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- UX Lift links roundup – the best UX articles and tools from the last few weeks
UX Lift links roundup – the best UX articles and tools from the last few weeks
Avoid overthinking, create better drop shadows, globalise your designs, publish images from Figma, mangle images and upscale them with AI.
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.