New Atlantic, Figma Plugins, Dribbblish Designers — and more UX links this week
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Published: 2019-11-16 20:44:29

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title: New Atlantic, Figma Plugins, Dribbblish Designers — and more UX links this week
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date: 2019-11-16 13:28:07 UTC
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#### _A weekly selection of design links, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective._

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- [**Shared Systems**](https://writing.mariusz.cc/design-systems-as-a-shared-product-language/) →  
Design systems as a shared product language.  
By [Mariusz Ciesla](https://medium.com/u/1de18324494f)
- [**Password Problem**](https://www.subtraction.com/2019/11/12/passwords-are-a-design-problem/) →  
Why passwords are ultimately a design problem.  
By [Khoi Vinh](https://medium.com/u/d4eee21866a1)
- [**Dribbblish Designer**](https://memory.ai/blog/dont-hire-dribbblish-designers) →  
Why you shouldn’t hire based on Dribbble shots.


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### Stories from the community

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[**Design Systems and Systems Design: what’s the difference?**](https://uxdesign.cc/design-systems-and-systems-design-whats-the-difference-b184aa6e5f0d?source=friends_link&sk=b46fb310e05302e9fcfeecc4bb0dc9f8) →  
By [Donnie D'Amato](https://medium.com/u/3b26799739a9)

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[**10 rules of thumb in UI design**](https://uxdesign.cc/10-rules-of-thumb-in-ui-design-aa5f91885444?source=friends_link&sk=30461cc47db1497af259fb0c33d65cdc) →  
By [Danny Sapio](https://medium.com/u/ea241d603214)

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[**What if the Apple Watch was less annoying?**](https://uxdesign.cc/what-if-the-apple-watch-was-less-annoying-8bb42d31b236?source=friends_link&sk=5e07793955bbe11755933c0cf0bd97f9) →  
By [Josh Madwed](https://medium.com/u/c918b9e29e82)

More top stories:

- [**Why graphic design + UI seem to have cannibalized the term UX?**](https://uxdesign.cc/why-graphic-design-and-ui-seem-to-have-cannibalized-the-term-ux-93f53ad0738a?source=friends_link&sk=4cc37cb34471ae467d6e8305f0b4e54a) →  
By [Ruth González García](https://medium.com/u/f2c176eee607)
- [**Focus on the experience, the interface might follow**](https://uxdesign.cc/focus-on-the-experience-the-interface-might-follow-ceb556ec2a4a?source=friends_link&sk=64b17412898100ec6365fbc898f8ac38) →  
By [Remco Snijders](https://medium.com/u/ceabaa3d899)
- [**Why bad design happens to good people**](https://uxdesign.cc/why-bad-design-happens-to-good-people-80d02a44800e?source=friends_link&sk=f351347f283f2142523b4a487969f4f5) →  
By [Ken Kraemer](https://medium.com/u/163c7fadfcc3)
- [**Designing across margins**](https://uxdesign.cc/designing-across-margins-eb52a445369a?source=friends_link&sk=b476c66483a9356e51100b2c5a75affe) →  
By [Mark Lester C. Lacsamana](https://medium.com/u/8c2ff73eb8a0)
- [**Twitter’s algorithm suspended my account — the design community helped restore it**](https://uxdesign.cc/twitters-algorithm-suspended-my-account-the-design-community-help-restore-it-d0976512b6f1?source=friends_link&sk=f43576e827fe6a02959cac87665fa1b3) →  
By [Jose Coronado](https://medium.com/u/c39241b60683)
- [**Using content strategy to present your research findings**](https://uxdesign.cc/using-content-strategy-to-present-your-research-findings-4da3de621fb?source=friends_link&sk=16b3bb7d16970189ad726b6a9b7b6313) →  
By [Rachel McConnell](https://medium.com/u/bfb4152b65a6)
- [**Designing in a complex and technical domain? Try this**](https://uxdesign.cc/designing-in-a-complex-and-technical-domain-try-this-47d657b5d8a3?source=friends_link&sk=1b15dc9bf4e2d9b771df3de87f4bb2b1) →  
By [Tina L. Zeng](https://medium.com/u/735ab29852f1)

### News & ideas

- [**New Atlantic**](https://kottke.org/19/11/a-fresh-look-for-the-atlantic) →  
The Atlantic’s new visual identity is just brilliant.
- [**Bad Internet**](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/14/magazine/internet-future-dream.html) →  
The internet didn’t turn out the way we hoped…
- [**GitHub Archive**](https://archiveprogram.github.com/) →  
Preserving open source software for the future.
- [**Semantic Sidenotes**](https://www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/semantic-sidenotes) →  
Assigning semantic HTML to web sidenotes.

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![](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/720/1*0dT3kQfRxS_KcId3NFjlAw.jpeg)<figcaption><a href="https://www.ignant.com/2019/11/15/israel-a-photographic-narrative-of-suspended-time/">Featured work: Arnaud Freitas</a> →</figcaption>

### Tools & resources

- [**Front-End in 2019**](https://ashleynolan.co.uk/blog/frontend-tooling-survey-2019-results) →  
Results from the 2019 front-end tooling survey.
- [**Elpha**](https://elpha.com/) →  
A hub where women in tech talk candidly online.
- [**New Figma Plugins**](https://mono.company/design/our-favorite-new-figma-plugins/) →  
Most recent additions to the Figma plugin library.
- [**Basecamp Personal**](https://m.signalvnoise.com/launch-basecamp-gets-personal/) →  
A free Basecamp plan for freelancers, students, and personal projects.


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