UX Lift

A collection of the best articles, resources, books and tools, covering every aspect of the UX and design process.


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June UX Training 2024 Agenda

Nielsen Norman Group

Nielsen Norman Group - 24 June 2024

Take up to 3 in-depth training courses, teaching user experience best practices for successful design. Courses focused on long-lasting skills …

July UX Virtual Training 2024 Agenda

Nielsen Norman Group

Nielsen Norman Group - 27 April 2024

Take up to 9 in-depth training courses, teaching user experience best practices for successful design. Live virtual training focused on …

Affinity Diagramming: Collaboratively Sort UX Findings & Design Ideas

Nielsen Norman Group

Nielsen Norman Group - 26 April 2024

Use affinity diagramming to cluster and organize research findings or to sort design ideas in ideation workshops.

How to Create Effective Journey Maps: Learnings from the IxDF Course

Interaction Design Foundation

Interaction Design Foundation - 26 April 2024

Leverage journey mapping to improve your product or service design. Learn how the journey mapping course can help you identify …

The Picture-Superiority Effect: Harness the Power of Visuals

Nielsen Norman Group

Nielsen Norman Group - 26 April 2024

People often remember visuals better than words. Designers can leverage the picture-superiority effect to make their products memorable and learnable.

The End Of The Free Tier — Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine - 26 April 2024

Free-tier pricing is a common marketing strategy. “Free” gets people in the door and allows them to settle in and …

Master Mobile Experiences: 5 Key Discoveries from the IxDF Course

Interaction Design Foundation

Interaction Design Foundation - 25 April 2024

Learn the basics of mobile user experience design in our beginner course. Understand the steps to design for mobile and …

Conducting Accessibility Research In An Inaccessible Ecosystem — Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine - 25 April 2024

Conducting UX research that includes participants with a variety of disabilities is vital to building inclusive technology, but most prototypes …

Design Systems Smashing Magazine Discussion, April 2024

Brad Frost

Brad Frost - 25 April 2024

I had a fantastic time chatting with a group of design system wizards, Nathan Curtis and Ben Callahan. Geoff Graham …

It’s the End of the Web as We Know It

Brad Frost

Brad Frost - 24 April 2024

Here's a pretty damning read about LLMs' impact on the web. Just how SEO produced an extremely lucrative-yet-icky industry, optimizing …

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Latest tools

Photopea

Photopea

Photopea.com is a free online tool for editing raster and vector graphics with support for PSD, AI, and Sketch files.

Interface design Visual design
Vectorpea

Vectorpea

Vectorpea.com is a free online tool for editing vector graphics with support for AI, PDF and SVG files.

Diagramming Illustration Visual design Wireframing
Kite Compositor

Kite Compositor

A powerful animation and prototyping application for Mac & iOS

Animation Prototyping
Proven By Users

Proven By Users

A user research platform that enables you to test all aspects of your UX and design.

User testing
Bellini Slushie

Bellini Slushie

Get all the survey help you need with the Bellini Slushie Question Bank. It's a forever free, open-source database of survey questions, translations, and guidance.

User research
Plasmic

Plasmic

The fast and fun visual builder for React.

Design-to-code
Story Creator

Story Creator

Simple online video editing for digital creators.

Animation
Kinopio

Kinopio

Kinopio is the visual thinking tool for new ideas and hard problems.

Diagramming
Sketch2React

Sketch2React

A 100% free front-end solution for Sketch app that lets you build real code prototypes and even very simple websites. No plugins, only using the built-in tools.

Design-to-code