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

Articles

When critical thinking goes wrong – When critical thinking turns into overthinking, and how to avoid it.

Fostering positive environments for remote working – Tips and experiences on managing remote UX professionals and teams.

Designing beautiful shadows in CSS – The ultimate guide to designing smooth and natural-looking drop shadows.

Qualitative usability testing: study guide – A comprehensive collection of articles and videos to learn about planning, conducting, and analysing qualitative user testing.

Globalising your UX designs – Designing for users across the globe creates more inclusive experiences and products.

Cool tools

Useful Figma plugins and tools – Level-up your Figma workflow with these handy tools.

SVG Gobbler – Terrible name, handy browser extension to download SVG content from any web page.

Figmage – Interesting tool to publish embeddable images directly from Figma.

Doodle Ipsum – Instant placeholder illustrations. Lorem ipsum but for images.

Cool stuff

Contraint.systems – Fascinating collection of experimental tools to mangle text and images.

Matches – Simple but clever stop motion animation.

SwinIR – Very high quality image super resolution using machine learning. Links to a Google Colab notebook to try it out.