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Re-evaluate the ethics of your designs
What's inside: UX structure, STEEPLE, design crit, winter redesign, definition of quality, scaling the ladder, and more.
Newsletter • February 23, 2024 • 5 min read
Hey folks,
Here are the top 10 things I found worth sharing and your UX tip of the week.
UX tip of the week
Brush up on how to make design more ethical in your organization with resources and tools collected by Kat Zhou.
How to elevation the design process to a more ethical foundation.
Leverage a toolkit of processes & artifacts to identify and improve ethical gaps.
Top 10 things worth sharing this week
Dave Hora examined the structure of user experience to understand how “UX” works and the critical forces that drive the team’s product development. Related: Elements of User Experience.
Learn about the STEEPLE framework that helsp teams identify specific categories of external, contextual factors that may impact the success of your product or service.
Get the team more comfortable with a culture of collaboration, design critique, and exchange of feedback.
Leverage these designer career level templates in Figma, including skills chart, performance review templates, team calibration, and more.
Dig into lessons learned by AirBnB from redesigning their product this 2023 winter. “Their research team found out that trust and reliability were a huge bottleneck in their experience.”
Does your team have a shared definition of good design quality?
“The real value of design doesn’t come from building better products. It comes from creating better product-building methods.” Pavel Samsonov explored what scaling the design ladder means.
The Mac celebrated its 40th birthday.
The Ratta Supernote e-ink tablet looks like one of the best combinations of a physical meets digital surface. (h/tteevio)
Leverage this PRD google doc template by Kevin Yien if useful.
Thanks for reading!
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Sincerely,
Gerren