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Issue 412

Articles

The Creative Switch
The basic recipe for good ideas is really simple: Just create a lot of options and then pick the best one.

Hostile Patterns in Error Messages
Premature error messages, aggressively styled fields, and unnecessarily disruptive system-status messages feel bad-mannered and increase cognitive load for users during otherwise simple tasks.

Designing the Perfect Button
Everything you need to know about what makes a button great.

Designing The Perfect Mobile Navigation UX
When designing navigation on mobile, we don’t have to rely on slide-in-menus or nested accordions.

Sponsor

How to save time for your entire product team
Product teams that use Figma could save over 10 hours a week by cutting down on the endless back-and-forth between design and development teams. See how

Tools and Resources

Womp
3D for anyone in the browser.

Mockup
Sketch out your UX projects without paper.

UX Portfolio

Leah Lee
Leah is a product designer and grad student at Carnegie Mellon University with a passion for 3D and AR/VR.

UX Job

Product Designer at Notion (San Francisco, CA)
Notion is looking for a designer who can balance vision, craft, speed, and business potential.


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Last But Not Least

A UX teardown of the Google Ads platform 💸
Google Ads made over 200 billion last year but is flawed, inconsistent and a demonstration that operating at a large scale can create inefficiencies.

β€œI alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.”
β€” Mother Teresa

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