UX Lift links roundup – the best articles, tools and more from the last two weeks

Articles

Growing UX maturity: knowledge sharing and mentorship – Second part of Smashing Mag’s excellent series on UX maturity. Part 1 was featured in the last newsletter.

Women in design: the unsung heroes – Celebrating pioneering women designers, both past and present.

Anti-suck advice for design leaders – How not to suck as a design leader – writeup of a talk by Jane Austin at the Leading Design festival.

Stop making it perfect – It’s scary to show work, especially work we don’t think is perfect. But when we do, it gives our colleagues permission to be messy and build a better solution together.

Understand the social needs for accessibility in UX design – By removing discrimination against people with disabilities we can create products and services that will delight everyone. Here’s how.

Good, better, best: Untangling the complex world of accessible patterns – How do we know which design patterns are good, better, best when it comes to accessibility? Is it better to use an established pattern or create new ones?

Cool tools

Fontshare – 50+ professional fonts, free for personal and commercial use.

Alight Motion – Surprisingly powerful motion graphics app for iOS and Android.

Zoom Escaper – Sabotage your audio stream to escape boring video calls.

Open Broadcaster Studio – Hijack your video feed and add realtime effects, text, chromakey compositing and more.

Cool stuff

Fontemon – Complete playable Pokemon-style game in a font.

Cookie consent speedrun – Can you disable all the cookie popups in less than 30 seconds?

GPT-3 generated pickup lines – “I will briefly summarise the plot of Back to the Future II for you.”

This music video does not exist – Music and videos by OpenAI Jukebox and StyleGAN2. I for one welcome our robot vaporwave overlords.