UX Lift roundup

Your latest UX and design links: When simple is too simple, how to feed back well, why you shouldn't design for mobile, and get nostalgic for a time that never happened.

False simplicity in UI design – Sometimes simple can be too simple.

Designers, own your feedback – Lessons in giving and receiving constructive feedback.

Don’t design for mobile – What happens now that mobiles are more powerful and capable than desktops?

Accordion icons: Which signifiers work best? – Testing the best action icons for accordions.

Designing adaptive components, beyond responsive breakpoints – How to design truly adaptive systems.

Nearly half of companies start most UX design work from scratch – Create reusable artefacts and processes to boost efficiency and innovation.

Cool tools

Magma Studio – Draw and paint collaboratively, in the browser.

Nova – New code editor from Panic, legendary Mac developer and the people behind Untitled Goose Game.

AltStore – Make your iDevice do things it’s not supposed to, without jailbreaking. Including running Windows.

Cool stuff