Digest for Saturday 29 August 2026

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• Adoption

  UK junior design hiring: check listings yourself, weekly

  Design job market signals shift often and vary by source — don't rely on one dashboard. Build a habit of checking live listings rather than trusting secondhand stats.

  designjobsboard.com · 5 Aug

• Established

  Heuristic evaluation is still the fastest UX sanity check

  Nielsen Norman Group's usability heuristics remain the baseline method for spotting UX problems fast and cheap. Old doesn't mean irrelevant — it means proven.

  nngroup.com · 10 Aug

• Established

  Design tokens are the un-sexy skill worth actually learning

  Token-based design systems are now the default expectation, not a nice-to-have. Design Systems News keeps covering token workflows because teams are still bedding them in.

  designsystems.news · 12 Aug

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