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- UX Lift links roundup – the best UX and design links from the last few weeks
UX Lift links roundup – the best UX and design links from the last few weeks
How companies use dark patterns, on balancing business goals and supporting users, design great product listings, make better product decision and avoid the hellthread.
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.