Interactivity

The UX of survival in the age of AI deepfakes

A framework for Crisis Information Design.FAKE!!! This image was shared on social media and confirmed as fake by SnopesPeople can no longer tell the difference between real images and AI-generated ones. That’s not an opinion. It’s a finding from researchers at UC Berkeley and SUNY Buffalo, who demonstrated that AI-synthesized faces are now perceived as more trustworthy than real human faces. Let that sink in for a second: the fake version of reality is more believable than reality itself.Meanwhi

Dear diary, you’re the last good listener

Adam Smith on why 250 years of empathy still leaves us feeling unheard.Adam Smith — Image created with AIWe talk about empathy more than ever. Listening sessions. Trainings designed to “meet people where they are.” Empathy maps meant to snapshot customer personas.And still, the people who open up often walk away feeling drained.Why?It felt like a conversation. There was back-and-forth. No open disagreement. Nothing hostile.So what was it?Why is it that everything you said (some of it personal) w

10 Ways to Reduce Cognitive Load Without Turning Your UI Into a Minimalist Ghost Town

Ever feel like some apps are fighting you? That’s cognitive load — tiny moments of friction that drain your brain. Fix those, and your product instantly feels smarter, faster, and way more human.

Breaking the echo chamber in your interface

Your chatbot would praise your worst ideas. Here’s how to design interfaces that push back instead.Image based on Las Meninas by Velázquez (1656)Throwback to the last time this happened to you. You’re brainstorming with a chatbot. Somehow, every idea you throw out gets an enthusiastic response. First, it’s “great thinking!” Next, you hear “that’s a really interesting angle.” By the time you get to “you’re onto something here,” you wonder if you should be running for president with all the wisdom

Your users aren’t human anymore; start building for agents today

Disclaimer: although I am going to use industry examples from products I am building at Miro to illustrate key ideas in this piece, I am sharing my own POV, and I am not speaking on behalf of Miro.For decades, a single question has dominated startup boardrooms and venture capitalist pitch meetings: “What’s your DAU/WAU/MAU?” The trinity of Daily, Weekly, and Monthly Active Users has been the number 1 undisputed set of metrics. It has been widely considered the ultimate proxy for engagement and a

Say Cheese! Meet SmashingConf Amsterdam 🇳🇱

We’ve been passionate about design & UX for years. We’ve published articles on design systems and usability, inclusive design and product design, UX research and enterprise UX. Now it’s time to bring it all together: In-person. In a new location. With a new spirit of curiosity and community. And it’s happening this April!Meet the first SmashingConf Amsterdam 🇳🇱 taking place on April 13–16, 2026! A conference for designers and UI engineers all around UX and front-end: design systems, accessib

How to Run a Concept Test

Hi, I’m Nikki. I run Drop In Research, where I help teams stop launching “meh” and start shipping what customers really need. I write about the conversations that change a roadmap, the questions that shake loose real insight, and the moves that get leadership leaning in. Bring me to your team.Paid subscribers get the power tools: the UXR Tools Bundle with a full year of four top platforms free, plus all my Substack content, and a bangin’ Slack community where you can ask

Managing a participant panel for a government service

Practical tips for having access to a diverse range of usersThe Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) designs and delivers services that support farming, food production, animal welfare, environmental protection and rural communities across the UK. It’s where I work as a panel manager, supporting user research across these varied and often complex service areas.Defra, via Sophie WerkshagenWhen people picture government user research, they often think of the visible parts — t

When anyone can build anything

AI coding tools are rewriting who gets to make software. The question isn’t whether that’s good. It’s what it does to the things we use every day.In 2023, a controlled study found that developers using GitHub Copilot completed a coding task 55% faster than those without it. That’s your 4-week sprint becoming a 2-week sprint.By 2025, 25% of Y Combinator’s Winter batch had codebases that were 95% AI-generated. Collins Dictionary named “vibe coding” its 2025 Word of the Year. The AI code generation

The design failures of consumer IoT

And how connectivity can create dependency instead of empowermentContinue reading on UX Collective »

Cursor vs. antigravity after a week of real use

in the first week of 2026 i ended up using cursor and google antigravity back to back, not by plan but because i burned through two cursor ultra subscriptions faster than expected and decided to try antigravity on the free tier.my normal usage is ~$60–100/month. within a few days it jumped to $500+, with the dashboard projecting ~$1.6k/month. max mode was off, and the ui consistently showed a 200k context window.what i eventually pieced together is that cursor maintains a large hidden

Show HN: LogiCart – Agentic shopping using Generative UI (A2UI pattern)

Hey HN, I’m the solo builder behind LogiCart.I recently refactored my frontend to use a Generative UI pattern (inspired by Google's new A2UI framework) because I realized a static chat interface fails for complex shopping intents.The Problem: A user buying a single item needs a completely different UX than a user planning a complex project. A standard "list of cards" doesn't work for both.The Solution: I built an Intent-to-UI engine where the LLM decides the interface structu

Show HN: I built a Finances app for Mac where you own the SQLite database

Hey HN,I feel like there is a gap in personal finance apps: local-first options typically have less polished UIs, while those with great design like Monarch Money are not local-first. This app fills the gap by providing a modern UI like Monarch/Monzo along with a database that you can hack around with outside of the app. File > app!- Local-first: transactions are stored in an encrypted SQLite database on your Mac, so you can read/write to it with Claude Code or your favourite DB cli

Show HN: Subatix – your local-first consulting team in an AI-workspace

Hello HN!We, a team of 2, built Subatix after one of us spent almost 6 years in big consulting and at certain point came to a thought like «90% of what consulting is usually data-analysis related, why not make smth so any business get same level of insights without externals and 6-figure+ checks and fast?!». Based the experience during every project everyone wants - fast answers from their data, but real ops/business data is messy, sensitive, and hard to outsource to generic AI tools due to

AI writes the code and humans still write the rules

How Lovable, Cursor, and Bolt are rewriting who gets to build software — and the hidden costs nobody is talking about.Lovable hit $100M revenue in 8 months (Source: CB Insights).A quarter of all YC startups now ship code that’s 95% AI-written. And somewhere in Silicon Valley, a 22-year-old with no CS degree just launched an app used by 40,000 people — without writing a single line. Here’s the full, unfiltered story of who’s building the future, what’s working, what’s failing, and what it all mea

50+ clean interactions 1. Like & RT this post (must do both)2. Comment "Motion"& I will DM you #ui

I spent the last week recording animations from top SaaS apps Found 50+ clean micro-interactions that make users go "wow": ...

50 Flutter Animations and Micro-interactions 🔥😎

It's an attempt to create animations and micro-interactions found on Pinterest using Flutter . This is not a challenge it's some ...

3 Micro-Interactions That Make Apps Feel "Premium" | Rohan Mishra, uxcoach #shorts

Want your app to feel as smooth as Cred or Zomato? Add these 3 micro-interactions for an instant upgrade: The Success Tick: ...

4 Cool Nuxt 4 Micro Interactions you need to try!

In this video we create 4 new components that leverages micro-interactions to keep your users addicted to your creations! This is ...

6 Webflow Micro Interactions You Can Clone Today

Micro-interactions can help your website feel more polished and professional. These are some of the strategies that experts use to ...