Interactivity - Crafting Better Web Experiences

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 —

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

# 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 1.2: TelUI with fun alignments

Reliability by design

Designing trustworthy AI for healthcare products.User holding a phone using an AI healthcare assistantAI is entering one of the most human domains: healthcare. It helps people track sleep, manage chronic conditions, monitor mental health, and navigate loneliness. It listens, advises, and sometimes comforts. Yet despite these advances, hesitation remains, not because the algorithms are weak, but because the experience does not always feel reliable.In this context, trust is not just an emotional r

The algorithmic atelier

Generative AI and the long history of artistic automationImage generated via Google Nano BananaThe discourse surrounding generative AI in the creative arts is frequently characterised by a sense of historical rupture, a seismic shift unlike any that has come before. Critics often frame the emergence of Large Language Models and diffusion-based image generators as an unprecedented existential threat to the ‘soul’ of human expression, a black swan event that may signal the end of human creative so

Design for the nose

Why do people pay for smells? Why is everything nowadays vanilla? How to indefinitely earn money on the same product?Continue reading on UX Collective »

7 Real Predictions for Web Design in 2026

Forget the buzzwords — 2026 isn’t about AI hype or flashy tools. It’s about designers reclaiming taste, calm, and authenticity in a web that’s lost its soul. The future of design is slower, smaller, and infinitely more human.

From HCD to HCD+: what I learned from Don Norman

Reflections on the 2025 DNDA Summit and Don Norman’s vision for the next era of design, community, and artificiality.Continue reading on UX Collective »

Junior designers have a perception problem-here’s how to fix it

The Future of Design is Tackling Uncertain or EvenAmbiguous ProblemsContinue reading on UX Collective »

How To Design For (And With) Deaf People

When we think about people who are deaf, we often assume stereotypes, such as “disabled” older adults with hearing aids. However, this perception is far from the truth and often leads to poor decisions and broken products.Let’s look at when and how deafness emerges, and how to design better experiences for people with hearing loss.Deafness Is A SpectrumDeafness spans a broad continuum, from minor to profound hearing loss. Around 90–95% of deaf people come from hearing families, and deafness ofte

Jobs to Be Done Without the Dogma | Wolfram Nagel (TeamViewer)

Listen now on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube.—Wolfram is a Senior UX Designer and Researcher and has been working at TeamViewer for eight years.He has been driving and advancing UX Research at the company for nearly two years, developing it further together with a young but highly talented and motivated team. He has been deeply involved with Jobs-to-Be-Done for over a decade and considers himself a pragmatic JTBD practitioner.Before joining TeamViewer, he spent almost ten years in the Enterpr

Velocity over speed: why the AI race has already failed

OpinionWe are confusing motion with progress. In physics, this mistake has a name: speed without direction. In civilisation, it has a cost.Speed vs Velocity (generated with ChatGPT 5.2)Here’s a truth from physics that should concern every executive racing toward AI dominance: speed tells you how fast you’re moving. Velocity tells you how fast you’re moving — and in which direction.A car travelling at 100 mph in circles has tremendous speed but zero velocity. It goes nowhere. It only burns fuel,

Sharp tools, hands-on leadership, 48 reflections on 2025, error UX

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.“I never decided to go all in on AI, it just kept showing up. (…)I wasn’t forced. I didn’t plan it. It was just inevitable. When you get a sharp knife, you don’t keep cutting with the blunt one. But somewhere along the way, I started noticing that this knife could slip.”A sharp tool can still ruin the cut →By José TorreStart 2026 with practical AI skills for UX Designers →[Sponsored] Learn how real UX and product designers are using AI

Micro-interactions still matter

Little micro interactions and accessibility concerns make a big difference to showing your attention to detail. Key Links ...

Facebook has made it impossible to delete Pages – dark patterns everywhere

I'm honestly shocked at how bad the current Facebook interface has become. I’m trying to delete a Page I own, and the platform basically makes it impossible. The options have moved or disappeared, the Page Settings menu leads to the wrong profile, Business Suite doesn’t show the Page, and the “Access and Control” section doesn’t list it at all.Facebook keeps bouncing me between: – personal profile settings – business portfolio settings – Meta Business Suite – classic Page UINone of them giv

I built a one-hotkey inline AI rewriting tool (and what went wrong)

I’ve been dogfooding a small writing helper I built called Rephrazo, and I thought it might be useful to share some implementation details and mistakes so far.The idea is simple: - highlight text where you’re writing - press a hotkey - get an AI paraphrase in a small popup - insert it back with one click The goal is to remove the “copy - open AI tool - paste - rewrite - paste back” loop for small edits.This post is about how I wired it up, what worked technically, and what didn’t.Constra

Show HN: Free Z-Image – A Fast, High-Quality AI Image Generator for Creators

I built Z-Image, a free, fast, and creator-focused AI image generator designed for artists, game developers, designers, and anyone who needs high-quality visuals without the usual friction or cost.Try it here (free): https://aiocmaker.com/z-imageWhy I built itMost AI image tools fall into two categories:Great quality but expensive, slow, or require subscriptions.Free tools but low quality, restrictive, or overloaded.As a builder working in the game/anime space, I needed a gen

Framework-agnostic Select and Toast components built with Web Components

Hi HN,I’ve been working across multiple frontend stacks over the past few years (React, Vue, Angular, etc.), and one recurring frustration kept coming up:Core UI components like selects and toast notifications get rewritten every time the framework changes.Even when the behavior and UX are essentially the same, the implementation is tightly coupled to the framework, which makes long-lived UI logic surprisingly fragile.So I decided to experiment with a different approach: building UI primitives a

AI will kill most startups — and that’s a good thing

AI will kill most startups — and that’s a good thingWhen anyone can build the product, only authority differentiates the outcome.Image source: Adobe StockPicture an ordinary person working in tech — a designer, developer, or product manager — who stumbles onto a genuinely good idea. Not a moonshot. Not a revolution. Just something that solves a real problem.In the past, bringing that idea to life required capital, a team, and time. Today, it requires a laptop and a collection of AI tools. With A

How to Become a UX Designer?

It might seem like it’d be a one-time journey if you’re going to step into the shoes of a UX designer and that once you’re “there,” you’re there as one—end of story. But it’s not like that; it’s very much a process, and an ongoing one at that. We hope this doesn’t blow your image of what it might look like to be in this exciting “job description”; if anything, we’re eager to share tons of great information with you now so you can make the most of what is an extremely rewarding career—and process