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“When the layoffs caught up with me, I used to be relieved. I had been secretly hoping I could be next because I felt stuck after having worked on the identical products for 12 years (6 years on user documentation and one other 6 years on UX writing). I had tried on the lookout for other opportunities but just wasn’t very lively because I still had a job. I believed this might be a very good change.”

By Felicia Wu

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  “Modals are the crutch of the inarticulate designer and developer. While there are real, good uses for them, many modals are disruptive, invasive, and confusing, used as an interaction junk drawer, hard to flee, poorly accessible, a frustrating user experience on small screens, and blocking the user’s interaction with the parent window.”
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  “Albert Munsell, an artist and professor of art on the Massachusetts Normal Art School desired to create a rational option to describe color that might use decimal notation as a substitute of color names which he could use to show his students about color.”
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  “Consistency is a word you hear lots in tech. Designers speak about it (don’t play the “drink if you hear this word” game with this word at a design systems conference), developers speak about it, everyone! But in the case of consistency, it’s essential to acknowledge that consistency comes in several flavors.”

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