The State of UX in 2024: Enter Late-stage UX
Pretty bleak outlook on the role AI and economic pressure will take on the UX industry.
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Time Since Launch
Fascinating product. Counts up from the moment you pull the pin, and battery lasts 150 years. It can be restarted without losing the time after that as it counts for up to 1 million days, or over 2,738 years.
Starbucks Creative Expression
Very cool (if not gratuitously complicated) scale animation showing the brand expression range of various touchpoints at Starbucks.
Untold narrative as a Head of Design
Casper co-founders want to sell you another box. This time, it’s a battery
Don’t Fix Things. Write a New Story
"When two or more people with authority and influence (formal or otherwise) have competing narratives for what's broken, why, and what to do about it, you can end up with a narrative stalemate." ... "Your job, in effect, is to weave a story where people can still play the hero and protagonist of their narrative while at the same time getting people to row in the same direction, united by some common cause. Great leaders foster conditions where the "actors" can shape their collective narrative instead of trying to own and micromanage it."
What I Learned as a Product Designer at Apple
McDonald’s Theory
From Figma’s design team: How to run a design critique
Lots of good examples of formats and exercises to try to wrangle design critiques. We've gone through so many iterations and adjustments and are due for some more coming up soon, so this was helpful today.
Wearing the Number One Headband
What to expect as the Head of a department