Articles
Personalisation pyramid: a framework for designing with user data – A model to understand and set up the core components of a UX-driven personalisation program.
UX mapping methods: visual-design guide – Creating a visual system to improve the legibility of UX maps.
Design system maturity levels – A way of gauging where your team’s design maturity is.
Not all deadlines are to be taken seriously – If the deadline is the project’s objective, then it’s a useless objective.
Allow users to choose the frequency of newsletter emails (80% don’t) – Allowing users to choose the frequency they receive emails can retain people who may otherwise unsubscribe.
The micromanager’s dilemma – Fascinating application of game theory to management styles, and how to be a better manager.
Cool tools
Freeform – Apple’s new infinite whiteboarding app for Mac and iDevices. Not a competitor to Miro or Figjam just yet, but handy to have.
ChatGPT – It’s worth experimenting with if you haven’t already, it’s hugely impressive. Homework is never going to be the same again.
Performance Cards by Spotify – Figma template of helpful user and context reminders to think about while designing.
Cool stuff
Riffusion – Create any kind of music you like. Stable Diffusion music generator, trained on images of audio spectrograms.
Web Yule Log – Long-play animations of a yule log burning in an open fire.
Asteroid launcher – Discover just how quickly you’d vaporise if an a meteorite impacted near you.