UX Lift weekly roundup – 4-8 May

Articles

Six ‘COVID-19’ related e-commerce UX improvements to make – The Baymard Institute are a goldmine of in-depth UX research content, and this is a thought-provoking rundown of ways to reassure customers and address their concerns while shopping online.

Winning teams over through your design deliverables – Tactics to help stakeholders and team members understand and support your design ideas.

Benchmarking UX: tracking metrics – When and how to use UX benchmarking, a way to measure user experience against a meaningful standard.

Ideation methods: bad ideas – Coming up with good ideas can be hard. What if you tried to come up with bad ones instead?

Checklist Design – UI and UX practices for accessible, functional, production ready design.

Webinars

Conversion Rate Optimization and Applied UX Research – Learn how to increase website revenues using a pragmatic blend of research tools and methods. May 21, $99

Cool stuff

Puzzle publisher – Export Sketch artboards as clickable HTML prototypes.

AR cut & paste – What sorcery is this? Cut and paste objects in your surroundings to Photoshop.

OpenAI Jukebox – Neural net that generates music in various genres and styles. Listen to brand new Elvis, 2Pac and Rick Astley.

Audio deepfakes – AI generated speech that mimics real voices. Bill Clinton vs Sir Mix-A-Lot, Jay-Z vs Shakespeare, Obama vs Notorious B.I.G.