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

Articles

UX design has a dirty secret – Too often, designers are asked to perform UX Theatre, which doesn’t actually centre the user at all.

How to create a perspective grid – A simple way to combine multiple perspectives and to create a shared understanding of a user’s goals and barriers.

Product & UX partnerships – Short video from Nielsen/Norman on how UX and product can work better together.

Agile as trauma – Loved the bit about ‘conceptual integrity’ and how it’s often lost with Agile. How can UX help create and communicate that bigger picture?

Keeping things organised – How Microsoft maintains their design systems in Figma.

Cool tools

Penzil – Sketch in 3D in the browser.

Mental Canvas – 3D sketching app for iOS and Surface.

Cleanup.pictures – Remove unwanted objects from pictures in the browser with AI.

Photopea – With the beta launch of Photoshop for Chrome, do yourself a favour and use this instead.

Cool stuff

Accessibility maze – Fun browser game to help demonstrate the importance of accessibility.

DOOM rendered entirely in checkboxes – Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

Ask Delphi – AI agony aunt for your moral quandaries. NOTE: Not entirely reliable.

First order motion for image animation – AI model that can animate a static image from a video. Try the Colab demo to create some spectacularly cursed results.