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

Articles

Guiding principles to design for delight – A good framework for designing for delight and what it actually means.

What are Figma widgets, and why are they useful? – Where you can find them, how you create them and what you can do with them.

Machine learning guide for product and user experience, simplified – A good explanation of the various machine learning approaches and what they’re useful for.

How product designers can study complex products – A guide to starting work on complex products.

How to present your work during a remote design critique – Best practices for presenting and receiving feedback during your next remote design critique.

Rethinking authentication UX – User authentication is still an unsolved problem and is generally terrible. Here are some pointers to make it less bad.

Cool tools

Onboarding Study – Screenshotted onboarding flows of over 220 SaaS products.

Ok! So… – Free infinite whiteboard with nifty sub-page features.

Cool stuff

Stable Diffusion – The best text-to-image AI model (sorry Dall-E 2) is now in free beta. Sign up to join the waiting list. Seriously, the results are phenomenal.

Notable People – Notable people as decided by Wikipedia mapped onto an interactive globe.

Visiting Canada’s $50 million 1980s ghost town – Fascinating look at a town that was abandoned in 1981, but is still perfectly preserved. Strong Backrooms vibes.