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.
and how understanding human abilities can transform the way we build products and places.Continue reading on UX Collective »
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
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
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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, illegal, and typographically messy. But by appearing where you least expect them — from letterboxes to…Continue reading on UX Collective »
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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.
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
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
Hi HN!We built Speaker Analyzer to solve a simple problem: after long video meetings, I wanted to know who actually spoke, for how long, and how the conversation was distributed. I found myself wondering "did I dominate the conversation?" or "who barely spoke up?" With remote teams using Teams, Zoom, and Google Meet, I can now export these transcript files and easily analyze participation patterns.What we built:A privacy-first tool that turns your meeting transcript files (*.
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
How UX design created an addiction economy.Continue reading on UX Collective »
There is a contradiction in digitalisation. People have heaps of creative ideas on how to stop doomscrolling, and break their screen…Continue reading on UX Collective »
# TelUITelUI is a Electron-based UI framework that packages a handful of reusable front-end primitives—color utilities, typography helpers, and basic structural styles—so you can prototype simple desktop UI ideas with minimal setup.## Features - Bundled Electron runner (`npm start`) that serves `index.html` for instant desktop previews. - Tokenized styling layers: `color.css`, `font.css`, `header.css`, and `align.css` keep presentation rules isolated and easy to remix. - Micro-interaction helper
# TelUITelUI is a Electron-based UI framework that packages a handful of reusable front-end primitives—color utilities, typography helpers, and basic structural styles—so you can prototype simple desktop UI ideas with minimal setup.## Features - Bundled Electron runner (`npm start`) that serves `index.html` for instant desktop previews. - Tokenized styling layers: `color.css`, `font.css`, `header.css`, and `align.css` keep presentation rules isolated and easy to remix. - Micro-interaction helper
Getting to $1.25 billion without data or hacks.Continue reading on UX Collective »
James Madison — Universal History ArchiveHow James Madison, Elinor Ostrom, and Mahmood Mamdani warned us about systems that can’t stay balancedWe all have toxic traits. One of mine is widening a person’s argument to take away their moral grounding so they have to acknowledge the bigger picture. It’s hilarious. I don’t even have to disagree with them. Just open the lens a little… dopamine rush.And my excuse is balance. In politics, working toward balance used to be a sign of seriousness. Now it’s
Microcopy is supposed to guide users—but let’s be real, half the time it’s gaslighting us. From cheery cookie banners that secretly rob your data to “Oops!” error messages that tell you nothing, these tiny words are the web’s most manipulative tool. Designers call it *delight*, but users know it’s just UX in a clown suit.