How user segmentation, rather than personas, helps you get design buy-in
Businesses need to know who their user is, and how many there areContinue reading on UX Collective »
Businesses need to know who their user is, and how many there areContinue reading on UX Collective »
Exploring navigation as something bigger than moving through physical and digital spaces — as a fundamental cognitive actShipping the package that’s yourself (Image generated using Procreate and Nanobanana)A few weeks ago, I read an article — A new navigation paradigm — that felt relatable, yet unsettling in a way I couldn’t fully articulate. I eventually stopped thinking about it, but the ideas lingered in the background. They then surfaced in the most mundane and seemingly unrelated places.A f
How product teams should evaluate AI-generated UIAI app-building tools have made it inconsequential and mundane to turn an idea into a working prototype. You only need a couple prompts, a design file, or even a sketch to quickly generate something that looks (even behaves) like a real product. For product teams, this speed has changed expectations in the design and development process.Prototypes are no longer as special as they once were. They’re now the bare minimum.But this speed comes with li
How “vibedesign” created a vicious slope of AI slop (and how to get out).Continue reading on UX Collective »
"When perception shifts, and the feeling of control takes over")I wrote up a deep dive into a security issue in OpenClaw that escalates from a seemingly small UX/trust boundary problem into full remote code execution via a single malicious link.The article walks through the full exploit chain from a systems perspective rather than just a CVE summary. The key theme is what I call “synesthetic computation”: when subjective context, UI state, agent memory, and system permissions get
I posted Julie here a few days ago as a weekend prototype: an open-source desktop assistant that lives as a tiny overlay and uses your screen as context (instead of copy/paste, tab switching, etc.)Update: I just shipped Julie v1.0, and the big change is that it’s no longer only “answer questions about my screen.” It can now run agents (writing/coding) and a computer-use mode via a CUA toolkit. ((https://tryjulie.vercel.app/))What that means in practice:- General AI assis
Apple’s "Liquid Glass" experiment has officially shattered, proving that obsession with aesthetics over usability is a billion-dollar mistake. As iOS 26 drains batteries and kills accessibility, a massive internal "Solid Design" rescue mission is underway to save the iPhone from its own ego.
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.“It might be a sign of changing times and of our industry, it might be a marketing push from the companies betting big on AI. I don’t know. But there seems to be a sort of urgency for something new. For speed. For freedom. For paving a new path. For simplicity. For flexibility. A push for something else rather than Design Thinking as the standard design process.”The natural design process →By Filip MishevskiEditor picksWhen AI passes t
Data collection is being automated. The strategic layer is wide open. The question is which side of that line you’re standing on.Photo by Wes Hicks on UnsplashThe research industry is getting commodified.A wave of AI-powered platforms can now conduct interviews, run surveys at scale, transcribe sessions, cluster themes, and deliver summary reports faster than any human team. Tools like Maze, Dovetail, Outset AI, and Listen Labs have compressed what used to take six to eight weeks into hours.The
AI tools have made AI UX design wildly productive: you can prompt your way to screens, flows, even working prototypes in minutes. But the friction didn’t vanish — it moved downstream. From makers to users. From “hard to build” to “hard to un...
# 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
We’re building Tikpal, an AI voice productivity tool based on a simple principle: Human creativity should remain the core engine. AI should be an accelerator, not the protagonist.The goal is to reduce screen dependency and cognitive fragmentation, and let people work in a more natural “voice-first” flow. Instead of clicking through interfaces and context-switching between apps, you talk to Tikpal, and it helps you think, structure ideas, and execute tasks.Three layers we are focusing on:FOCUS —
# 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
Designing with Data provides an extensive background to A/B testing.As with all other research methods, we need to start with a research question. A/B testing concerns itself with changes in user behavior, meaning that our questions need to be centered on measurable goals. In many cases, these will be conversions already defined as goals in our web or app analytics. In the video William Hudson discusses good and bad examples of research questions as well as introducing a few advanced topics:[[vi
“Green field” sites are new developments while “brown field” are based on existing solutions.In this video we look at getting started with analytics and how best to apply them:[[video:949]]Resources & Where to Learn MoreGoogle Analytics Academy (free online courses)Image© Frank Fischbach and Shutterstock, Royalty-free
We start our introduction to A/B and multivariate testing (MVT) by looking at their basic principles and their differences. Note that the video mentions Google Optimize, which has been withdrawn. Google Firebase can be used for mobile platforms. Third-party solutions are needed for A/B testing on the web. These solutions can be integrated with Google Analytics 4. See the references section for more details.[[video:910]]References & Where to Learn MoreIntroducing Firebase A/B Testing (for mobile)
Analytics contains many kinds of types of data including bounce rates, conversion rates, repeat usage, user demographics, search behavior, and user journeys.We’re going to start our adventure into the world of analytics by looking at the kind of data that we are typically provided:Bounce ratesConversion rates (achievement of goals)Repeat usageUser profiles/demographics/platformsSearch behaviorUser journeysAnd more…We say “provided” because these figures are all collected for you automatically by
First-Click Testing shows you where users start their journey.First-click testing is very simple in concept and is pretty well described by its name; users are given a task and are asked to click on a design representation to indicate where they’d start. The design representation could be nothing more than a pencil sketch through to wireframes or nearly-finished screenshots. Bear in mind that the earlier we begin testing, the better!The video provides practical advice on getting started:[[video:
Tree Testing helps you to find where users get lost in your navigation.Tree testing provides goal-oriented verification of a navigation hierarchy. No other part of the solution is involved since users only interact with a simulation of the menus. In the video William Hudson talks about getting started with tree testing:[[video:918]]References & Where to Learn MoreOptimal Workshop’s Treejack (tree-testing tool)Image© Daniel Skrok and Interaction Design Foundation, CC BY-SA 3.0
Example of a tree-testing “pietree” from Optimal WorkshopAs with most research tools, you need to decide what you’re trying to find out and who to conduct your research with. In this video, William Hudson talks about these important questions and the related issues of participant recruitment and screening:[[video:917]]References & Where to Learn MoreOptimal Workshop, Tree and First-Click TestingUsabilityHub, First-Click TestsUXarmy, Tree TestingUXtweak, Tree TestingOptimal Workshop, Add part