A/B fails, Figma community, awesome plugins — and more design links this week
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Published: 2019-10-26 13:59:12

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

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[**All them A/B tests that never happened**](https://dev.to/fabriciot/all-them-a-b-tests-that-never-happened-4mmh-temp-slug-6803165) →  
When A/B tests become less about user validation and more about having a escape hatch for lack of product vision.

- [**UI Learnability**](https://www.nngroup.com/articles/measure-learnability/) →  
How to measure learnability of a user interface.
- [**No Dropdowns**](https://designsmarts.co/the-problem-with-dropdowns/) →  
The issue with dropdowns & what to use instead.
- [**Accessible Buttons**](https://equinusocio.dev/blog/accessible-icon-buttons-with-masks-and-svgs) →  
Building icon buttons with masks and SVG.


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### Stories from the community

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[**How I used decision tree to decide what’s next after college**](https://uxdesign.cc/how-i-used-decision-tree-to-decide-whats-next-after-college-4ed98f6a085a?source=friends_link&sk=395bc7675259ac9b7033bb4283b9fbcb) →  
By [Nikhil Yadav](https://medium.com/u/3017bc89c88a)

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[**Does Instagram make bad navigation good?**](https://uxdesign.cc/instagram-makes-bad-navigation-good-174285d9e0bd?source=friends_link&sk=bbf9e3036e72ca4b1fc61c0b87b8ac5f) →  
By [Michal Malewicz](https://medium.com/u/fde1eb3eb589)

![](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/728/0*I4XM0hvMQATiVp6N.jpg)

[**10 time-savers that I use daily as a UI designer**](https://uxdesign.cc/10-time-savers-that-i-use-every-day-as-a-ui-designer-6f45bdcbaea7?source=friends_link&sk=288ab27acd9e541c62c82372e0e0962b) →  
By [Danny Sapio](https://medium.com/u/ea241d603214)

More top stories:

- [**A case against “pixel perfect” design**](https://uxdesign.cc/a-case-against-pixel-perfect-design-ce00cd3eabc9?source=friends_link&sk=4466528f2e5601851743c99fae197b3d) →  
By [Chuánqí Sun](https://medium.com/u/cf98f775c74a)
- [**Designing with memory in mind**](https://uxdesign.cc/designing-with-memory-in-mind-f109c15f12ff?source=friends_link&sk=9b2bb0a51341fdadb813e34c9850dedb) →  
By [Dale Owen](https://medium.com/u/1b3084ba849c)
- [**AI is the UX (is it, though?)**](https://uxdesign.cc/ai-is-the-ux-is-it-though-f688b00ca9a?source=friends_link&sk=8bf902b160d49f755688e6249e9d3d92) →  
By [Chris Noessel](https://medium.com/u/d49781849b4b)
- [**A deep dive into the Surface Duo’s virtual keyboard**](https://uxdesign.cc/a-deep-dive-into-the-surface-duos-virtual-keyboard-c33221ad3bd7?source=friends_link&sk=9719d4a60d8b7140407b6b9932ada7f9) →  
By [Christian Cantrell](https://medium.com/u/cdb88f053ff9)
- [**Getting the right feedback, and managing priorities**](https://uxdesign.cc/getting-the-right-feedback-and-managing-priorities-my-two-cents-on-how-to-improve-the-design-e2babba92cae?source=friends_link&sk=a9ecf408aa76b26c3089affda4cba1e4) →  
By [Shu Jiang](https://medium.com/u/85c8ba4cb2fb)
- [**6 tactics to maximize UX research in Agile**](https://uxdesign.cc/6-tactics-to-maximize-ux-research-in-agile-c68093e098ff?source=friends_link&sk=69f34975f8c32da552b433478c31d238) →  
By [Kuppy T.](https://medium.com/u/becc651a681d)
- [**A mini-guide to font combinations**](https://uxdesign.cc/mini-tutorial-a-guide-to-font-combinations-a40c30b20fc0?source=friends_link&sk=c1ea1dea5c534249add2a0fff2b53333) →  
By [Cameron Chapman](https://medium.com/u/3a1f15cedbc8)

### News & ideas

- [**Figma Community**](https://www.figma.com/blog/introducing-figma-community/) →  
Publish live design files that anyone in the world.
- [**Earth Overview**](https://www.over-view.com/) →  
Imagery on how human activity shapes our Earth.
- [**One-Page Dungeon**](https://watabou.itch.io/one-page-dungeon) →  
Programmatically-generated RPG maps.
- [**Age of Nonsense**](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/sep/11/what-does-living-fully-mean-welcome-to-the-age-of-pseudo-profound-nonsense) →  
Living fully? That’s pseudo-profound nonsense.

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![](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1000/1*ke5UhgPnWArYKjkVo0Ds6w.jpeg)<figcaption><a href="https://actuallystudio.co.uk/">Featured work: Actually Studio</a> →</figcaption>

### Tools & resources

- [**Awesome Plugins**](https://flawlessapp.io/designplugins) →  
Best plugins for Sketch, XD, Figma, in one place.
- [**Human Words**](https://medium.com/curiosity-by-design/the-handy-list-of-human-words-a70f13dde55e) →  
Plain language words for sounding more human.
- [**Sketch Styler**](http://www.sketchstyler.com/) →  
Auto assign styles to all of your un-styled layers.
- [**Usability Posters**](https://sidigital.co/blog/the-10-usability-heuristics-free-posters-for-your-design-office/) →  
Usability heuristics in free posters for your office.


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