The Death of the Front Door: Why the “Home Page” is a Legacy Pattern
The home page is no longer the front door of your brand—it’s a legacy pattern that users are actively bypassing in favor of AI-snippets and deep-linked "atomic" content.
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AR glasses are here, but what about accessibility?
Can multi-sensory experience take it one step further?Image created by AI tool ElevenLabsBig companies like XREAL and Meta have released their new AR glasses over the past few months. Unlike bulky VR headsets, they are much lighter and more comfortable, which means users can keep them on longer. I’ve tried some of them myself, and honestly, they’re still a bit heavy (mine keep sliding down my oily nose.) But given how fast the technology is developing, they’ll probably shrink soon and become muc
Sorry, designers, we don’t decide the future of design
From making things to deciding things — how AI is forcing a renegotiation of what being a designer actually means.Photo by Meritt Thomas on UnsplashThere is a persistent belief within the design profession that designers shape the trajectory of their own field. That we are collectively the authors of our own discipline.The truth is, designers do not determine where the field goes. They never have. And the current wave of AI adoption is making that belief difficult to ignore any longer. The only
Pixels of the Week – March 22, 2026
This edition focuses on accessibility in video games and motion sickness, durable design patterns for AI products and UX research insights on practical significance. Also: amazing apothecary-style products, fantasy art and dinosaur light painting.
Why Create a Design System
Design systems are often positioned as the solution to inconsistent interfaces, slow development, and fragmented user experiences.
Use Circular Design To Reverse Harm
Nature is circular. Nothing ever goes to waste. The banana peel we discard degrades into nutritious compost for plants. Even the remains of deceased animals and humans disintegrate into the soil. Human engineering and design, on the other hand, are linear processes. And that has put us on a one-way highway to a global wasteland. How can we move from linear economies to a more natural, circular one? Grand old man of UX design, Don Norman answers in this video.[[video:1433]]Circular DesignThe circ
Recycling is Not Enough. Let's Design for Reuse
“We live in the age of technology and luxury, but we also live in the age of waste,” Don Norman explains. In this video, the grandfather of User Experience Design, Don Norman unpacks the world of waste we have collectively generated. He examines aspects of our daily lives that we take for granted and sheds light on the consequences of modern life. You’ll learn that we can and should make a difference when we design products. It’s not good enough that we design for recycling. We have to design in
Tree Testing: A Complete Guide
Tree Testing reveals where users lose their way in your navigation. It’s a focused approach to evaluate a site's navigational structure. But it’s more useful in certain scenarios—so, you need to understand where you’ll benefit from tree testing the most. Learn about the pros and cons of testing tools so you can make informed decisions about their application.Did you know that unclear navigation is one of the things that can drive customers away? Forbes revealed that vague website labels lead to
Playing dumb: how AI is beating scammers at their own game
Fraudsters prey on human psychology. The most effective AI defences win by weaponising theirs.There is a phone ringing somewhere in a call centre. A scammer picks up, settles into their script, and begins working through the familiar choreography of a con. Urgency, authority, manufactured trust. They have done this hundreds of times. They know how it goes.Except this time, the person on the other end is an elderly woman named Daisy, chatty and warmly scatterbrained, and deeply interested in tell
Google says “Vibe Design” is here, but it didn’t pass my vibe check
Wall Street thinks “Stitch” is a job killer, but designers aren’t going anywhere.Continue reading on UX Collective »
Dropdowns Inside Scrollable Containers: Why They Break And How To Fix Them Properly
The scenario is almost always the same, which is a data table inside a scrollable container. Every row has an action menu, a small dropdown with some options, like Edit, Duplicate, and Delete. You build it, it seems to work perfectly in isolation, and then someone puts it inside that scrollable div and things fall apart. I’ve seen this exact bug in three different codebases: the container, the stack, and the framework, all different. The bug, though, is totally identical.The dropdown gets clippe
You can’t design what you won’t maintain
A marvel of design is about to collapse into the ocean, and we can’t do anything about it.Continue reading on UX Collective »
Designers, your next user won’t be human
And they don’t care about your pixel-perfect mockups.Continue reading on UX Collective »
Ask HN: Anyone doing production image editing with image models? How?
Hey HN — I’m building an app where users upload “real life” clothing photos (ex. a wrinkly shirt folded on the floor). The goal is to transform that single photo into a clean, ecommerce-style image of the garment.One key UX requirement: the output needs to be a PNG with transparency (alpha) so we can consistently crop/composite the garment into an on-rails UI (cards, outfit layouts, etc.). Think “subject cutout that drops cleanly into templates.”My current pipeline looks like: 1. User-uploa
Show HN: UseWhisper.dev – AI Code Reviewer (please test and roast it)
Hey HN!I built UseWhisper.dev — an AI code reviewer that analyzes your code diffs, PRs, or snippets and returns review feedback instantly. It runs in the browser with no signup required, and is meant to give developers quick second opinions on logic, style, security, and best practices.https://usewhisper.devWhat it does:Paste a diff, GitHub PR link, or code snippetGet line-by-line intelligent feedbackSuggestions on readability, errors, anti-patternsNo login, minimal UI, fast responsesW
Show HN: utils.live – Developer utilities that run entirely in your browser
I kept opening different websites for simple dev tasks — formatting JSON, encoding Base64, testing regex patterns. Each one had ads, signup walls, or sent my data to a server. I wanted a single place where everything runs client-side with nothing leaving my browser.Each tool is a stateless pure function defined with Zod schemas. The schemas validate input at runtime and also generate the UI automatically — editor language, form fields, and output format are all inferred from the schema shape. To
Show HN: Intentify – Point at your UI, describe a change, get a PR
Intentify is now generally available.It turns UI change requests directly from your app into structured tickets and pull requests.How it works: 1. Point and describe – Click on any element in your app and describe the change in plain language. 2. Review the proposal – Intentify generates a preview by updating the page. You review and approve 3. Create a PR – A pull request is opened for engineers to review and merge.Engineers stay in control. Nothing auto-ships.Intentify adapts to your code patt
Show HN: VantageKit – a lightweight data room with staging, analytics, & AI Q&A
Hi HN,I’m the solo developer behind VantageKit. I was a PM for a long time and recently decided to get back into coding. I’ve been building this part-time for just under two months (first commit was Dec 26). I was able to move this fast largely by leaning heavily on Claude Code to accelerate my workflow, and I wanted to share the result here to get your feedback.THE PROBLEM: - Sharing pitch decks, proposals, or due diligence docs is full of friction. You either send PDF attachments (and fly blin
Show HN: I built a Chrome extension to let my OpenClaw Bot remote in
Sharing a build-in-public update.I’ve been working with my assistant “Gideon” (running inside OpenClaw) to solve a very specific problem:I want the agent to control my real browser (logged-in sites, my normal cookies, my actual tabs) - not a sandboxed headless browser - while still keeping the control surface simple and auditable. This means my OpenClaw won't break the moment a site gets "clever".So... We built it! I say we but it was mostly Gideon and I was along for the ride as
Modal vs. Separate Page: UX Decision Tree
You probably have been there before. How do we choose between showing a modal to users, and when do we navigate them to a separate, new page? And does it matter at all?Actually, it does. The decision influences users’ flow, their context, their ability to look up details, and with it error frequency and task completion. Both options can be disruptive and frustrating — at the wrong time, and at the wrong place.So we’d better get it right. Well, let’s see how to do just that.Modals vs. Dialogs vs.