Interactivity - Crafting Better Web Experiences

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

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

Notes from the people building your future

The companies disrupting your career are now volunteering to manage the fallout. OpenAI has published its vision for the post-AI economy. Not everyone is invited.Once the machines have taken the jobs, we are told, people will find meaning in other things. Community. Creativity. The pursuits that were always more important than work, if only we’d had the time. It’s a compelling vision. It also happens to be very convenient for the people selling the machines.This is the philosophical sleight of h

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

How To Improve UX In Legacy Systems

Imagine that you need to improve the UX of a legacy system. A system that has been silently working in the background for almost a decade. It’s slow, half-broken, unreliable, and severely outdated — a sort of “black box” that everyone relies upon, but nobody really knows what’s happening under the hood.Where would you even start? Legacy stories are often daunting, adventurous, and utterly confusing. They represent a mixture of fast-paced decisions, quick fixes, and accumulating UX debt.There is

taste.md

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The End of Static Design: Living in the Era of Liquid UI

Forget prompting—the future of design is a "disappearing act" where your interface melts and morphs based on your intent. In 2026, we’ve stopped chatting with sidebars and started working with **Liquid UI**, a world where software finally learns to dance at the speed of thought. Stop designing static screens and start building choreography.

How to run a quantitative usability test

👋 Hey, I’m Nikki. Each week I write about UX research strategy, communicating impact, and using AI to do your best work. For more: Claude Skills Bundle | AI Prompt Library | Team TrainingSubscribe nowP.S. Paid subscribers get access to full archive, all content, a private Slack community, Substack lives, and a hub of templates, scripts, and mini-courses“But it gives us numbers.”“No thanks.”That’s the first thing I said when faced with the suggestion of

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

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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

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: 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 —

Social media on trial

How design was used to target vulnerable childrenContinue reading on UX Collective »

The old design workshop is dead. Long live design workshops.

How new leaner design workshops are succeeding in 2026Continue reading on UX Collective »

Identifying Necessary Transparency Moments In Agentic AI (Part 1)

Designing for autonomous agents presents a unique frustration. We hand a complex task to an AI, it vanishes for 30 seconds (or 30 minutes), and then it returns with a result. We stare at the screen. Did it work? Did it hallucinate? Did it check the compliance database or skip that step?We typically respond to this anxiety with one of two extremes. We either keep the system a Black Box, hiding everything to maintain simplicity, or we panic and provide a Data Dump, streaming every log line and API

Careful, liable UX is a thing now

The recent ruling against Meta signals a shift that’s been brewing for a minute. Deceptive or dark patterns are no longer just…Continue reading on UX Collective »

Beyond the user: why design needs to widen its circle

Human-centred design changed everything. But optimising for the individual while ignoring the planet may be the field’s most expensive blind spot.There’s a thought experiment doing the rounds in design circles that goes something like this. Imagine you’re designing a car. A human-centred approach asks: how comfortable is the driver? Is the seat ergonomic? Is the dashboard intuitive? It’s all perfectly sensible. Now zoom out.How comfortable is the planet with this car riding on its surface?That’s