Creativity is dead; long live creativity
My shifting view of creativity shows it grows from slow, deliberate practice, experimenting, failing, refining, not from instant results.Continue reading on UX Collective »
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How Designers Can Make Money on Gumroad in 2025
Designers are turning Gumroad into full-time income by selling digital products that earn while they sleep. From $15 icon packs to $149 design systems, here’s the playbook to package, launch, and promote for maximum sales.
Show HN: I built whatstype.org – a free personality test site
Hey HN,I recently built whatstype.org , a free personality test website that helps people explore their thinking, communication, and relationship patterns.Unlike most MBTI-style sites that only give you a short label, Whatstype digs deeper:The test adapts to your responses dynamicallyResults are structured around reasoning style, emotional pattern, and social interactionEach of the 16 personality types includes detailed analysis, strengths, challenges, and real-life adviceNo login, no tracking —
Dawn of the undead peripheral
The saga of making a computer perched on a human face look coolContinue reading on UX Collective »
The internet needs an AI off switch
People want the human internet back.AI Robot getting stuck in a Pinterest filterPinterest’s new AI filter could be the next step in the evolution of the internet. It’s the first major platform to actually adjust to what a lot of people have been feeling. Our feeds across a broad spectrum of apps are being flooded with low-quality AI slop. The effect is a degradation of trust and an increasing desire to have more control over what we actually see. Pinterest’s move is the first real signal that pl
Apps have made shopping and dining less accessible, not more
The entire experience has turned into a confusing and frustrating messContinue reading on UX Collective »
User Personas vs Customer Personas: What's the Difference?
Personas drive both the products users love and the campaigns buyers trust. But mix them up—using a customer persona to solve a UX challenge—and you'll build solutions that miss the mark. Both personas have names, photos, and stories; both seem to represent your audience. Yet, confusing them leads to weak products and ineffective campaigns. With persona clarity, you position yourself to lead, delivering solutions users embrace and marketing that authentically persuades.In this video, William Hud
The Accessibility Problem With Authentication Methods Like CAPTCHA
The Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) has become ingrained in internet browsing since personal computers gained momentum in the consumer electronics market. For nearly as long as people have been going online, web developers have sought ways to block spam bots. The CAPTCHA service distinguishes between human and bot activity to keep bots out. Unfortunately, its methods are less than precise. In trying to protect humans, developers have made much
How AI Took Over Stock Photography
AI didn’t just disrupt stock photography—it buried it. Why pay for a staged handshake photo when you can generate 500 versions in seconds? Stock agencies are scrambling, photographers are furious, and designers are quietly loving every second of it.
What an accessibility conference taught me about designing for all
and how understanding human abilities can transform the way we build products and places.Continue reading on UX Collective »
Design System Culture: What It Is And Why It Matters (Excerpt)
This article is a sponsored by Maturing Design SystemsDesign systems have become an integral part of our everyday work, so much that the successful growth and maturation of a design system can make or break a product or project. Great tokens, components and organization aren’t enough — it is most often the culture and curation that creates a sustainable, widely-adopted system. It can be hard to determine where to invest our time and attention. How do we build and maintain design systems that sup
Florence Nightingale on vanity metrics
The least useful numbers we take the most seriouslyFlorence Nightingale — image generated with aiPeople want numbers. Knowing what those numbers mean usually comes second to watching them move in the right direction. More users, more logins, more clicks. It’s remarkable how quickly a rising metric starts to feel like sound judgment.But a metric that feels good isn’t the same as a metric that helps you decide anything.And that gap (the space between numbers that impress and numbers that matter) i
Why soft skills will define design careers over the next two years
Here’s what 21 design leaders told me is critical for their teamsContinue reading on UX Collective »
Beyond the Report | Matt Thomas (Motability Operations)
Listen now on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube.—Matt Thomas is a Design, Research, and Product leader at Motability Operations where he leads the Design and Research efforts for a range of products, from a commerce platform for selling used cars to colleague-facing tools that support that website. His team also designs for a vehicle refurbishment workshop, a completely different challenge with a unique set of users, which keeps things interesting.They work closely with Product and Technology te
Locksmith stickers are annoying, but kind of genius
Locksmith stickers are annoying, illegal, and typographically messy. But by appearing where you least expect them — from letterboxes to…Continue reading on UX Collective »
Black Friday 2025: 10 Unmissable Deals for Web Designers
We’ve curated 10 design-focused deals that deliver real value for creatives—supercharging your projects in 2025 while making the most of Black Friday savings.
From Wireframes to Prototypes: Why Designers Need to Grow Up
Wireframes are dead, and prototypes killed them. In 2025, no one has time for grayscale boxes and lorem ipsum — the real work is happening in clickable, testable, living prototypes. If your design process still leans on wireframes, you’re not just behind — you’re signaling irrelevance.
Designing For Stress And Emergency
No design exists in isolation. As designers, we often imagine specific situations in which people will use our product. It might be indeed quite common — but there will also be other — urgent, frustrating, stressful situations. And they are the ones that we rarely account for.So how do we account for such situations? How can we help people use our products while coping with stress — without adding to their cognitive load? Let’s take a closer look.Study Where Your Product Fits Into People’s Lives
Unmoderated UXR, software with integrity, training LLMs on your design system
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.“Let’s take a critical view of unmoderated user testing. What if there is potential value in the interaction between humans that adds that extra layer to research findings? What if we risk missing something important when introducing remote unmoderated testing? And what happens when people get paid quite a lot to do not too much?”The illusion of unmoderated UX testing →By Sanna RauEditor picksWhen software has integrity →Three stories
Show HN: Skedular, a Smart Booking and Workspace Management Platform
Hi HNI have been working on Skedular a platform that helps organizations councils co working spaces and local businesses manage bookings shared spaces and multi location operations in a simple modern wayWhat Skedular does - Manage rooms desks studios sports facilities meeting spaces and any kind of bookable asset - Handle multi location multi team scenarios - Provide public booking pages for venues - Offer a clean dashboard for operators to manage availability payments customers and sched