UX Lift links roundup – the best links from the last few weeks

How to create personalised designs, produce clearer UX maps, understand your design system maturity, chat with an AI, ignore (some) deadlines and launch meteors at major cities.

Personalisation pyramid: a framework for designing with user data – A model to understand and set up the core components of a UX-driven personalisation program.

UX mapping methods: visual-design guide – Creating a visual system to improve the legibility of UX maps.

Design system maturity levels – A way of gauging where your team’s design maturity is.

Not all deadlines are to be taken seriously – If the deadline is the project’s objective, then it’s a useless objective.

Allow users to choose the frequency of newsletter emails (80% don’t) – Allowing users to choose the frequency they receive emails can retain people who may otherwise unsubscribe.

The micromanager’s dilemma – Fascinating application of game theory to management styles, and how to be a better manager.

Freeform – Apple’s new infinite whiteboarding app for Mac and iDevices. Not a competitor to Miro or Figjam just yet, but handy to have.

ChatGPT – It’s worth experimenting with if you haven’t already, it’s hugely impressive. Homework is never going to be the same again.

Performance Cards by Spotify – Figma template of helpful user and context reminders to think about while designing.

Riffusion – Create any kind of music you like. Stable Diffusion music generator, trained on images of audio spectrograms.

Web Yule Log – Long-play animations of a yule log burning in an open fire.

Asteroid launcher – Discover just how quickly you’d vaporise if an a meteorite impacted near you.