Uncomfortable conversations, Apple’s soft-UI, less rigid design systems — and more UX this week

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• Racial gap → Gap between White/Black America, in charts.
• Uncomfortable talk → Honest conversations with a Black man.
• Blatantly racist → Redesigning racist brands is not enough.

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Stories from the community

How Apple makes soft-UI the future →

By Michal Malewicz

Why should you start drawing today? →

By José Torre

500 hours later: It’s okay to make mistakes in user testing →

By Tia Peterson

More top stories:

• Cookie consent is (still) broken → By Davide M. Parrilli
• Your job search sucks, but that doesn’t mean you do → By Alex MacDuff
• What can designers learn from iOS 14 and macOS Big Sur? → By Thalion
• Why great conversationalists are great designers — a framework for System<>User Communication → By Oscar Gonzalez
• Selection controls — UI component series → By Taras Bakusevych
• We have trust issues: the decline of digital trust and how to fix it → By Joshua Leigh
• Serious UX mistakes that might be sabotaging your sales → By Diana Malewicz
• The explorer’s journey: How to build products that help people succeed → By Tyler Tate

Thrilled to announce we have helped select the winners of Adobe Design Scholarship: 10 future designers will receive up to $100,000 each to support their education, along with mentoring and support along their educational journey.

Announcing the winners of the Adobe Design Circle Scholarship →

News & ideas

• Accessible to some → Why most websites are only accessible to some.
• Less rigid systems → Design systems beyond a set of rules to follow.
• Spring physics → The physics behind spring animations.
• Everywhere font → Why this one font is being used everywhere.

Featured project: See in Black →

Tools & resources

• A to Z of AI → Making sense of artificial intelligence, by Google.
• Elevator.js → Fixing those awkward “scroll to top” moments.
• Plash → Make any website your desktop wallpaper.
• Massimo says → One of the finest AI text generators out there.

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