Getting a job in design, a day in VR, emotionally intelligent machines, and more UX this week
What’s hot in UX this week:
What’s hot in UX this week:
A guide for getting a job in design →
Finding a job can be a dreadful, long process. The solution is to face it as you would face any design project: with clear steps and deliverables. Here, we organized the best articles to help you get prepared for each step of the process:
Defining your goal and finding your market fit
Creating your CV and portfolio
Hunting for jobs
Preparing for the interview process
Getting ready for day one
Ok, shall we?
Principles for mobile design →
Using design principles means adding a layer of structure and meaning to your design tactics to help you to make better design decisions. By steven hoober.
Coherent, not consistent →
Teams spend days obsessing about minor design details, while letting core interaction problems in their products go unchecked. By Bruno Bergher.
UX won’t disappear, but adapt →
We need to focus on the intent of the user and design systems that support the user’s tasks much more proactively.
A day in virtual reality →
I woke up on Saturday to the prospect of a full day in VR. I set up my Oculus Rift and downloaded a bunch of apps. Here’s what I learned. By Andrew Coyle.
Data-informed design: minimize the website redesign debate →
More than an online property, a website is a reflection of a company’s brand and its customer experience–and everyone has an opinion when it’s time for a redesign.
8 tips to survive a portfolio presentation →
Designers have a natural gift for selling ideas, services, products, and whatever this thing is, so why do designers stress about the portfolio presentation? By Shawn Sprockett.
It’s time to design emotionally intelligent machines →
The opportunity for brands to forge deep relationships with their users has never been greater. And emotions will make the difference in this new era. By Sophie Kleber.
Design makes AI smarter →
Designers today most likely have been designing for products that use some level of AI for automation. How do we get to the next level? By Elaine Lee.
Voice interfaces are here; are they necessary? →
The role voice assistants will ultimately play in most peoples’ lives still remains to be seen. By Katharine Schwab.
News & Ideas
Apple is now on instagram, posting photos #shotoniphone
Facebook Watch is YouTube’s brand new competitor
Daddy’s car: a song composed by AI, based on existing Beatles songs
You know “above the fold” is a myth, right?
A framework for creating brutalist UX deliverables
Voice AI might be the next frontier of marketing
San Francisco gets its first autonomous ride-hailing service
Swarm has a new design and a clearer value proposition
Yes, the gender pay gap is real in Design
This Brazilian tattoo artist specializes in ugly tattoos
Plotter is a machine designed to design
People are really talking about Zuckerberg for 2020
Applications for Shopify’s Commerce Awards have started
Tools & Resources
Fontface Ninja: a browser extension to try any fonts on any site
Styly is a platform for creating VR spaces without any coding
Hologram is an all-in-one WebVR creation tool
IndoorWay: turn indoor spaces into connected experiences
Purple: project boards that build team harmony
Living styleguides: how to plan one, step by step
Pastel: leave live sticky-note feedback on any website
Speed font: extremely simple CSS font embedding
A report by Awwwards + Google on mobile performance
How to remove that ugly :focus ring from your code
ContentTagger lets you provide structured data for your website
A year ago…
How tools have shaped the role of the designer →
Tools were my first introduction to a hobby that turned into a passion that has become an obsession.
They have been steadily influencing and shaping me as a designer from the first time I sat in front of a computer in elementary school. I would not realize how much they’d impact my life until much much later.
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