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UX Lift links roundup – the best UX and design links from the last few weeks
Make 'aha moments', collaborate on design systems, manage design teams, create better onboarding flows, explore early computer art, relax in an ambient garden and brainstorm with AI.
Articles
Manufacturing ‘aha moments’ for your users – How to create that critical moment when a user first understands your product and why they need it.
Design patterns are a better way to collaborate on your design system – Focus on designing patterns over individual elements to work in parallel and create reusable components.
Product-led growth and UX – UX is vital for product-led growth strategies, enabling customers to try out the product as quickly as possible.
Strategic UX research is the next big thing – How organisations connect their long-term direction and strategy to customers’ and users’ deepest needs.
Managing design teams – Thoughts on the best approaches to manage design teams, whether you’re a designer moving into management or a manager learning about design.
The AI takeover of Google Search starts now – Anyone who relies on search really needs to start thinking about what happens when Google decides to capture all that traffic for themselves.
Designing intuitive onboarding experiences for SaaS products – Tips and best practices for designing great onboarding flows.
Cool tools
Degreeless Design – Thoroughly comprehensive repository of online design resources.
NodePad – Quickly brainstorm ideas and question topics with a mindmap-style interface to ChatGPT.
Visual Frameworks – A collection of simple concept illustrations.
Jam.dev – Visual bug reporting tool for websites.
Cool stuff
Early computer art in the ‘50s and ‘60s – Fascinating look at the history of computer art.
Rooms.xyz – Make and share interactive voxel rooms. Cute, hope it doesn’t turn out to be some web3/metaverse thing.
It’s a-door-able – Quick, delightful mini-game.
Ambient garden – Generative audio landscape. Relaxing.
Pixpaint – Lovely animated drawing toy.
Bobby Fingers – Bobby Fingers makes dioramas of unusual scenes, such as Mel Gibson’s drunk driving arrest, then buries them as a sort of treasure hunt. But as with most things, the journey is what matters.
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