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

Bring back the to product design, demo earlier for more success, why nothing can be better, tell stories, create cool videos, copy code, test your morals and get nostalgic for 90s sounds.

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.