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How To Minimize The Environmental Impact Of Your Website

Climate change is the single biggest health threat to humanity, accelerated by human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels, which generate greenhouse gases that trap the sun’s heat.The average temperature of the earth’s surface is now 1.2°C warmer than it was in the late 1800’s, and projected to more than double by the end of the century.The consequences of climate change include intense droughts, water shortages, severe fires, melting polar ice, catastrophic storms, and declining biodi

Lessons from the Only Researcher in the Room | Alaine Burns Laycock (Dext)

Listen now on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube.—Alaine is an empathetic UX leader with a proven track record of driving user-centric strategies, adeptly managing teams, and delivering impactful research that drives business growth and strategic alignment.In her role as a Research Manager at Dext, she oversees research delivery, strategy, and operational functions. With 12 years of extensive experience in user research and design, she is deeply passionate about leading and inspiring individuals

Confessions of a Web Design Generalist (a.k.a. The Person Who Does Literally Everything)

Web design’s real MVPs aren’t specialists—they’re the generalists quietly doing everything. These multitasking heroes hold the internet together with duct tape and Google searches. This is your gloriously chaotic love letter to the people who do it all.

Liminal design seeks likeminded revenue model for committed relationship

We know how to design liminal products that deliver deeper and more interesting experiences, not just more and faster transactions. But current business models are stuck pumping around the same corporate water in the aquarium until the fish die — we now need to look for brand new revenue perspectives to keep up.The famous 1910 Kuleshov experiment shows how meaning is created in-between : From left to right, how does the man to the right feel? Both question and answer are liminal, and ChatGTP can

SerpApi: A Complete API For Fetching Search Engine Data

This article is a sponsored by SerpApiSerpApi leverages the power of search engine giants, like Google, DuckDuckGo, Baidu, and more, to put together the most pertinent and accurate search result data for your users from the comfort of your app or website. It’s customizable, adaptable, and offers an easy integration into any project.What do you want to put together?Search information on a brand or business for SEO purposes;Input data to train AI models, such as the Large Language Model, for a cus

Shared leadership drives innovation, not centralised rules

How cross-team collaboration sustains innovation where regulation falls shortContinue reading on UX Collective »

Why many employers want Designers to think like PMs, not Devs

How asking questions, which used to annoy teams, is now critical to UX’s futureContinue reading on UX Collective »

Functional Personas With AI: A Lean, Practical Workflow

Traditional personas suck for UX work. They obsess over marketing metrics like age, income, and job titles while missing what actually matters in design: what people are trying to accomplish. Functional personas, on the other hand, focus on what people are trying to do, not who they are on paper. With a simple AI‑assisted workflow, you can build and maintain personas that actually guide design, content, and conversion decisions.Keep users front of mind with task‑driven personas,Skip fragile demo

Business insights that prove the value of design

There’s now undeniable evidence from McKinsey, Harvard, Adobe, Forbes, and the NEA that will enlighten the world about design’s transformative power in business as a value driver.source: DSRUPTR.comDesign is powerful.Design is powerful as a catalyst for change. Design is powerful for developing innovative solutions. Design is powerful for driving exponential growth for businesses.Design is powerful in solving some of the world’s most difficult problems.If design is so revolutionary, why do so fe

Linguistic dead-ends: the new deceptive pattern plaguing Japan

Something got seriously lost in translationContinue reading on UX Collective »

Exciting New Tools for Designers, September 2025

Web design tools that use artificial intelligence are still dominating new and beta launches, while hopefully making your workflows a little bit smoother. One of the most talked about launches this month is Google (Gemini’s) Nano Banana image generator tool, which has even been the subject of the viral AI saree prompt. Have you tried […]

Creating Elastic And Bounce Effects With Expressive Animator

This article is a sponsored by ExpressiveIn the world of modern web design, SVG images are used everywhere, from illustrations to icons to background effects, and are universally prized for their crispness and lightweight size. While static SVG images play an important role in web design, most of the time their true potential is unlocked only when they are combined with motion.Few things add more life and personality to a website than a well-executed SVG animation. But not all animations have th

Vibe coding, corrupt personalization, responsible AI workflows

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.“Vibe Coding began with a modest description: Karpathy framed it as a way to use AI as a coding assistant through natural language. But as the term spread, it was quickly inflated — spawning offshoots like “context engineering” and promises of faster prototyping, instant creation, and lowered barriers, even the idea that anyone could code without really coding. A lighter vision than the Metaverse, but one that also stretches language f

How Apple fooled users with fake infinite scroll

Why your iPhone’s date picker was never infinite.Continue reading on UX Collective »

When UX dad meets board games for kids

Great kids’ board games are tangible UX journeys. Using Nielsen’s principles, they teach control, learning & social joy through play.As a father of a 5-year-old boy, I deeply understand the importance of productive/creative pleasure for children. It’s not the passive stimulation from cartoons, but the vibration he feels when his little hand pushes the wooden snail shell across the table in the board game Rouleboule l’Escargot; it’s the confident smile on his face when he answers a question c

Figma Make: the biggest shift in UX/UI since Sketch

AI for product design is not only here to stay, it’s redefining how digital products are designed and developed. After more than 4,000 iterations in Figma Make since its launch in May 2025, I’ve come to realize how important this tool will be in the near future for the industry, and how key it will become for both current and future product designers.Back in 2010, when Sketch was launched, designers relied on Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, two tools never meant for product design, but with jus

Pixels of the Week – September 14, 2025

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: invisible stigma in user research, common accessibility mistakes, “your” vs “my” in interfaces, standing out in our industry, super IC career path, AI criticism, travelling third spaces, design trends through sport posters, UI inspiration, OKLCH color tool, ethical reasons to leave Substack, nine delighters framework.

Taste vs. empathy

In the pursuit of the superpower that makes designers irreplaceablePhoto by Mateusz Wacławek on UnsplashIt seems that we designers keep on searching for our superpower (or lifeline if you are less optimistic) in the “age of AI”. Depending on who you are asking, it’s either taste or empathy. I decided to stop sitting on the sidelines and to jump in and join the fight. I had to find the answer for myself and decided to bring you on the journey. Hang on tight, it will be a bumpy ride.Where do we st

Stop Using Boring Buttons: Here are 10 Micro-Interactions That Instantly Upgrade Your UI

🧠 The Power of Micro-Interactions

Micro-Interactions: The Joyful Touches That Enhance Your Software Experience!

Never forget that software is about humans