UX Writing Weekly #155

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Closing the gap between lip service and practice
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WHAT’S INSIDE ✍️


Issue #155 (Oct 27th, 2021)
  • UX’s dirty little secret
  • Where low/no-code meets UX
  • Words of wisdom and warning from Don Norman
  • Wrong answers only!



ARTICLES 📰

🤫 There is a rift running through the heart of UX and product design. On one side, there are well-intentioned design teams who conduct research, present findings, identify pain points, and create user-centered solutions. On the other, executives who only wish to pay lip service to these practices—a sort of “UX theater.”

Explore some of the causes and solutions to this open secret in:

UX design has a dirty secret


👨‍💻 Here at the Hub, we love a good low-code or no-code tool (LCNC). But does their limited flexibility hinder our ability to create exceptional user experiences? And what does the future hold for LCNC and UX?

Merging UX design with low-code & no-code platforms

♻️ Words of wisdom and warning from the godfather of UX, Don Norman: “Climate change is a symptom to a problem that designers had a hand in creating … But if design is going to offer solutions, we need to change design education to prepare students for tackling these issues.”

Bad design is bad for the planet




MICROCOPY BITE 💬

Klaviyo’s confirmation message after a password-reset request is friendly, crisp, and actionable.




TRENDING IN UX 🐦
 



UPSKILL: PODCAST 🎙️

Case studies: Get them right and you're golden. Get them wrong and it's a snoozefest. So get them right with: From case study writing to writing robots with Jan Haaland.



JOBS 👔


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And as always:



PORTFOLIO 🎨


Meet Tom Waterton from Hampshire, England. Meet his portfolio, too. Three projects, bullet points, easy to read. Be like Tom.

https://tomwaterton.com/portfolio




FROM THE ARCHIVES 🗝️

Once, we made a list of crazy words in English. Yet it remains incomplete. So, have anything you want to add?

Top 43 Crazy Words in English (and what they mean)



KICKS 'N' GIGGLES 🤦

What's this app called again?



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