Delightful UX

A "Surprise me!" option in Slack preferences. When you click it...well, you get a surprise. (Not totally related to anything else in the app, but pretty cute.)

How you set up your initial information and preferences in Slack — by chatting with a bot!

Murvey.com — the logo's eye's pupil follows your cursor around the screen.

Everyone has a name for them: the excellent Phil Hawksworth calls them “delighters”, my friend Tom Knowles and I call them “showbiz coding.” They are little bits of UI that do something unexpected and fun. I’m going to jump to my favourite kind: 3D effects. They give your UI some depth and, much as with the Spanish Inquisition, nobody expects those suckers. They also have the advantage of being GPU accelerated effects, provided all you do is scale, rotate and translate (or skew, if that’s your bag).

This critter on Glyphter.

Effects in Google Hangouts.

Tumblr's Valentine's Wish for you. :')

Rolf Molich: Useful Usability Humor (by dwightconners12)

"12" spelled out on the Seahawks' live flight tracker to the Superbowl

Directr for Business — click through to see its background animation.

"Clear’s discoverable copy inspires and serves as a small reward for a hard day’s work." (via)