As design elements are created, they are often named after real-world metaphors. Over time those real-world metaphorical connections get lost. Megan Ng has taken the time to document the metaphors from common UI components.

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Proximity is one of the most powerful principles of visual design. Neointeraction Design explains why in this post:

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Good buttons are not easy to design. Domas Markevičius has written a nice summary of how they approach button design at Wix.

wix-ux.com/designing-the-…

When we deliver poor UX to our customers, we often see a boomerang effect, where a number of costs come back to haunt us.

@richmironov takes this a step further by discussing product waste that is within cost but doesn't improve anything for the business

mironov.com/waste/

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Here Nick Bowmast gives us an excellent analysis of how organizations invest in design. One interpretation is that companies invest in the latter half of the process because they need to compensate for not investing in the front-end of the process.

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Our products and services must facilitate the transformation of our users into a better version of themselves.

Here is the memo from Slack founder Stewart Butterfield before Slack was released detailing how UX needs to expand into the users' entire experience.

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Having strong presentation skills is important when explaining your ideas.

I enjoyed reading this article by Katrine Tjoelsen as she writes about three frameworks that are great ways to think about how you tell the story of your idea.

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“Do the work to understand what success means to your customers and what that looks like in the usage of your service. Measure that behavior. Optimize your product to promote those outcomes.”

— Jeff Gothelf

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Does your organization tolerate, encourage, or reward continuous learning? This is the question that Erika Hall explores in this article:

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“The same way that technical debt accumulates if you don’t pay it down constantly, experience rot must be refactored away on a continual basis.”

— Josh Seiden

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A fantastic case study from Zendesk's Pierre Grenier about how they use their voice of the customer process to study the problems behind suggested feature requests.

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