How I approach micro-interactions. Let’s dive in!
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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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 —
The Curious Tale Behind “The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog”
You’ve seen the sentence—“The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”—but did you know it’s been secretly running the alphabet game since 1885? From typewriters to font previews, this odd little pangram is the unsung hero of design and tech. Turns out, the fox didn’t just jump… it owned the keyboard.
The ship of Theseus paradox in AI-assisted writing
Turns out, the more feelings in your text, the weirder it feels to let AI touch it.The Ship of Theseus reimagined: a vessel where wooden planks are being replaced with silicon chips. Generated in Sora.I use AI writing tools the way most people use spellcheck: casually, constantly, almost without thought. A typo here, a phrasing fix there, a quick “make it flow better.” Over time, it’s become second nature that I write through the machine.And that’s not unusual. Grammarly alone reports over 40 mi
CSS Gamepad API Visual Debugging With CSS Layers
When you plug in a controller, you mash buttons, move the sticks, pull the triggers… and as a developer, you see none of it. The browser’s picking it up, sure, but unless you’re logging numbers in the console, it’s invisible. That’s the headache with the Gamepad API.It’s been around for years, and it’s actually pretty powerful. You can read buttons, sticks, triggers, the works. But most people don’t touch it. Why? Because there’s no feedback. No panel in developer tools. No clear way to know if
Enshittification by Design: Why Every Interface Turns Against You
Every website starts out loving you, then one day, it turns on you. Enshittification by Design exposes how beautiful, user-friendly interfaces quietly become manipulative tools built to trap you. It’s not a glitch in tech — it’s the business model, and designers are the ones making it irresistible.
Getting Strategic with Triangulation | Brett Kurjewski (Accelerant Research)
Listen now on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube.—Brett Krajewski is the Vice President of Research & Growth at Accelerant Research, where he leads the research and client solutions teams, delivering innovative insights to empower businesses and many fortune 500 companies. He was most recently featured on an episode of Awkward Silences Podcast, and has some upcoming webinars. With a career spanning both in-house industry roles and consulting/agency leadership, Brett has built and led high-per
Older Tech In The Browser Stack
I’ve been in front-end development long enough to see a trend over the years: younger developers working with a new paradigm of programming without understanding the historical context of it. It is, of course, perfectly understandable to not know something. The web is a very big place with a diverse set of skills and specialties, and we don’t always know what we don’t know. Learning in this field is an ongoing journey rather than something that happens once and ends.Case in point: Someone on my
What designers can learn from Zohran Mamdani's historical campaign
How user-centered design principles transformed a grassroots political movement into a viral phenomenon and what it means for design practice.Zohran Mamdani Logo designed by Aneesh Bhoopathy.The year is 2025, and New York City, “The Greatest City in The World” has a 34-year-old, democratic socialist and Muslim mayor! Mamdani’s campaign has inspired millions, many of whom not New Yorkers and, most impressively, not even American or located in America.His campaign didn’t just change politics, it o
The evolution of Youtube: How every platform evolves into an ad machine
A guide to the extinction of user joy in the digital age.An crap shaped ad, emerging from a cellphone.I was halfway through doing the dishes while listening to a podcast when an ad cut through and interrupted one of the most interesting bits. My phone was a few meters away in the living room and I rushed over like I had forgotten a burning turkey in the oven to make sure that I got to the phone before the second ad started playing. I tapped that lower-right hand skip button and the tension in my
2025 Meditation App Landscape: Comprehensive Review of Top Mindfulness Platforms
The meditation app market reached $5.8 billion in 2025, with users prioritizing privacy, scientific backing, and authentic practice over flashy features. After testing leading platforms, here's an honest assessment. Market Leaders Calm - Content Powerhouse Strengths: 15,000+ guided sessions, premium sleep content, celebrity collaborations Weaknesses: $14.99/month steep for basic needs, overwhelming interface, sleep-focused over traditional meditation 2025 Innovation: AI-
Guiding the future of ethical design
How to translate philosophical theory into practical design principles and responsibility.The following article introduces an evolving academic framework called Ethical Interface Design, which examines how moral philosophy can guide interface design in the era of emerging technologies. The working site, ethicalinterface.com, presents these ideas through a minimalist, text-focused layout that intentionally prioritizes thought over visuals — a meta-commentary on where design itself may be heading.
Why it’s okay to break a fundamental piece of design advice
Showing a high-fidelity version of the future isn’t as taboo anymoreContinue reading on UX Collective »
The future of work is sensemaking
AI can automate frameworks, but not their interpretation or meaning.AI can now generate design artefacts in seconds. It can fill in a Value Proposition Canvas, a journey map, or a jobs-to-be-done structure with impressive speed and coherence. For designers and other professionals, this raises an uncomfortable question: if machines can apply the tools of our disciplines, where does that leave human expertise?The answer lies not in what AI can produce, but in what humans can decide. The real trans
Learning by doing: an essential method in a design course
Project work is a crucial experience in our UI Design master’s educational process. Here is how we structured and refined it over time to…Continue reading on UX Collective »
When building software became easier with AI, deciding became harder
When you can build a working prototype in an afternoon, the question is no longer can you make it — it’s should you build it, and what should you build.Most founders and teams struggle with those questions, not because they lack conviction, but because they test that conviction too late. Resources get committed before customer needs are validated. Confirmation bias filters what gets heard. They often fall in love with solutions before fully understanding the problems they need to solve.AI-accele
Internalize the problem before jumping into the solution
And why history repeats itself over and over again.Sip, Dip and Flip is how the ideal process works.Have you ever been frustrated by an app or website that seems to be working against you? It’s as if the designers didn’t think about how real people would use it. That’s where product thinking comes in. It’s a way of designing that keeps the user at the forefront of the process, ensuring that their needs and challenges are fully understood before any solutions are created. In this post, I will sha
Let designers think
How “Thinking” + “Designing” need to be practiced outside AI.Continue reading on UX Collective »
Everything I know about behavioral design I learned at Orange Julius
OK, not really.Continue reading on UX Collective »
Effectively Monitoring Web Performance
This article is a sponsored by DebugBearThere’s no single way to measure website performance. That said, the Core Web Vitals metrics that Google uses as a ranking factor are a great starting point, as they cover different aspects of visitor experience:Largest Contentful Paint (LCP): Measures the initial page load time.Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS): Measures if content is stable after rendering.Interaction to Next Paint (INP): Measures how quickly the page responds to user input.There are also ma