Framer is the future, Webflow is the bridge, and WordPress just refuses to die. In 2026, the web isn’t about picking sides — it’s about knowing which universe you belong to. Framer wins for beauty, Webflow for balance, and WordPress for raw power. The real winners are the designers who master all three and build smarter, not louder.
And how to do hard things in general — based on dopamine addiction studies and the pleasure-pain principle.Continue reading on UX Collective »
Listen now on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube.—Berkay is a UX researcher with over eight years of experience, mostly in e-commerce and banking, working across both B2B and B2C. He has a bachelor's and a master's degree in product design and design research. His focus is on turning research into actionable insights, improving research processes and helping teams make user-centered decisions. Basically, reducing uncertainty. He also co-founded UXR Playground, Turkey’s leading UX platform,
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
Hey HN, I’m the solo builder behind LogiCart.I recently refactored my frontend to use a Generative UI pattern (inspired by Google's new A2UI framework) because I realized a static chat interface fails for complex shopping intents.The Problem: A user buying a single item needs a completely different UX than a user planning a complex project. A standard "list of cards" doesn't work for both.The Solution: I built an Intent-to-UI engine where the LLM decides the interface structu
in the first week of 2026 i ended up using cursor and google antigravity back to back, not by plan but because i burned through two cursor ultra subscriptions faster than expected and decided to try antigravity on the free tier.my normal usage is ~$60–100/month. within a few days it jumped to $500+, with the dashboard projecting ~$1.6k/month. max mode was off, and the ui consistently showed a 200k context window.what i eventually pieced together is that cursor maintains a large hidden
Hey HN,I feel like there is a gap in personal finance apps: local-first options typically have less polished UIs, while those with great design like Monarch Money are not local-first. This app fills the gap by providing a modern UI like Monarch/Monzo along with a database that you can hack around with outside of the app. File > app!- Local-first: transactions are stored in an encrypted SQLite database on your Mac, so you can read/write to it with Claude Code or your favourite DB cli
Hello HN!We, a team of 2, built Subatix after one of us spent almost 6 years in big consulting and at certain point came to a thought like «90% of what consulting is usually data-analysis related, why not make smth so any business get same level of insights without externals and 6-figure+ checks and fast?!». Based the experience during every project everyone wants - fast answers from their data, but real ops/business data is messy, sensitive, and hard to outsource to generic AI tools due to
In the first part of this series, we established the fundamental shift from generative to agentic artificial intelligence. We explored why this leap from suggesting to acting demands a new psychological and methodological toolkit for UX researchers, product managers, and leaders. We defined a taxonomy of agentic behaviors, from suggesting to acting autonomously, outlined the essential research methods, defined the risks of agentic sludge, and established the accountability metrics required to na
The 80% job: how design leads are using AI — and it’s not about mockupsDesign leads spend 80% of their time communicating, aligning, and justifying. That’s exactly where AI helps most.Image generated with MidjourneyPart 1: The Reality of Design LeadershipHere’s what my job description says I do: set design vision, mentor designers, elevate craft quality, drive innovation.Here’s what I actually do: run 1:1s, mediate conflicts, write justifications for decisions, align with stakeholders, update Ji
AI was meant to explain and augment human intelligence. Why aren’t we getting any closer?Collage created by the author. Source for original images: https://www.tvfilmprops.co.uk/, https://www.brainline.org/tbi-basics/interactive-brainNearly every modern conversation about AI begins by acknowledging how transformative it is for everyday life — how it’s changing routines, replacing jobs, restructuring our social networks. As with any kind of rapid and uncontrollable change, opinions about it are p
Exploration of the essence of what we do and how we do itPhoto by Jon Tyson on UnsplashIt might be a sign of changing of the times and of our industry, it might be a marketing push from the companies betting big on AI. I don’t know. But there seems to be a sort of a urgency for something new. For speed. For freedom. For paving a new path. For simplicity. For flexibility. A push for something else rather than Design Thinking as the standard design process.I am talking about the new wave of intuit
How trying to hide the mess of design projects caps your careerContinue reading on UX Collective »
Redefining the relationship between AI utility and digital advertising.(AI disclaimer: billboard asset produced with AI assistance; the billboard copy, and rest of the banner are my own design) Banner for “Useful Ads,” showing a nighttime billboard warning a specific driver about a broken headlight and pointing them to nearby repair shops.AI usage disclaimer: AI tools were used for editing visual assets, writing feedback, assistance in locating relevant sources, & Chicago-style citation form
There’s a particular kind of panic that hits when you’re facing a creative problem, and the well just feels… empty. Every idea seems stale…Continue reading on UX Collective »
The path to designing for AI is in questioning the fundamentals of what design stands forImage Credit: AI Generated ImageI admire artists and industrial designers who challenge assumptions. Ross Lovegrove is one of them. If you’ve never heard of him, he is one of the most visionary creators in the world, and designs all sorts of devices, including door handles, computers, fragrance bottles, and concept cars.In an article in the popular design magazine Wallpaper, he claims that the potential of w
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
There are so many new – and good – tools for designers out there right now. From tiny bits of artificial intelligence to icons that delight, there’s something to help almost every creative professional work more efficiently, while creating products that look amazing. This list includes a few OS-specific goodies too, with a couple of […]
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.“You likely know, or at the very least know of, a designer who just gets it. I’m talking about the designer who solves complex problems with elegant, user-centered, buildable solutions without breaking a sweat. Or maybe that designer who turns everything they touch into something genuinely beautiful. Or even the one who gets up on a stage and says what we’re all thinking more clearly and eloquently than we can. Maybe all three. Love or
The most powerful communication happens before language. And there are psychoneurological reasons.Continue reading on UX Collective »