UX roundup – the best UX & design links from the last two weeks

Articles

Designing search for your product – Explaining the different stages in the Search funnel, how they work, the crucial decisions to make and how to design for it.

Three levels of pain points in customer experience – Pain points, more than random feature requests, should be a driver for design changes.

Sharing learnings about our image cropping algorithm – Fascinating article from Twitter on how gender and racial bias can be present in even fairly simple tools, with the result that not all users are treated equally.

6 ways to reduce cognitive demand when designing UX – How to reduce decision fatigue in your designs

What no-one explains about the design process – When no project is the same as another, how do we follow a consistent process?

Cool tools

Accessibility annotation kit – Figma library to help document accessibility considerations when handing over to developers. Here’s a good guide on how to use it.

mmm.page – Dead simple, fun, drag-and-drop website builder.

Generated Photos – AI-generated stock portraits. Basically This Person Does Not Exist as-a-service.

Cool stuff

Terms and Conditions Apply – A mini-game about pop ups, and the deviousness of websites and apps.

Dark Patterns Tip Line – New project from Consumer Reports to collect examples of sites that use dark patterns.

Stumbled – StumbleUpon’s spiritual successor, but better. Find an interesting site at the click of the button.