-overcomplicating-your-personas-and-start-prototyping-more-1b9a3fca35c9?source=friends_link&sk=b662c08c8efd2cd0e8c78944205dfdb4) →  
By [UX Deer](https://medium.com/u/cac8380969b)

More top stories:

- [**Five things to look out for when hiring a designer**](https://uxdesign.cc/five-things-to-look-out-for-when-hiring-a-designer-eb288879cca8?source=friends_link&sk=2bad9bca560161792bf54d71917bf7f7) →  
By [Reinoud Schuijers](https://medium.com/u/e0848b675f5)
- [**Avoiding diminishing returns in the product design process**](https://uxdesign.cc/avoiding-diminishing-returns-in-the-product-design-process-54a5929b1a96?source=friends_link&sk=76686a63f9a976e902fd69ed98ca76cc) →  
By [David Portelli](https://medium.com/u/bf18b5a41f40)
- [**Figma in the classroom**](https://uxdesign.cc/figma-in-the-classroom-439814cd9e6d?source=friends_link&sk=03c20f32430283efd197c7097543dcb0) →  
By [Meylin Bayryamali](https://medium.com/u/1f5088684cf3)
- [**The subtle technique that Mailchimp uses to emotionally hook customers**](https://uxdesign.cc/the-subtle-technique-that-mailchimp-uses-to-emotionally-hook-customers-719acffbb27f?source=friends_link&sk=ceb09b13c2a01e8b685485d9cec35a41) →  
By [Sumit Hegde](https://medium.com/u/161ab0b0bc28)
- [**Design validation mathematics**](https://uxdesign.cc/design-validation-mathematics-47da1c92b07f?source=friends_link&sk=e32fea11c4f940d0b1600bc1bdf51a49) →  
By [Dzmitry Basenka](https://medium.com/u/7d33a75bc85)
- [**Don’t feel bad, user test your competitors**](https://uxdesign.cc/dont-feel-bad-user-test-your-competitors-1efbaf662c1?source=friends_link&sk=3b757e2c7742f3ebe24e094ac47d0198) →  
By [Daniël De Wit](https://medium.com/u/9d393a295b)
- [**Should motion design guidelines appear in Design Systems?**](https://uxdesign.cc/should-motion-design-guidelines-appear-in-design-systems-yes-9afa36efbc21?source=friends_link&sk=c83da5974842538cd0a70f7e0a82183c) →  
By [Adir SL](https://medium.com/u/33e023e403b)

### News & ideas

- [**Product vs. Feature**](https://svpg.com/product-vs-feature-teams/) →  
A thoughtful article on product vs. feature teams.
- [**Large Devices**](https://www.nngroup.com/articles/large-devices-important-tasks/) →  
Why users do important tasks on larger screens.
- [**Dumb Passwords**](https://twitter.com/dumb_pw_rules) →  
A twitter acct that reports dumb password rules.
- [**Less Data Isn’t Bad**](https://timkadlec.com/remembers/2019-08-30-less-data-doesnt-mean-a-lesser-experience/) →  
Users with Save-Data enabled don’t deserve a lesser UX.

### Tools & resources

- [**Logos in Figma**](https://www.brandfetch.io/extension/plugin-figma/) →  
Plugin to bring company logos into Figma.
- [**Pushing Too Hard**](https://stephaniewalter.design/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-not-fck-up-push-notifications/) →  
A guide to not f#!@ing up push notifications.  
By [Stéphanie Walter](https://medium.com/u/10705d7f3221)
- [**Eagle**](https://eagle.cool/) →  
A design library to get you 10x better organized.
- [**Your Tempo**](https://www.yourtempo.co/) →  
Yet another email client claims to help you focus.

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