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

Articles

The negative impact of mobile-first web design on desktop – Mobile-first designs stretched out to desktop can be problematic. Here’s why.

The shape of the shadow of the thing – Now that ChatGPT has been around for nearly a year, we’re beginning to see what

What are wicked problems and how to solve them – As designers, we have the responsibility to generate the best solution possible even when the problem itself is indeterminate and the best solution does not yet exist.

UX vocabulary inflation – A somewhat ‘get off my lawn’ rant from Jakob Nielsen about the constant reinvention of UX terminology. Got a point though.

Introduction to web sustainability – Practical ways to build a greener and more sustainable web.

Cool tools

Full Adobe Photoshop on the web – Impressive they’ve got it running in the browser, but still needs an Adobe account. Check out Photopea for a free alternative.

Open source UX literature – Comprehensive, free UX textbooks from the Interaction Design Foundation.

Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute – A visual lexicon of consumer ephemera from the 1970s until now. Very useful resource to distinguish your Cyberbougie from your Pomo Faux Ruins.

Space Type Generator – Fun kinetic text generator.

Cool stuff

Floor 796 – Vast pixel-art animation, all created by one person. Impressive work.

HONK – Cyriak is back.

EXP TV – Weird music, odd archive clips and other strangeness, streaming 24/7. If I ever ran a cyberpunk-themed bar, this would be playing on all the vintage cathode-ray TVs.

Hotshot.co – AI text-to-gif generator. Create your own animated gifs, straight from the depths of the uncanny valley.