Is addiction the responsibility of UX?
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Show HN: Zen Moment – A Developer-Friendly Breathing and Meditation Platform
Backstory: As a developer who spent years in front of screens dealing with stress and focus issues, I found most meditation apps either too childish or too commercial. I wanted to create a minimalist, developer-oriented tool that treats meditation as a productivity and mental health necessity rather than a trendy accessory. After optimizing the neumorphic design, SEO performance, and curating a library of natural soundscapes, I'm excited to share this with the HN community. What ma
Ethical Defaults: Why Designers Must Stop Hiding Behind Settings
Your privacy shouldn’t be a scavenger hunt hidden in settings menus. In the AI era, every default switch is an ethical stance—and too many companies still choose exploitation over trust. If you think “opt-out” equals user consent, think again...
AI remembers everything, the future of ethical design, the color reflex
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.“Imagine your best friend (we’ll call her Mary), had a perfect, infallible memory.At first, it feels wonderful. She remembers your favorite dishes, obscure movie quotes, even that exact shade of sweater you casually admired months ago. Dinner plans are effortless: “Booked us Giorgio’s again, your favorite — truffle ravioli and Cabernet, like last time,” Mary smiled warmly.But gradually, things become less appealing. Your attempts at va
Mind the story gap: Why great ideas fail without meaningful narratives
How powerful stories turn hidden value into something people can see, feel, and believe in.Continue reading on UX Collective »
Patterns your brain can’t unsee: Gestalt psychology in design
They are the invisible grammar behind every interface, the logic that makes visual language readable and coherent.Ebbinghaus illusion — Example created by Maxim KichWelcome, my dear reader! Perhaps, just like me, you’ve searched the internet for different sources about the Gestalt principles and found that there are many, each slightly different from the others. That’s why I decided to bring several of them together, analyze and group them, and highlight the fundamental ones, the core laws that
A practical framework for multi-actor B2B customer journey
Understanding and mapping B2B customer journeyThis article follows my previous one where I described B2B journeys as living ecosystems that are constantly changing. Based on this theoretical framework, I prepared an execution plan in our team, and this is what the content of the next article will be. I will present you with a step-by-step framework of how I proceeded when mapping the customer journey in five countries with multiple actors.I would like to emphasize that the following framework re
Don Norman’s Top Tips from the Design for the 21st Century Course
The design field is evolving. It’s been proven that aside from driving business success and delivering beautiful and successful products, design can be pivotal to solving complex human issues. For instance, GE Healthcare used Design Thinking to improve the MR scanner experience for children—which is oftentimes very unpleasant—and patient satisfaction rates went up 90%. As a designer, you have the opportunity to leverage your skillset and apply your design know-how to tackle major global challeng
The illusion of unmoderated UX testing
I’ve been testing the testing. Unmoderated and moderated UX tests with the same type of people on the same topic generate completely…Continue reading on UX Collective »
Dear LLM, here’s how my design system works
How to get production-ready code from AI by structuring Figma file, connecting your design system with Figma MCP, and writing better prompts.Image by the author, overview of Ivy Design System componentsRight, pull up a chair, grab your coffee. We need to talk about the new team member. They’re brilliant, frankly, work all hours and can write boilerplate code in their sleep. They’re also a bit… literal. This new team member is an AI agent, and it’s changing how we go from design to code.But here’
How to Supercharge Your Design Workflow with AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is exceedingly effective at processing large volumes of data; saying that, though, it still calls for human guidance when it comes to applying it in the world—not least since its impacts are impacts that humans will notice. Watch as AI Product Designer Ioana Teleanu introduces the two main types of AI research tools—insight generators and collaborators—and explains how you can apply them in UX research.[[video:1686]]As Ioana explained, what insight generators have as
How to Craft Effective Text Prompts for Design
If you’re going to collaborate seamlessly with Artificial Intelligence (AI), then you’ve got to master the art of effective communication and, with that, craft prompts that precisely guide the AI to the outcomes you want. Let's look at the complexities of prompt engineering and practical techniques on how to get the results we’re after.In this video, AI Product Designer Ioana Teleanu shares practical tips on how to create effective AI prompts.[[video:1665]]To create effective prompts for AI syst
How I approach micro-interactions. Let’s dive in!
Hey everyone! It’s been a long break since I’ve written about my micro-interactions or tutorials on how to create them. I promise to make…
Show HN: I built whatstype.org – a free personality test site
Hey HN,I recently built whatstype.org , a free personality test website that helps people explore their thinking, communication, and relationship patterns.Unlike most MBTI-style sites that only give you a short label, Whatstype digs deeper:The test adapts to your responses dynamicallyResults are structured around reasoning style, emotional pattern, and social interactionEach of the 16 personality types includes detailed analysis, strengths, challenges, and real-life adviceNo login, no tracking —
The Curious Tale Behind “The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog”
You’ve seen the sentence—“The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”—but did you know it’s been secretly running the alphabet game since 1885? From typewriters to font previews, this odd little pangram is the unsung hero of design and tech. Turns out, the fox didn’t just jump… it owned the keyboard.
The ship of Theseus paradox in AI-assisted writing
Turns out, the more feelings in your text, the weirder it feels to let AI touch it.The Ship of Theseus reimagined: a vessel where wooden planks are being replaced with silicon chips. Generated in Sora.I use AI writing tools the way most people use spellcheck: casually, constantly, almost without thought. A typo here, a phrasing fix there, a quick “make it flow better.” Over time, it’s become second nature that I write through the machine.And that’s not unusual. Grammarly alone reports over 40 mi
CSS Gamepad API Visual Debugging With CSS Layers
When you plug in a controller, you mash buttons, move the sticks, pull the triggers… and as a developer, you see none of it. The browser’s picking it up, sure, but unless you’re logging numbers in the console, it’s invisible. That’s the headache with the Gamepad API.It’s been around for years, and it’s actually pretty powerful. You can read buttons, sticks, triggers, the works. But most people don’t touch it. Why? Because there’s no feedback. No panel in developer tools. No clear way to know if
Enshittification by Design: Why Every Interface Turns Against You
Every website starts out loving you, then one day, it turns on you. Enshittification by Design exposes how beautiful, user-friendly interfaces quietly become manipulative tools built to trap you. It’s not a glitch in tech — it’s the business model, and designers are the ones making it irresistible.
Getting Strategic with Triangulation | Brett Kurjewski (Accelerant Research)
Listen now on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube.—Brett Krajewski is the Vice President of Research & Growth at Accelerant Research, where he leads the research and client solutions teams, delivering innovative insights to empower businesses and many fortune 500 companies. He was most recently featured on an episode of Awkward Silences Podcast, and has some upcoming webinars. With a career spanning both in-house industry roles and consulting/agency leadership, Brett has built and led high-per
Older Tech In The Browser Stack
I’ve been in front-end development long enough to see a trend over the years: younger developers working with a new paradigm of programming without understanding the historical context of it. It is, of course, perfectly understandable to not know something. The web is a very big place with a diverse set of skills and specialties, and we don’t always know what we don’t know. Learning in this field is an ongoing journey rather than something that happens once and ends.Case in point: Someone on my