Interactivity - Crafting Better Web Experiences

The evolution of Youtube: How every platform evolves into an ad machine

A guide to the extinction of user joy in the digital age.An crap shaped ad, emerging from a cellphone.I was halfway through doing the dishes while listening to a podcast when an ad cut through and interrupted one of the most interesting bits. My phone was a few meters away in the living room and I rushed over like I had forgotten a burning turkey in the oven to make sure that I got to the phone before the second ad started playing. I tapped that lower-right hand skip button and the tension in my

2025 Meditation App Landscape: Comprehensive Review of Top Mindfulness Platforms

The meditation app market reached $5.8 billion in 2025, with users prioritizing privacy, scientific backing, and authentic practice over flashy features. After testing leading platforms, here's an honest assessment. Market Leaders Calm - Content Powerhouse Strengths: 15,000+ guided sessions, premium sleep content, celebrity collaborations Weaknesses: $14.99/month steep for basic needs, overwhelming interface, sleep-focused over traditional meditation 2025 Innovation: AI-

Guiding the future of ethical design

How to translate philosophical theory into practical design principles and responsibility.The following article introduces an evolving academic framework called Ethical Interface Design, which examines how moral philosophy can guide interface design in the era of emerging technologies. The working site, ethicalinterface.com, presents these ideas through a minimalist, text-focused layout that intentionally prioritizes thought over visuals — a meta-commentary on where design itself may be heading.

Why it’s okay to break a fundamental piece of design advice

Showing a high-fidelity version of the future isn’t as taboo anymoreContinue reading on UX Collective »

The future of work is sensemaking

AI can automate frameworks, but not their interpretation or meaning.AI can now generate design artefacts in seconds. It can fill in a Value Proposition Canvas, a journey map, or a jobs-to-be-done structure with impressive speed and coherence. For designers and other professionals, this raises an uncomfortable question: if machines can apply the tools of our disciplines, where does that leave human expertise?The answer lies not in what AI can produce, but in what humans can decide. The real trans

Learning by doing: an essential method in a design course

Project work is a crucial experience in our UI Design master’s educational process. Here is how we structured and refined it over time to…Continue reading on UX Collective »

When building software became easier with AI, deciding became harder

When you can build a working prototype in an afternoon, the question is no longer can you make it — it’s should you build it, and what should you build.Most founders and teams struggle with those questions, not because they lack conviction, but because they test that conviction too late. Resources get committed before customer needs are validated. Confirmation bias filters what gets heard. They often fall in love with solutions before fully understanding the problems they need to solve.AI-accele

Internalize the problem before jumping into the solution

And why history repeats itself over and over again.Sip, Dip and Flip is how the ideal process works.Have you ever been frustrated by an app or website that seems to be working against you? It’s as if the designers didn’t think about how real people would use it. That’s where product thinking comes in. It’s a way of designing that keeps the user at the forefront of the process, ensuring that their needs and challenges are fully understood before any solutions are created. In this post, I will sha

Let designers think

How “Thinking” + “Designing” need to be practiced outside AI.Continue reading on UX Collective »

Everything I know about behavioral design I learned at Orange Julius

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Effectively Monitoring Web Performance

This article is a sponsored by DebugBearThere’s no single way to measure website performance. That said, the Core Web Vitals metrics that Google uses as a ranking factor are a great starting point, as they cover different aspects of visitor experience:Largest Contentful Paint (LCP): Measures the initial page load time.Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS): Measures if content is stable after rendering.Interaction to Next Paint (INP): Measures how quickly the page responds to user input.There are also ma

What we lose when we lose the creative struggle

How removing friction from creative tools removes the meaning from creative workillustration by authorTwenty-five or so years ago, one day after school I went to visit my dad at his office. We didn’t have a computer at home at the time so whenever I was around his, I would beg him to let me use it to play with MS Paint.I was probably around 7 or 8, and my go-to artwork was a portrait of my him made with the spray tool — perfect to recreate his short, spiky hair and stubble — and I’d make his hea

The color reflex: Psychology that fires before you think

Design doesn’t start with pixels or shapes, but with how the brain perceives color and emotion.Some elements were created using AI. The final image was composed by Maxim Shevchenko-Tymchuk.As designers, we all understand how deeply psychology shapes our work. After all, everything we create is meant to be used by people and their perception and experience are what truly define our products. We listen to our users and aim to make their interaction with our products as effortless and intuitive as

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

Exciting New Tools for Designers, November 2025

While new design projects might not be on the top of your mind heading into the holiday season and end of the year, there are still new tools for designers and productivity to help you stay on track. Even if you aren’t in a space to try them now, this is the perfect opportunity to […]

Who, What, and How: Design Maps Show You the Way for Implementation

For something called a “team project,” it’s amazing how often everyone’s on a different page. Design maps connect the dots. They organize your research, stories of use, and design artifacts into clear, object-oriented interfaces that your team can actually build fast. No more “Wait, what did you mean here?” from developers. No more features disappearing between design and delivery. Just smoother handoffs, faster dev cycles, and teammates who want to build your vision.In this video, William Hudso

Use Cases: The Ideal Bridge Between Requirements and Design?

Imagine trying to describe everything your product needs to do, without getting lost in technical detail or endless feature lists. That’s the problem Ivar Jacobson set out to solve in the 1980s when he introduced use cases. Instead of worrying about how a system worked internally, he described it from the outside—as if it were a “black box”—focusing on what it does for the people and systems that interact with it. This enabled developers to capture requirements more clearly and consistently, pav

Designing for brain rot, Figma accessibility, Neo Robot, 10 easy UI fixes

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.“How much time do you think you spend on your phone everyday? The survey gives an average of 5 hours and 16 minutes each day. That’s almost enough time to watch all three of the original Jurassic Park movies. You can fly from New York to Los Angeles in about the same time.”Are we designing for brain rot? →By Daley Wilhelmpdf.to.design — From static PDF to editable Figma designs →[Sponsored] Convert any PDF into Figma designs, either as

We can’t predict the future, but we can design for it

How decentralisation is reshaping innovation, and what the possible futures of adaptability might look like.Continue reading on UX Collective »