UX Lift links roundup – 3-9 August

Articles

The Hierarchy of Trust – Sites must meet users' basic trust needs before they demand that visitors enter information or engage with them. There are five levels of user commitment, each with separate design requirements before users will give a website what it wants from them.

Fast design will kill your product – Anything worth doing, is worth doing well. Everything that gets added to your product should be considered.

Allow users to upload images with their review – Users like seeing products ‘in real life’, adding trust and overcoming skepticism.

Creating low-fidelity or high-fidelity prototypes – factors to consider when deciding whether to create low-fidelity or high-fidelity design deliverables.

The things of everyday design – what affordances are and how they make things more or less usable.

Cool tools

Plasmic – Yet another visual UI-builder for React.

Story Creator – Simple web-based video editing and motion graphics.

Cool stuff

How Music is Remembered – Both a fun experiment and top-quality data visualisation.

Macintosh.js – Mac OS 8, running in an Electron app pretending to be a 1991 Macintosh Quadra.

The Endless Doomscroller – An endless stream of doom, without all the specifics.