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

Design spatial interfaces, balance user and business needs, quietly mourn the death of XD, read ebooks in the browser, explore Habitat 67 in 3D and write code in the font we all know and loathe.

Articles

What’s new with Figma – Lots of new stuff announced at this year’s Config conference, including conditional variables, built-in design token support and expanded developer tools. Also: Adobe seems to have quietly killed XD.

AI: first new UI paradigm in 60 years – AI shifts our interaction with computers from telling them what to do, to telling them what we want to achieve.

AI is a lot of work – Fascinating long read from The Verge on the human cost of AI.

Designing for visionOS – Apple’s guidelines for creating spatial interfaces.

Who should take responsibility for evil UX design and digital ethics? – When persuasion becomes manipulation, who protects the user?

Balancing users’ needs and business goals in UX design – On finding the middle-ground between customer and business goals.

A storefront for robots – Another great read from The Verge on how Google’s promotion of low-quality SEO chum has ruined the internet.

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Cool tools

Monzo tone of voice – Excellent writing guidelines from Monzo.

Minimal Reader – Simple, browser-based ebook reader made by yours truly.

Tunera Type Foundry – Open source font foundry with some fun typefaces.

Cool stuff

Wonky: An exploration of rhythm and grooves that break the rules –  A lovely audio story on J Dilla that becomes an exploration into rhythm itself. Perfect example of how interactivity can enhance an article.

Times New Bastard – It's Times New Roman but every seventh letter is jarringly sans serif.

Hillside – Recreating the original vision for Habitat 67 in Unreal Engine.

Facebook MusicGen – Another new music model, but unlike others you can actually play with it on HuggingFace. Also does music style transfer which has all kinds of dreadful mashup potential.

Comic Mono – Write code in the font we’ve all come to love and loathe.

Endless.horse – Hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo