Interactivity - Crafting Better Web Experiences

Product design in 2026: the beginning of a fantastic voyage?

The invisible walls for designers have been broken down. Maybe we don’t know it yet, but this year is the perfect time to start reframing the influence and vision of product design within and beyond companies.All the walls that might keep us in secondary or even tertiary roles are down, and this is the time to start using what we have learned so far to discover a new design value that transcends mockups and points to the entire business.In my experience in the industry, historically, all product

The chat box isn’t a UI paradigm. It’s what shipped.

Chat is the AI interface that shipped fastest, not the one that worked. The 2024 retrofits prove it.Every affordance on the left became an unspoken assumption on the right. Users now have to guess what the system can do.I wrote this essay from firsthand experience building AI-adjacent products. I used Claude Code (an AI coding assistant) for structural feedback and copy editing on the draft. The arguments, citations, and conclusions are my own.Disclosure: I build browser extensions that wrap aro

The web trained AI to deceive. Now designers have to untrain it.

Your team may be shipping manipulative UX, and you may not be aware of it.LLMs trained on the web have absorbed its worst design habits. Or, to be precise, our worst design habits.Not to generalize, but even though they’re considered unethical, many companies use design tricks to deceive users into making choices they would not otherwise make. These are the so-called UX dark patterns.Now, all these malicious techniques have been inherited by LLMs and unconsciously replicated. The same way they r

The art of subtraction in a world of infinite features

A reflection on clarity, restraint, and what it truly means to design meaningful experiences looking at the bigger pictureContinue reading on UX Collective »

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

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 —

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: 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

Session Timeouts: The Overlooked Accessibility Barrier In Authentication Design

For web professionals, session management is a balancing act between user experience, cybersecurity, and resource usage. For people with disabilities, it is more than that — it is a barrier to buying digital tickets, scrolling on social media, or applying for a loan online. Session timeout accessibility can be the difference between a bad day and a good day for those with disabilities.For many, getting halfway through an important form only to be unceremoniously kicked back to the login screen i

What we behold, the trust-latency gap, designing haptics

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.“The sentiment of the change brought on by AI has never been more relevant than it is now. Technology has always accelerated, but it feels like we are at an inflection point. Where AI business innovation, AI automation, and AI-driven technological disruption are shaping us faster than we can behold. Whether you like it or not, our tools are shaping us, and we are complicit in their methods and tricks.”We become what we behold →By Chris

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 »