Reading this great article about "UX Trends for 2019" (slightly clickbait title: it's less trends and more bigger ethical questions around how the industry is changing).
https://trends.uxdesign.cc/
The suggested guidelines for creating 'calm tech' really caught my attention as something I'd love to see more of.
The State of UX in 2022

From design tools, to our design process, to the user behaviors that will change the way we design — a list of what to expect for User Experience (UX) Design in the next year.

I'm completely in love with this article by a Shopify illustrator about how companies handle diversity in their visualities.

Points tackled include:
* You can't just make everyone purple and call it diverse
* It's not just diversifying job roles, but actions. Who's pointing at the whiteboard? Who's explaining? Who's giving objects?
* Body language. Who's looking away? Who's making eye contact?
* How many of these problems start with a design team that's not diverse

https://ux.shopify.com/you-cant-just-draw-purple-people-and-call-it-diversity-e2aa30f0c0e8

oh my god this is the cutest username/password UI I have ever seen

Source: https://dribbble.com/shots/4249163-Animated-login-form-avatar

Animated login form avatar

Made an animated SVG login avatar. I've seen a couple of these recently, but both were pre-illustrated and rendered frame-by-frame animations synced to the email input. I wanted to make one with li...

@emaree this is extremely cute and a great idea -- and I say this as someone who has recently discovered an irrational fear of yetis.
@emaree @porsupah That is fantastic! Such a nice idea. 😁
Yeti Login Form v2

Forgot to upload this awhile back after I updated the original. But I added a bunch of improvements under the hood. Visually, there's now some shoulder movement on the arm raise, a show/hide passwo...

@tsia I saw that! It's mega cute, I love the 'show password' peek. :D
@emaree Looks great!I love it! 😍 👍
@emaree that's fuckin' ingenious. Kudos to whoever designed / implemented that!

@emaree so cute!

It reminds me of remembear, where if you give the wrong password multiple times the bear starts sweating https://twitter.com/_AlanCurran/status/1070736375597670401

Alan Curran on Twitter

“@gcluley @Remembear He also watches as you type and starts sweating and facepalms when you get your password wrong....!! 😂 https://t.co/es7BSG6zLr”

Twitter
@emaree you are kidding me i am so overjoyed by this i am going to watch it so many times
@emaree is this not a simple google Material Design css/js ?

@seeh defiiiinitely not. Material Design offers nothing like this out of the box.

Perhaps we've had a misunderstanding. The impressive part of the UI is the reactive animation responding to the user's input. I would agree that the input boxes themselves are standard Material Design.

@emaree of course you can't just make everyone purple, you need to make them all DIFFERENT colors. A whole rainbow of colors!
@InspectorCaracal Ah yes, cousin to the ol' Hollywood trope UNDER THE ALIEN/INHUMAN MAKEUP THEY'RE PoCs! WE'RE THE BEST AT DIVERSITY!