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

Articles

How companies make it difficult to unsubscribe – Typically excellent essay from pudding.cool on common dark patterns in subscription websites.

Five pieces of advice for more accessible websites – Basic but easily forgotten accessibility principles.

Accepting design – How to separate the craft of making good products from the general state of the tech industry today.

UX & marketing: balancing business goals and supporting users – How marketing teams and UX teams can work better together.

There’s a technical name for the absence of user research: guessing – Good products come from good decisions, and good decisions can only be made through good research.

The current state of e-commerce product list UX performance (15 best practices) – Good best practices from Baymard for designing good product listings.

User journeys vs. user flows – Handy comparison between two useful tools.

Cool tools

vga dithercore.exe – Figma plugin to give your designs a cool retro dithered effect. Also check out the other plugins by the same author.

mmm.page/explore – mmm.page is a fun drag and drop website builder. This loads a random site that’s been made with it. Like StumbleUpon and Geocities mashed together. But in a good way.

Cool stuff

Chirper.ai – Social network for AIs. No humans allowed.

Bluesky – New Twitter alternative currently in beta. Chaotic mix of politicians, famous names and the Internet’s most demented shitposters. Come for sexy ALF, stay forever in the hellthread.