Interactivity - Crafting Better Web Experiences

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

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

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 —

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

# 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

TelUI 1.2: TelUI with fun alignments

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: 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 is ruining the way you talk about your work

Chat UI rewards fluency, not precision. Your expertise lives in precision.Continue reading on UX Collective »

The deceptive nature of today’s AI conversation design and how to fix it

The case to stop designing human conversations for non-human participantsImage by Harli MartenAs a content designer and passionate writer, conversation design has been intriguing to me since its infancy. From the little blurbs Microsoft’s Clippy spat out, to how Spotify’s Wrapped campaign addressed users in a dialogue-mimicking way. To me, it’s fascinating how small tweaks in sentence structure and language can make words feel more two-way than one-way in an instant.The birth of a conversation.F

Claude CoWork + UXR Deliverables

I hate making deliverables. So I made Claude do it and accidentally built something better than any journey map I’ve ever made.Research deliverables f*cking suck. I’m a words person. I do not have a design bone in my body, not even the tip of a pinky bone. I will write you a beautiful report. I will not make you a beautiful journey map and yet somehow half my job is making beautiful journey maps.So when clients started asking for dynamic deliverables lately, my honest reaction was th

Pixels of the Week – April 19, 2026

This week covers a wireframing with ASCII text tool, removing before adding as design principle, and how AI speeds up code but not projects. Also: a beautiful river-inspired font, some Wikipedia rabbit hole and a Figma find & replace in frames plugin.

Rethinking the shape of design teams in an AI world

For our juniors, organisations and future generations to come.As AI disrupts the design process and traditional hierarchies, organisations must shift to a “dual transformation” model that balances high-velocity atomic innovation with a stable tomato core. By using a Capability Link to bridge these structures, teams can scale breakthroughs while ensuring juniors develop the foundational mastery needed to become the next generation of seniors. (image source: yeo)Jenny broke the design process. As

Becoming an AI-native designer

On demos, tacit knowledge, and building your own scaffoldingI’ve spent seven years in the design industry. Strip away the user research and product definition, and the core task was always the same: draw things. Wireframes, visual specs — hand them to engineering, then wait.I was essentially a translator.Translating requirements into ideas, ideas into files, and then waiting for someone else to translate those files into code.The original design workflowThat changed in 2024.My main tools now are

The misrepresentation of “good taste” as a core design skill

“Good taste” might be one of the most misleading phrases in the world of UX design at the moment.Continue reading on UX Collective »

Test smart: how to approach AI and stay sane?

The line between human expertise and AI-assisted results gets delicate, yet there are ways to befriend new technology.On my trip to Trieste, I met a colleague, a software developer, who offered a fresh view of the IT field. Our discussion ended with a classic rant on AI stealing our jobs. Yet, is it really AI? The reason is something deeper.If even Gen Z colleagues are concerned about it, I’m losing my initial optimism. Is AI a threat to the industry or a helper that could save us time on repeti

Are we makers by nature — or consumers by design?

Are we makers by nature — or consumers by design?You were wired to create. The digital environment around you was designed to keep you consuming. So, what happens when something has to give?Picture a designer at the end of a working day. They’ve reviewed a dozen AI-generated concepts, responded to Slack threads, scrolled through Dribbble for inspiration that never quite arrived, and delivered a prototype that wasn’t entirely theirs. Technically productive. Creatively hollow. But the real questio

Your AI agent can read your codebase. It doesn’t know your product.

How to feed AI coding agents the brand, patterns, and visual language that aren’t in your code.An open book of code lines beside a fanned deck of design specimens — the two artifacts of a product, only one of which the agent can read. Generated with OpenAI.TL;DR. AI coding agents can grep your codebase. They still produce generic-SaaS output because they lack the design context of your product: how it behaves, which interaction patterns it rejects on principle, what makes it feel like yours. I w

Folder instructions — Instructions for system-level AI

An idea to turn folders from passive storage into active systems that organise, act, and evolve based on your intent.Folder instructionsThe Claws and Claudes of the world have introduced a new way of interacting with AI assistants. Yes, they can take over your laptop, act on your behalf, organise your files, and even execute ideas within certain limits. But something more fundamental has changed.They are structured.For the first time, users can organise conversations with an assistant and its ou

Haptics: how to build a consistent cross-platform solution and align code with Figma

How we turned Apple’s haptic semantics into three numeric parameters that work identically on iOS, Android, and web — and mirror our Figma components.I’m currently working on a design system for a large SDUI project, and in this article I want to share my experience implementing haptics in our applications: explore the challenges you may encounter and arrive at a consistent solution across three platforms — iOS, Android, and mobile web.In this article, I’ll walk step by step from chaos (“each pl

How to Plan for Creativity: Effective Time-Management Plans for Your Large-Scale Creative Projects

[[video:109]]It’s a recipe for disaster if you simply add a step entitled "be creative" into a linear plan for a creative work project. Likewise, if you just wait for that heavenly spark of insight to come, you may be in for a not-so-great, long-drawn-out surprise. In this video, you’ll learn three best practices on how to create high-gain and low-risk plans that are both open to creative insight and yet also guaranteed to produce useful results. We'll teach you ways to break down major high-ris