UX links roundup – the best UX articles, tools, resources and more from the last few weeks.

Articles

The demo-to-demo loop – The secret formula to making successful creative products.

More than just making rectangles – Bring the fun back into making things.

Holograms, light-leaks and how to build CSS-only shaders – Using CSS blend modes to make some cool animated image effects.

The case for null in design systems – Sometimes the absence of content is exactly what’s right.

The power of storytelling in building products – How it enables us to gain user buy-in, support, resources, demonstrate value, bring team alignment and more.

Designing a better pricing page – Designing pricing pages is hard than it looks. Here’s n in-depth guide.

Cool tools

Astrofox – Free, open source motion graphics app that can turn any image into an audio-reactive video.

Aspect.app – Visual React component builder. Includes a Chrome plugin that can export Figma designs and any component on any other site as React or HTML/CSS. Pretty cool.

Cool stuff

Absurd trolley problems – Increasingly silly moral dilemmas. Make the choices and see just how unethical you are.

Viz.wtf – Strange and unhappy data visualisations.

Ringtone Bangers – Get nostalgic with this archive of old ringtones and other phone sounds.