Interactivity

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: 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

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

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.

The Great Transition: Why the Design World is Re-Evaluating Figma

Is the "industry standard" becoming the industry bottleneck? Designers are ditching the complexity of Figma’s "engineering-first" bloat to reclaim their creative freedom in a fragmented new world of specialized tools. The era of the single-tool monopoly is ending—and the era of the high-performance design stack has officially begun.

Write impactful user research insights

Maze’s Future of User Research Report 2026 just dropped and there’s a stat in it that made me stop mid-scroll. Research importance to business strategy nearly tripled in one year. Not doubled. Tripled. 41% of survey participants reported that research now informs both product and broader strategic business decisions. We’ve been saying research needs a seat at the table for years, and now that we’re pulling it up, the pressure is on to keep it there. This report covers whe

Show HN: Sushidata – automating the painful parts of competitor and VoC research

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

Show HN: SprintPulse – AI-powered retrospectives that drive action

Hi HN,I am the founder of SprintPulse. Like many of you, I used to dread retrospective meetings. They often turned into a repetitive cycle where we wrote down the same issues every sprint but never actually fixed them. "Better communication" was on our action item list for months.I built SprintPulse to fix that loop. It is a tool designed not just to collect feedback, but to make sure it leads to real change.When I looked at the tools available, I found they fell into two camps.On one

Forget your “lovable” products; the real leverage point was always learning.

Creating the products and services we always wanted to build was never about changing the definition.Continue reading on UX Collective »

No further questions… please.

Daniel Kahneman and the feeling of being caughtDaniel KahnemanI like a good reframe. Don’t you?It used to be that saying “I don’t know” felt like honesty. Why does it now feel like it means something else?Why do follow up questions feel like predetermined resentments? (a phrase I used on my first date with my wife of now 13 years about having expectations)I’m Nate Sowder, and this is unquoted, installment 17. Knowing something and understanding it are two different things. Today, we’re looking a

How werewolves killed my Pinterest

This is what happens when your attention is being actively hijacked — the best “inspo pics” app is now unusable.Continue reading on UX Collective »

How accepting “just build this thing” can hurt your design career

Designers are being asked to build fast. Here’s why you need to push backContinue reading on UX Collective »