Trust isn’t a feature — it’s the interface
The hardest thing to automate is confidence.Continue reading on UX Collective »
The hardest thing to automate is confidence.Continue reading on UX Collective »
It’s not taste that will set designers apart from AI. It’s judgment.Composite AI-created image by authorThere’s that word again. Taste.Listen to a few podcasts with designer A talking to designer B in echo chamber C, and you’ll likely hear it a few more times.We’re talking about taste like it’s the thing that will keep the cyber robots from stealing away our jobs.It’s not that I disagree. But I think once again we’ve rushed out of our way to promote exactly the wrong word to convey what we reall
When your company shrinks back to startup size, how can you adapt?Continue reading on UX Collective »
How I demoted my tree diagrams.Image AI Generated (Midjourney)It’s 9:03 a.m. I join a Zoom meeting titled “Team Structure Alignment — Attendance Required,” the type of meeting title commonly reserved for nightmares. As soon as I join HR appears in one tile, smiling like this is definitely covered in their onboarding. It isn’t. We’re here today to demote a sentient diagram.Long story short: afew years ago a lightning bolt totally hit a Texas data center while someone had Lucidchart open, and a In
AI isn’t making life easier—it’s burying us in tools we can’t keep up with. Every new app promises magic, but all we feel is burnout. This isn’t progress—it’s overload disguised as innovation.
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.“As designers, we constantly make decisions. Whether we design objects, devices, websites, apps, or policies, we choose one option over another, setting parameters for subsequent actions to unfold.The law of unintended consequences observes that every decision made can have both positive and negative outcomes that were not foreseen by the person making the decision.”The UX butterfly effect →By Martin Tomitsch and Steve 'Doc' Ba
How design will evolve from solving functional problems to creating depth, connection, and significance in the age of AI.Image source: dreamstime.comI recently stumbled across a LinkedIn post by Rafael T. making a bold prediction—by 2030, 90% of interfaces will be invisible. According to him, voice, chat, and autonomous agents will replace screens and buttons as the primary ways we interact with technology.Designers, he argued, will no longer focus on crafting pixels but on choreographing conver
Last year, a study found that cars are steadily getting less colourful. In the US, around 80% of cars are now black, white, gray, or silver, up from 60% in 2004. This trend has been attributed to cost savings and consumer preferences. Whatever the reasons, the result is hard to deny: a big part of daily life isn’t as colourful as it used to be.The colourfulness of mass consumer products is hardly the bellwether for how vibrant life is as a whole, but the study captures a trend a lot of us recogn
Why clear, strategic writing is more critical than ever.If you’ve used an AI product recently, you probably know that the technology is incredible. The UX? Not so much.Maybe you’ve gotten comfortable writing prompts or using simple one-click tools. But as AI interfaces start to take different forms, many of them are still kinda hard to figure out. Navigating them can be overwhelming. It doesn’t feel like you’re using these products so much as deciphering them. The engineering is powerful, but th
A systematic analysis of the first truly AI-native browser and what it teaches us about designing for intention rather than navigationOn day 3 of testing Perplexity’s Comet browser, something remarkable happened: I stopped typing URLs entirely. My brain had completely rewired from “where do I go?” to “what do I want?” — and this cognitive shift happened before the AI could reliably deliver on that promise. This gap between mental transformation and technical reality defines the next decade of UX
“Good design isn’t just seen — it’s felt.”
Hey everyone! It’s been a long break since I’ve written about my micro-interactions or tutorials on how to create them. I promise to make…
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The smallest design details often speak the loudest, silently shaping our emotional connection to the digital world.
Every effective micro-interaction is composed of four fundamental parts: the trigger, the rules, the feedback, and the loops and modes. The…
User behavior regarding mobile applications have undergone great metamorphoses within the last few years. During the era of vanishing…
The machines are reading our minds now, or at least pretending to, and the whole digital interface landscape has turned into a kaleidoscope…
Most designers build for the "happy path"—but real users live in the chaos. From screen readers to emoji-only usernames, edge cases expose where your UX actually fails. If you’re ignoring the 1%, you’re not just missing users—you’re building exclusion into your product.
Why did a tiny logo change cost GOV.UK so much?Continue reading on UX Collective »
Hey HN, Last week, I spent 40 minutes debugging a production issue that should have taken 5. Not because the bug was complex, but because I kept switching between Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Gemini - copying context, losing thread, starting over. The workflow was painful: 1. Claude Code couldn't reproduce a React rendering bug 2. Copy-pasted 200 lines to Cursor - different answer, still wrong 3. Tried Codex - needed to re-explain the database schema 4. Finally Gemini spot