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

Articles

Designing for UX focus and flow – How can we design experiences that support user focus and uninterrupted flow-state?

The return of the UX generalist – AI advances make UX generalists valuable, reversing the trend toward specialisation.

4 ways to improve the post-checkout experience – Post checkout is often ignored as it’s not seen as important as conversion, but doing it wrong is a good way to lose customers.

How designers can help companies design for the circular economy – How we as designer can help companies be more sustainable and design for reuse.

If you don’t know where to start research, start with PACT – A quick framework for getting started with research.

How to build confidence in your UX work – How to build trust in your work, gain support and make an impact.

Cool tools

Futuristic UI Kit – Design like it’s 2225.

NAN Glyph Filters – Generative fonts and the scripts used to make them. Some cool glitchy fonts.

Symbl – Handy repo of graphical elements, eg. payment logos, flags, app icons etc.

Cool stuff

HTML Review 4 – Latest edition of the Internet’s best journal. Some lovely arty HTML work.

Infinite Mac OS X – Infinite Mac brings the earliest macOS builds to the browser. Incredible stuff.

Museum of All Things – Turns Wikipedia into an almost infinite virtual museum. Strong liminal feeling with this one.

How do animals sound across languages – Another great bit of dataviz from Pudding.cool

TV Garden – Watch TV channels from every country in the world for free.

ADHD – Bonkers new track from Igorrr. The music is great as ever, but the video is a perfect use of AI – wrong, disturbing and funny.

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