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

How to reduce bias when prioritising, learn to design with consistency, why accessibility must be considered from the start and code in your favourite font.

Articles

I come to bury Flash, not praise it – Fantastic Twitter thread about the demise of Flash and how ultimately it was its lack of accessibility that killed it.

“Every framework, library, plugin model, pattern, etc. in the world needs to be thinking, from their very _conception_, how they're going to be accessible, inclusive, equitable, adaptive, future-proof. Each mistake you make limits your future potential, possibly forever.”

The rise and fall of InVision – Charting InVision’s slide from an industry-leading prototyping tool to blog and podcast publisher.

Conducting project retros as customer journey maps – Routine post-sprint retros are a great indicator of project health, but end-of-project wash-ups are where the real gems for learning lie.

Feature prioritising: ways to reduce subjectivity and bias – The pitfalls of popular prioritisation techniques and approaches to reducing bias and disagreement.

The state of design teams: structure, alignment and impact – A survey of 557 UX and design professionals reveals themes in the structure, size, alignment, and impact of design teams.

Principle of consistency and standards in user interface design – Learn to design with consistency and standards in mind and understand the reasons why they’re important to incorporate them into your work.

Cool tools

Comic Mono – Write code in the font everyone loves to hate.

Octopus.do – Lightning-fast visual sitemap builder.

Parametric Colour Mixer – Smooth colour palette builder.

Cool stuff

Dall•E – Generating images from text descriptions with GPT3. Ever wanted to see what an illustration of a Pikachu in a wizard hat sipping a latte might look like as imagined by a massively powerful AI? Now you can.

Sticking with the AI theme, here’s a new Beatles album generated by OpenAI Jukebox. It’s like it’s leaking through from an alternate dimension on a busted AM radio.

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