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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

Show HN: RotaFlow – A privacy-first shift calendar built with SwiftUI

I built RotaFlow to solve the UX disaster of current shift work apps. Most incumbents are web-wrappers laden with ads.The Stack:* Language: Swift 6 / SwiftUI. * Persistence: Core Data synced via CloudKit (NSPersistentCloudKitContainer). * Architecture: MVVM with a custom "LoopEngine" for O(1) shift calculation.The Interesting Part: I implemented a "Future Cliff" paywall. The app is fully functional for the next 30 days. Accessing dates beyond t+30d triggers a blurred UI

Show HN: Aperture Core – a human attention control plane for agent systems

I just released the first public version of Aperture Core, an SDK for deciding which agent events deserve human attention now, which should wait, and which should stay in the background.The core loop is simple: - publish an event - get back a frame if it should enter the human attention surface - render that frame in your UI/workflow - submit the human response back into the engineAs agents get more capable and one human starts supervising more of them, the bottleneck shifts toward human at

The rulebook for designing AI experiences

Three of the world’s largest tech companies have published guidelines for responsible Human-AI Interaction. Here’s what they got right, and where the gaps are.Ask ten people in the industry what responsible AI design means and you will get ten different answers. Ethics frameworks, trustworthy AI principles, responsible innovation checklists: the vocabulary keeps growing. But underneath all of that sits a more practical question. When someone is actually sitting in front of an AI-powered product,

The Nervous Voice in Your Head? It’s Costing You Promotions

You're in the review meeting and the team lead just asked a question about the project you've been refining for weeks. You know the answer. But when you open your mouth, nothing comes out. Meanwhile, your mind is saying: Wait, double-check, make sure, don't risk it. Then, someone else jumps in and answers for you. By the time you have your response, everyone’s moved on and you’re kicking yourself at another missed opportunity.You might have more experience than your colleagues, work longer hours

Design for Everyone: Understand Vision, Hearing, Cognition, and Motor Skills

In this video, Frank Spillers, Service Designer and Founder and CEO of Experience Dynamics, walks you through how color contrast, captions, cognitive differences, and motor limitations can change the way people use websites and apps, and explains why creating disability personas and testing across a range of needs helps you build more inclusive experiences.Note that the video refers to Asperger syndrome. While this used to be an officially recognized condition, it has now been folded into Autism

Triple Your Impact: Better Accessibility Means Better Usability and SEO

In this video, Frank Spillers, Service Designer and Founder and CEO of Experience Dynamics, explains how making content screen-reader friendly through clearer structure and meaningful text, like headings, alt text, captions, and transcripts, can reduce “junk” for users while also strengthening SEO signals.[[video:688]]Modern Screen Reader NavigationWhile the core principle of reducing unnecessary verbosity remains essential, it's important to note that modern screen readers offer sophisticated n

Designing with AI without losing your mind

With critical thinking skills on the line I built a real-time AI collaborator, Thia — with vision and voice capabilities to keep early ideas raw, the loop tight, and the thinking mine.Sketching on a whiteboard with an AI collaborator — image generated by AIYou don’t typically notice changes in your own behaviour until they become more pronounced. I recently found myself reaching all too quickly for LLMs to prompt on design problems I would have previously spent time digesting and sketching out s

Micro-interactions still matter

It's the little UI/UX touches that make your app feel alive. Let's look at 4 simple lines of CSS that can transform a boring interaction ...

Increase Website Engagement with Micro Interactions

This CXL Feed explores the use of micro-interactions on websites and landing pages, inspired by Apple's iPhone 16 launch page.

Good designers, bad websites: a proposal

I want to discuss accessibility because it is the most important thing for making websites. Other A List Apart articles give you innovation and insight. This article will give you homework. These are just my personal views, but they’re pretty good.I want to start off with a couple of statements, and you will agree:Designers are good people. I have never heard a designer say, “I don’t care if somebody can’t read this text”, “Not my fault if somebody can’t use this device”, or “Who cares if this i

Why Research also needs to research itself

We have been living in a paradox that is no longer new. Never have we had so much access to information and, at the same time, never have we been so exposed to misinformation. Biased reports, dashboards that impress them more by volume than by clarity, statistics without context or source. All this forces us to revisit a fundamental question: how can we trust the data we use to make decisions?Photo by Luke Chesser on UnsplashThis concern led me to revisit concepts of Metadesign, especially throu

How AI may reshape elderly care

A unique design challengePhoto by Georg Arthur Pflueger on UnsplashAI has changed so many parts of our lives, for better and for worse. Beyond the uses we see every day, it’s also quietly serving groups that don’t always get much attention.There are over 1 billion people aged 60 and older, and over 55 million people living with dementia worldwide. My own family and many people around me have had to take care of an elderly loved one. It’s never easy. It takes constant attention, patience, time, a

Building a b2b customer journey map

AI synthesis fails incredibly plausibly. Structured findings, clear themes, confident language and somewhere in there, an insight with no evidence behind it. I've been stress-testing this for a month and the gap between "looks right" and "is right" is where researcher credibility goes to die. I'm joining Tom Barragry from Survicate on May 6th to get into exactly this, where AI genuinely holds up in research workflows, where it'll quietly get you burned, and what human-in-the-loop actually looks

What improv taught me about why innovation falls out of sync

When adaptation becomes uncoordinated, journeys fall out of sync — like improv comedy gone horribly wrong.Continue reading on UX Collective »

Working in the open

Learnings from designing open source technologyLandscape artist Thomas Moran, created around 1876 — Boston Public LibraryI have been reflecting on the past three and a half years and realized there have been many ‘firsts’: my first time working in open source, building offline first experiences, and working on a fully remote async team.Of course, any time you try something new, it pushes you in uncomfortable ways and challenges ingrained habits. You are forced to experiment, remix techniques, an

9 Accessibility Myths and Pushbacks (And How to Answer Them)

Many designers care about accessibility. Developers do too. Tech people in general care. Caring about accessibility is easy. Convincing others is the hard part. You raise accessibility in a meeting. Then people push back. “We have no disabled users” “We’ll fix it later” “Branding won’t allow it”. It feels like you fight the same battles again and again. Friends, you’re not failing, you’re just having the wrong conversations. This article is a

The Limits of Today's AI Systems

Recently, I’ve increasingly come to believe that intelligence is no longer AI’s bottleneck. The systems we build around it are. Input Paradox (1) The first issue is the input paradox. When interacting with AI, if the prompt is highly detailed, the model tends to overfit to the user’s framing and assumptions. If it is too concise, the model lacks the context needed to generate something truly useful. This creates a paradox: to preserve the model’s independent reasoning, you should say less — but

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

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