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Show HN: Tikpal- Your AI Voice Partner – Focus, Flow, Forge

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 —

Show HN: Create an onboarding flow on Flutter in 5 min

Hey Flutter devsIf you've shipped apps before, you know how important it is to have an efficient and polished onboarding flow. It's the first thing users see and often the reason they leave.You've probably first focused on the core of your app, what makes it different. And now, you want to push it to the store, but you know you have to build an onboarding flow... and it's a little painful.Onboarding flows are deceptive. They are super easy to build technically, but very diffi

TelUI 1.2: TelUI with fun alignments

# 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

Why is real-world ASR still ~85% when lab models claim >95%?

Curious to hear what approaches people are taking, what the bottlenecks are, and whether anyone here is pushing toward the goal of "AI that understands you, the first time."I've been diving into the gap between benchmark ASR performance and real-world speech. Models like Whisper and Deepgram show impressive >95% accuracy in ideal conditions. But in the wild — accents, noisy environments, emotional speech, code-switching, overlapping speakers — accuracy often drops sharply, ofte

TelUI 1.1: New TelUI version Complete with tools to develop good software

Show HN: RotaFlow – A privacy-first shift calendar built with SwiftUI

I built RotaFlow to solve the UX disaster of current shift work apps. Most incumbents are web-wrappers laden with ads.The Stack:* Language: Swift 6 / SwiftUI. * Persistence: Core Data synced via CloudKit (NSPersistentCloudKitContainer). * Architecture: MVVM with a custom "LoopEngine" for O(1) shift calculation.The Interesting Part: I implemented a "Future Cliff" paywall. The app is fully functional for the next 30 days. Accessing dates beyond t+30d triggers a blurred UI

Show HN: Synesthetic Computation

"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

Show HN: Aperture Core – a human attention control plane for agent systems

I just released the first public version of Aperture Core, an SDK for deciding which agent events deserve human attention now, which should wait, and which should stay in the background.The core loop is simple: - publish an event - get back a frame if it should enter the human attention surface - render that frame in your UI/workflow - submit the human response back into the engineAs agents get more capable and one human starts supervising more of them, the bottleneck shifts toward human at

Disruption has a shape. Design history shows us what it is.

Democratisation, panic, quality collapse, then new norms emerging. This isn’t new terrain.Scroll through any design discussion right now and you’ll find the same anxieties circulating. The specifics vary. Which tools to learn, whether the career ladder still holds, what counts as “distinctly human,” to name a few. But the underlying question is the same: will AI replace us, and what should we be doing about it?The unease is palpable, and it’s not abstract. Design teams are shrinking. Generative

Google Stitch, design maturity guide, livable products

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.“I woke up this morning to see Figma stocks had plummeted by nearly 12% as a result of Google formally launching its Google Stitch AI design tool. I was in a 1:1 call with my manager today, and she was telling me about how she thinks something big is brewing. She was there during the rise of Figma when the majority of the design market was still using Sketch.”Google says “Vibe Design” is here, but it didn’t pass my vibe check →By Elvis

Taste is not a feature

On judgement, context, and why AI makes taste more important, not less.Photo by Juan Miguel Agudo on Unsplash“Taste has no system and no proofs. But there is something like a logic of taste: the consistent sensibility which underlies and gives rise to a certain taste.” — Susan Sontag, 1964 1Sixty years later, that line lands with a different weight. We are living through the fastest expansion of productive capability in the history of creative work. AI can generate interfaces, brands, campaigns,

Stop Designing for Delighted Users (and Start Designing for Cognitive Strain)

"Delight" is the ultimate trap: by making the web frictionless, we’ve made it forgettable. In 2026, the most successful brands are abandoning "seamless" UX in favor of "Meaningful Friction"—intentional hurdles that wake up the user’s brain and turn passive clicks into lasting loyalty.

The Site-Search Paradox: Why The Big Box Always Wins

In the early days of the web, the search bar was a luxury, added to a site once it became “too big” to navigate by clicking. We treated it like an index at the back of a book: a literal, alphabetical list of words that pointed to specific pages. If you typed the exact word the author used, you found what you needed. If you didn’t, you were met with a “0 Results Found” screen that felt like a digital dead end.Twenty-five years later, we are still building search bars that act like 1990s index car

Testing Synthetic Research in Practice

I’ve spent the past few months watching synthetic research show up everywhere. Conference talks. LinkedIn posts. Case studies. Every time I saw it, I had the same reaction. This is going to be a disaster.Not because synthetic research is inherently bad, but because I know what happens when a new tool promises efficiency. Someone uses it to skip the real work. Someone points to synthetic data and says “we don’t need to do user research anymore!”The User Research Strategist

The mirage of UX Design’s demise keeps coming back

Why do we declare endings when we don’t understand transitions?Continue reading on UX Collective »

Increase Website Engagement with Micro Interactions

This CXL Feed explores the use of micro-interactions on websites and landing pages, inspired by Apple's iPhone 16 launch page.

Micro-interactions still matter

It's the little UI/UX touches that make your app feel alive. Let's look at 4 simple lines of CSS that can transform a boring interaction ...

What AI exposes about design

What we lost when design became mainly UI, and what AI gives us the chance to reclaimDesign practice is changing again. The process is shrinking, and most tasks, especially the ones usually reserved for junior designers, are being automated. Speed is even more important than before, and the go-to-market timeline is reducing consistently with the advancement in AI technologies.AI is making the prototyping part of the discipline easier and — to a certain extent — accessible to more and more people

Fail-Safe Foresight: Practicing Strategic Foresight in Today’s Organizations

In this tutorial you will learn:Foundations of foresight strategy, methods, and practicesOrganizational and psychological reasons many foresight programs fail, and how to counteract themExercises to practice foresight skillsTake-home template for your own foresight databaseEthnographers and researchers frequently play the role of canary in the coal mine, sounding the alarm about weak signals that will become big problems if left unaddressed. But all too often, their warnings are not acted upon i

Your Tech Stack Needs A Thinking Stack: Building a High-Value Ethnographic Practice in the AI Era

In this tutorial you will learn:The promises, limitations, and professional implications of AI research toolsCognitive and social dynamics of automations and human–AI interactionThe core drivers of value and creative adaptation in ethnographic workStrategies for deciding when and how your team should integrate AI research toolsAs AI research tools and the pressure to use them proliferate, it’s time to evolve our tech stacks. Even more urgently, it’s time to evolve our ‘thinking stacks’ so we can