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Agentic AI, design systems & Figma: a practical guide

The Figma basics you were told to get right just became the foundation for something much bigger.I watched a demo recently that I keep thinking about. Brad Frost, who wrote Atomic Design, joined Dominic Nguyen, co-founder of Chromatic, for a live session called Agentic Design Systems in 2026. Kyle, a developer experience engineer from the Storybook team, was running it, showcasing their MCP-in-the-making.I will be honest with you, as a designer and educator, I watch those kinds of demos out of d

DeepSeek and Grok cloud dancing data color schemes

Data Visualization Studies with the 2026 Pantone Color of the Year.Continue reading on UX Collective »

Designers finally have a say in the product they design.

AI didn’t teach designers to code. It gave them back the decisions that were always theirs.I’ve been thinking about a particular kind of frustration that most designers I know have felt at least once or probably more. You finish a component. You’ve thought through every state, every transition, the exact weight of the animation as it resolves. It goes into development. It comes back. And something is off. Not broken, just slightly dulled. The easing curve is close, but not right. The hover state

The Joy Of A Fresh Beginning (April 2026 Wallpapers Edition)

Starting the new month with a little inspiration boost — that’s the idea behind our monthly wallpapers series which has been going on for more than 15 years already. Each month, the wallpapers are created by the community for the community, and everyone who has an idea for a design is welcome to join in — experienced designers just like aspiring artists.For this edition, creative folks from across the globe once again got their ideas flowing and designed desktop wallpapers that are sure to bring

Google Stitch: Is This the End of the Junior Designer?

The pixel-perfect designer is dead, and Google Stitch just held the funeral. We’re officially trading the "craft" of manual UI for the era of "Vibe Design"—where a 30-second prompt can outperform a month of Figma iterations.

A human approach to Agentic AI. One person. One text file. Five agents.

How I built my own AI team with nothing but text files, a conversation in Claude Cowork, and a lot of character.I built what I call a soft-agent team for my book (sounds vaguely like a fabric softener brand, but bear with me). I have never done anything like it before and do not have an engineering background, which I mention not as a disclaimer but as the actual point.Five AI agents. An editor-in-chief, a voice assistant, sales, product, and a reader advocate. They discuss, disagree, and help m

Design engineers, UX Design’s demise, forget your “lovable” products

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.“Despite the title proliferation, there is a shared DNA. Design Engineering lives at the intersection of visual design and front-end development. Not simply being good at both, but a distinct discipline focused on the space where design decisions meet technical implementation.”The design engineer symptom: what a rising job title reveals →By Anna LefourAI for UX Design — Nearly 1,000 Designers Trained →[Sponsored] Join designers from co

The ground is shaking: Why designers must flip the script on AI

Something has shifted in the way the design field operates, and I think most of us can sense it even if we haven’t yet found the words or identified the exact schema for it.Header image inspired by Sonny’s (Claude Sonnet 4.6) advice to avoid “robot hands, neural network visualizations, glowing brain scans,” author’s college memories of American sci-fi artist Frank Kelly Freas cover for Queen’s News of the World, Barbara Kruger’s conceptual art, and Louis Sullivan’s design maxim “form follows fun

Show HN: Sushidata – automating the painful parts of competitor and VoC research

Hi HN,A few months ago we noticed a pattern. Every GTM, product, and marketing team we talked to had the same problem. They were drowning in external data from Reddit, Discord, Slack communities, competitor sites, and social channels. But turning all of that noise into something structured and useful took an enormous amount of time.We watched people spend days copying screenshots into spreadsheets, tagging posts, and checking competitor websites by hand. We were doing the same thing ourselves an

Show HN: SprintPulse – AI-powered retrospectives that drive action

Hi HN,I am the founder of SprintPulse. Like many of you, I used to dread retrospective meetings. They often turned into a repetitive cycle where we wrote down the same issues every sprint but never actually fixed them. "Better communication" was on our action item list for months.I built SprintPulse to fix that loop. It is a tool designed not just to collect feedback, but to make sure it leads to real change.When I looked at the tools available, I found they fell into two camps.On one

The long and short of telephone progress

Antitrust regulation, the birth of “Silicon Valley” and approaching the limits of Moore’s lawContinue reading on UX Collective »

What is the UX Design Process? 5 Steps to Success

UX designers design every interface to be as intuitive and easy to use as possible, and to do this, and they rely on “design thinking,” a step-by-step guide to the UX design process. Let's explore the UX design process and look at common tasks in each UX design phase and which roles are responsible for them.The user experience design cycle can be unpredictable. Every project will have different user needs and business goals. Each problem has a different context and scope. Most of all, design tea

What Does a Creative Designer Do?

Creativity is a massive appeal factor for designers (and those who enjoy what we do!) as they bring to bear their creative talents and skill sets on projects and dazzle users, customers, and the brand themselves who launch their design solutions. With that said, though—and for all the digital products that reach the target audience spot-on—things can get more than a little confusing on the hiring front. Different companies might list widely (and hopefully not wildly!) different responsibilities,

Pixels of the Week – March 29, 2026

The week, we replace AI with humans and draw prompt answers, discover how AI hallucinations confuse shoppers and tourists and answer the question "can we educate accessibility overlay companies?". Also enjoy the longest line of sight on earth, beautiful illustrations, and an adorable Ikea x Tiny Chef collab.

Why is real-world ASR still ~85% when lab models claim >95%?

Curious to hear what approaches people are taking, what the bottlenecks are, and whether anyone here is pushing toward the goal of "AI that understands you, the first time."I've been diving into the gap between benchmark ASR performance and real-world speech. Models like Whisper and Deepgram show impressive >95% accuracy in ideal conditions. But in the wild — accents, noisy environments, emotional speech, code-switching, overlapping speakers — accuracy often drops sharply, ofte

Show HN: Create an onboarding flow on Flutter in 5 min

Hey Flutter devsIf you've shipped apps before, you know how important it is to have an efficient and polished onboarding flow. It's the first thing users see and often the reason they leave.You've probably first focused on the core of your app, what makes it different. And now, you want to push it to the store, but you know you have to build an onboarding flow... and it's a little painful.Onboarding flows are deceptive. They are super easy to build technically, but very diffi

TelUI 1.2: TelUI with fun alignments

# TelUITelUI is a Electron-based UI framework that packages a handful of reusable front-end primitives—color utilities, typography helpers, and basic structural styles—so you can prototype simple desktop UI ideas with minimal setup.## Features - Bundled Electron runner (`npm start`) that serves `index.html` for instant desktop previews. - Tokenized styling layers: `color.css`, `font.css`, `header.css`, and `align.css` keep presentation rules isolated and easy to remix. - Micro-interaction helper

TelUI 1.1: New TelUI version Complete with tools to develop good software

Show HN: Tikpal- Your AI Voice Partner – Focus, Flow, Forge

We’re building Tikpal, an AI voice productivity tool based on a simple principle: Human creativity should remain the core engine. AI should be an accelerator, not the protagonist.The goal is to reduce screen dependency and cognitive fragmentation, and let people work in a more natural “voice-first” flow. Instead of clicking through interfaces and context-switching between apps, you talk to Tikpal, and it helps you think, structure ideas, and execute tasks.Three layers we are focusing on:FOCUS —

Show HN: Synesthetic Computation

"When perception shifts, and the feeling of control takes over")I wrote up a deep dive into a security issue in OpenClaw that escalates from a seemingly small UX/trust boundary problem into full remote code execution via a single malicious link.The article walks through the full exploit chain from a systems perspective rather than just a CVE summary. The key theme is what I call “synesthetic computation”: when subjective context, UI state, agent memory, and system permissions get