UX Lift roundup — the best UX & design links from the last two weeks

How to use emotion to deliver better experiences, why we should be helping people not exploiting them, lead good design reviews, generate shadows and listen to forests.

Articles

Putting some emotion into your design: Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions — Using the theory of emotion to elicit reactions in your users.

Guide to design review meetings — A framework for leading better design reviews.

Mapping user stories in agile — User stories help agile teams define what to build and provide visibility on how it all holds together.

Why I’m losing faith in UX — How UX has moved from user experience to user exploitation.

We value your privacy (at about $0.50): dark patterns in UI copy — Direct follow-on to the previous article, showing how companies like Amazon, Medium, Facebook and Twitter use manipulative and self-serving language in their UX.

Lawmakers take aim at insidious digital ‘dark patterns’ — Interesting to see legislators go beyond privacy to take aim at user manipulation. Don’t know how it’ll pan out — the success of the GDPR and cookie laws have been mixed, but it’s a sign of things to come.

Cool tools

Pika — Free accessibility-focused colour picker for Mac.

Shadows — Ultimate CSS shadow generator, now with Figma plugin.

Cool stuff

WHY GGOD — Using GPT- 3 to write love heart messages.

Snowflake generator — Surprisingly relaxing.

Tree.fm — Listen to a random forest from around the world.

Archives.design — Fantastic collection of graphic design materials from the Internet Archive. Wish I’d thought of this.

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