UX Trends for iOS in 2025: Micro-Interactions, Neumorphism & More
how Apple Intelligence, fluid animations, and haptic feedback are reshaping iOS design. A developer’s guide to staying ahead.
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Bring Your SwiftUI Apps to Life: 7 Playful Micro-Interactions Every iOS Developer should know
As We all know, SwiftUI makes building iOS apps easier than ever, but what really separates forgettable apps from memorable ones? The tiny…
Hot iOS 2025 UX Trends — Micro-interactions, Fluid Animations, and Design Principles Developers…
The cutting-edge UX patterns transforming iOS apps in 2025 — from physics-based animations to haptic storytelling that keeps users engaged.
Micro-Interactions vs Animations: Which Converts Better in SaaS
Every new SaaS product demo feels like a mini-movie, as you have undoubtedly noticed. Cards spin into view, dashboards glide, and buttons…
Micro-Interactions in UX Design: Small Details That Delight Users
Discover how tiny design details—like a satisfying click, a smooth animation, or a subtle vibration—can transform ordinary user experiences…
The invisible gap: Designing for users who reconstruct, not just read
Understanding the hidden cognitive work behind every interaction with your contentThis article focuses on individuals who use products in English, despite their native language being different — those who reconstruct the context when perceiving information in English.About 1.19 billion people use English as an additional language, compared with 390 million native speakers — leaving 810 million non-native English users worldwide.Since English content accounts for roughly 55% of all websites, whil
What the Marble Machine can teach us about design, automation, and creativity
Even in an automated world, creativity needs imperfection.Continue reading on UX Collective »
Smashing Animations Part 6: Magnificent SVGs With `<use>` And CSS Custom Properties
I explained recently how I use <symbol>, <use>, and CSS Media Queries to develop what I call adaptive SVGs. Symbols let us define an element once and then use it again and again, making SVG animations easier to maintain, more efficient, and lightweight.Since I wrote that explanation, I’ve designed and implemented new Magnificent 7 animated graphics across my website. They play on the web design pioneer theme, featuring seven magnificent Old West characters.<symbol> and <use&
How AI Video Is Taking Over the Internet
AI video isn’t the future—it’s already eating the internet alive. From fake influencers and auto-generated TikToks to corporate “spokespeople” who don’t exist, the flood of synthetic content is rewriting what’s real online. The question is: when everything can be faked, will *real* video become the rarest thing left?
Material 3 Expressive: Building on the failures of flat design
The newest changes to Google’s influential design system are reviving some very old lessons.A whimsical cloud of Expressive buttons. (Google Design, 2025)“Life is too short to click on things you don’t understand.” — Jakob NielsenOn May 13, 2025 Google unveiled “Material 3 Expressive” (M3E), a refresh to its Material Design (MD) design system built on top of the last big update, Material 3 (M3).Chock full of big buttons, stylised text, and passionate colour, M3E is, at first glance, an update pr
We wanted Superman-level AI. Instead, we got Bizarro.
The illusion of intelligence is the new frontier of deception.Image source: dcau.fandom.com/wiki/BizarroI was a huge Superman fan as a kid. In fact, my first tattoo was of the Superman symbol — I know, cheesy. But there was something about that idea of strength guided by purpose that stuck with me. However, one character that truly captured my imagination — the one who explained the gap between ideal and reality — was Superman’s failed copy — Bizarro.Bizarro is a botched experiment by the genius
Is Figma in its accessibility era?
Figma’s inclusive design updatesDesigners are expected (sometimes legally required) to create accessible products. But many tools we rely on are inaccessible themselves.Imagine trying to use Adobe Illustrator using only your keyboard… yes, you could navigate the toolbar and open menus, but you really couldn’t use any of the core features (vector drawing or creating shapes).Most of these design tools weren’t built for users with disabilities. And products like Adobe would require massive retrofit
The User Research Round-Up: CW45
The UXR Tools Bundle is designed to take the chaos out of research. Paid subscribers to The User Research Strategist get free premium access to four top platforms that make research actually run smoothly:User Interviews → 5 participant credits, no ghosting, no chasingAskable → 1 month of Industry Stream, recruitment on autopilotLyssna → 6 months of quick-turn usability testingCondens → 6 months of a real repository (not 47 Google Docs)That’s roughly $1,200 worth of
Show HN: Roundtable MCP Server to Use Claude, Cursor, Codex, Gemini from One UI
Hey HN, Last week, I spent 40 minutes debugging a production issue that should have taken 5. Not because the bug was complex, but because I kept switching between Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Gemini - copying context, losing thread, starting over. The workflow was painful: 1. Claude Code couldn't reproduce a React rendering bug 2. Copy-pasted 200 lines to Cursor - different answer, still wrong 3. Tried Codex - needed to re-explain the database schema 4. Finally Gemini spot
A Practical Guide To UX Strategy
For years, “UX strategy” felt like a confusing, ambiguous, and overloaded term to me. To me, it was some sort of a roadmap or a “grand vision”, with a few business decisions attached to it. And looking back now, I realize that I was wrong all along.UX Strategy isn’t a goal; it’s a journey towards that goal. A journey connecting where UX is today with a desired future state of UX. And as such, it guides our actions and decisions, things we do and don’t do. And its goal is very simple: to maximize
Brutalism in the AI Era: Why Ugly Might Be the Only Honest Aesthetic Left
AI is turning the web into one big pastel gradient with rounded corners. Brutalism is the middle finger we need — raw, jarring, and impossible to fake. In a sea of safe, AI-generated beauty, ugly might be the only honest aesthetic left.
Shifting within: creating change inside a corrupt system without losing ourselves
This post explores living in the contradiction: working to change harmful systems while knowing that those same systems help pay our bills.I dream of a future where everyone has what they need and where design supports human and planetary flourishing. This vision fills me with hope while also making me acutely aware of the reality many designers face today. Our work is done within the dominant capitalist framework that prioritizes financial growth above all else, often at the expense of true flo
RITE testing: how to test AI-driven products in a meaningful way
One of the best ways to go back to scrappy user testing in the AI eraContinue reading on UX Collective »
How To Leverage Component Variants In Penpot
This article is a sponsored by PenpotSince Brad Frost popularized the use of design systems in digital design way back in 2013, they’ve become an invaluable resource for organizations — and even individuals — that want to craft reusable design patterns that look and feel consistent.But Brad didn’t just popularize design systems; he also gave us a framework for structuring them, and while we don’t have to follow that framework exactly (most people adapt it to their needs), a particularly importan
“Great Insights!” Isn’t a Metric
Hi, I’m Nikki. I run Drop In Research, where I help teams stop launching “meh” and start shipping what customers fight for. I write about the conversations that change a roadmap, the questions that shake loose real insight, and the moves that get leadership leaning in. Bring me to your team.Paid subscribers get the power tools: the UXR Tools Bundle with a full year of four top platforms free, plus all my Substack content, and a bangin’ Slack community where you can ask qu