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

Discover the origins of creativity, conduct better user interviews, collaborate in realtime, transcribe audio for free and decide whether you're a centaur or a cyborg.

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The surprising origins of our obsession with creativity – The idea of ‘creativity’ originating as a reaction to the increasing mechanisation of white-collar work in the 1950s is fascinating.

User interviews 101 – A good introduction to interviews by N/N group.

The tyranny of the marginal user – Why consumer software products get worse, not better over time.

A designer’s guide to weekly, scrappy, rapid iteration and testing – A guide to building regular user testing sessions into your workflow.

Accordion editing and apple picking: early generative-AI user behaviours – How tools like AI chatbots are forming new behaviours.

Centaurs and cyborgs on the jagged frontier – A recent study found that people using AI for work finished 12.2% more tasks on average, completed tasks 25.1% more quickly, and produced 40% higher quality results than those without.

Cool tools

Obsidian – My new favourite notes and writing tool. Simple to get started, but enormously powerful thanks to a huge ecosystem of third-party extensions.

Multi.app – Figma-like collaboration for macOS.

v0.dev – Didn’t think it’d be long before generative AI came for UI. Type in a prompt to get designs and working code.

YouTube 2 Webpage – Script to create a webpage from a Youtube video with a transcript paired with screenshots.

MacWhisper – Free app to generate transcripts from audio or video recordings. Handy for transcribing meetings.

Cool stuff

I’m a fake brand in a fake world – Exploring made-up brands for movies and TV. Also see Fictional Brands Archive.

Stable Audio – Text-to-music generative AI. Surprisingly not bad.

Falling down the Internet hole – Web design as it should be.

Ramen Haus – Like Rotating Sandwiches, but, well you get the idea.

British Seaside Simulator – After visiting Sheerness by mistake once, I can confirm this is 100% accurate.