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UX Lift roundup – the best UX and design links from the last few weeks

Find creative ways to get insights, become a head of design, understand the current state of app UX, match fonts, generate your own brain rot videos and play Pacman with your face.

ByMatt Kevan

Articles

UX is a joke and it’s inexcusable – When bad UX becomes a punchline we should probably get worried.

When traditional user research isn’t an option: non-traditional ways to collect insights – Just because direct access to users can be challenging doesn’t mean there aren’t other ways to get insights.

Head of design is dead, long live the head of design! – How the head of design role is changing and what it means for teams and organisations.

Product design process – In-depth look at the product design process.

Mobile app UX trends: the current state of mobile app UX – Typically thorough piece from Baymard on the (generally poor) state of e-commerce apps.

Cool tools

Minimal market – A collection of apps designed to reduce distraction and increase productivity.

UI Fonts – Font pairing and matching tool.

Cool stuff

Dynamicland – Huge rabbit hole for me, this. What if computing didn’t just happen on a screen, but anywhere, like electricity? Take 7 mins and watch the intro video – genuinely inspiring from a UX perspective.

1 dataset, 100 visualisations – Really cool idea showing how a simple dataset can be shown in so many different ways.

Oasis – Playable, realtime, entirely AI generated Minecraft model. Impressive, but like wandering around in a dream as anything out of frame is instantly forgotten.

PacCam – Play PacMan with your face

Infinite Mac + Macintosh Garden – Run almost every bit of software released for the classic Mac in your browser. Amazing resource.

PDF-to-brainrot – Turn any PDF into an instant TikTok brainrot-style video through the power of AI.

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