Issue #71: 👀All the launches! 🚀Figma 3.0, 🚀Zeplin 2.0, 🚀Adobe XD Updated

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Issue #71, Thursday June 21

What a week! Before jumping into all the new tools, here are 2 resources that you or a friend may find supportive for your work:

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Now for the tools – if you haven’t heard already, today 🙌 Figma launched 3.0 of their app, bringing upgraded prototyping to rival InVision! 👀 Check it all out in the tools section, along with these epic highlights:

🚀 Zeplin 2.0
☀️ Adobe XD June update
👀 UI Goodies: all the best UI resources

Enjoy!

7 Top Stories.

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By Alissa Lee

1. Stop Pushing “UX Designer” as a Job Title

Alissa asks if companies favor ‘unicorns’ with mediocre skills in many areas, as opposed to those with a depth of strengths in fewer areas of UX.

By Naïma van Esch

2. How to design for AI-enabled User Interfaces

What to keep in mind when designing for AI — a black box full of algorithms

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By Max Tsvetkov

3. How to choose a company for growth of a Designer?

Max advises on what to look for in employer to ensure a bright design future.

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By Margie Mateo Villanueva

4. 5 Lessons From Countless Objections to Research

“There’s not enough time… We don’t have the budget.” Margie looks into the root of such objections to research.

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By Alec

5. Where do UX Researchers come from?

I bet you a sandwich that if you ask 10 researchers how they got into research, you’ll end up with 10 different answers.

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By Amr Khalifeh

6. A simple fix to iOS media control buttons

Amr analyses the iOS control center buttons, suggesting a fix to an annoying problem.

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By Adi Chakravarty

7. Forget the notch, why the chin?

An informed rebuttal to ‘notched’ Android smartphone releases.

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11 Tools and Resources.

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Zeplin Gazette

1. Introducing Zeplin 2.0

Components, renaming assets, full size thumbnails in Dashboard, revamped interface for layer properties, Styleguide and Dashboard— check out what’s new!