UX Lift links roundup

Articles

AI horseless carriages – Very good article on how most AI apps are designing for the old way of doing things. AI shouldn’t be a feature to be slapped on the top, instead it’s a fundamental change in how software works. We just haven’t got there yet.

Bring out your design dead – Design is deader than a resting parrot. Here’s the proof.

25 principles that make a UX designer more productive – Good list of tips and suggestions, not just for productivity.

5 best practices for communicating sustainability in e-commerce – ways online stores sites can build user trust, reduce abandonment, and support more informed shopping decisions.

Gild just one lily – On getting the fundamentals right before adding polish.

Being blind on the Internet – What it’s really like to navigate the Internet without sight.

Cool tools

Calligraphr – Turn your handwriting into a font.

Open Type Collective – A showcase of open source variable typefaces.

Fontshare – A collection of free fonts for personal and commercial use.

Open Foundry – Curated collection of open source fonts.

(I’ve been researching fonts this week.)

Cool stuff

PunPages – Find businesses with the punniest names. There was a second-hand appliance shop near me called Sellfridges, which I thought was a thing of beauty and needed more attention. Glad to see someone’s taken the idea and run with it.

Map of Wikipedia – Visualise over a million articles and their relationships to each other. Makes the wiki wormhole that much more dangerous.

Abandoned blogs – A collection of old blogs slowly bit-rotting to oblivion. Nostalgic.

CSS Clicker – Clicky website-building game made entirely in CSS, no Javascript.

Grublr – Explore random web-pages from the Internet’s golden age. Like StumbleUpon for Archive.org.

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