MINI COURSE: Creating Micro-Interactions in Framer
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Interactivity
A visual library of experimental buttons and micro-interactions in Figma
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Sustainable Web Design: Saving the Planet or Just a Marketing Gimmick?
Sustainable web design isn’t just a feel-good trend—it’s a necessity as bloated, inefficient sites contribute to massive energy waste. Cutting the fluff, optimizing performance, and rethinking design choices can create a web that’s not just greener, but also faster, smarter, and more user-friendly.
How Apple and Microsoft think differently
Apple and Microsoft never aimed for the same user but couldn’t avoid the same fight.Continue reading on UX Collective »
🗞 Futures for UX Research
UX research is shifting fast. AI changes where to focus your effort, nudging you from gathering data to driving real impact. That means sharpening strategic skills and working smarter with tools like ChatGPT to keep insights clear and useful. Whether you’re thinking about stepping into leadership or staying hands-on, you need to know what questions to ask yourself and how to move quickly without losing quality. This week, I’m sharing concrete steps to stay relevant and make your wo
CSS Cascade Layers Vs. BEM Vs. Utility Classes: Specificity Control
CSS is wild, really wild. And tricky. But let’s talk specifically about specificity.When writing CSS, it’s close to impossible that you haven’t faced the frustration of styles not applying as expected — that’s specificity. You applied a style, it worked, and later, you try to override it with a different style and… nothing, it just ignores you. Again, specificity.Sure, there’s the option of resorting to !important flags, but like all developers before us, it’s always risky and discouraged. It’s
How LinkedIn passed $2bn in subscription revenue
And they’re still missing out on their potentialContinue reading on UX Collective »
AI Is Here — Where Is Seaman?
AI is here — so where is Seaman?We need software and stories and tools that don’t promise utility but deliver unease.Image AI Generated (Midjourney)Before the panic about AI became an ambient hum in our daily lives, it arrived in stranger, funnier, more unsettling form. Before voice assistants became household fixtures and AI crept into the rhythms of our daily lives, long before Siri chimed in from the kitchen counter or Alexa responded to timers and trivia, a creature with the bored expression
Show HN: BrandifyIt – AI-Powered Platform for Automated Content (Crowdfunding)
Hello HN,I’m excited to share our work on BrandifyIt – an AI-powered platform designed to radically streamline the digital content creation process. We built BrandifyIt to tackle the endless challenges of manual content generation by leveraging cutting-edge machine learning algorithms. The idea is simple: use AI to produce creative, on-brand copy fast, efficiently, and at scale.What it does:Automated Content Generation: Our system learns your brand’s tone and style to generate high-quality, tail
The User Research Round-up: CW25
Hello curious human!I finally did it. I had my first real surfing accident and am currently in a cycle of elevating, icing, and wishing my foot would magically heal. I came down pretty hard on my right foot when dismounting my surfboard the other day. I decided to head to A&E when the pain got pretty bad as I was nervous I’d broken or fractured something.But after a 4.5 hour wait (10:30pm to 3am - I am not built for staying up that late), I gave up and hobbled back home. There was no c
Meet Accessible UX Research, A Brand-New Smashing Book
UX research can take so much of the guesswork out of the design process! But it’s easy to forget just how different people are and how their needs and preferences can vary. We can’t predict the needs of every user, but we shouldn’t expect different people using the product in roughly the same way. That’s how we end up with an incomplete, inaccurate, or simply wrong picture of our customers.There is no shortage of accessibility checklists and guidelines. But accessibility isn’t a checklist. It do
Web Design Will Become the Art of Profiling the User
The next evolution of web design isn’t about looks — it’s about knowing you better than you know yourself. Get ready for a future where websites don’t just personalize your experience — they profile your soul in real-time. Creepy? Absolutely. Unstoppable? Even more so.
Avoiding UX malpractice
Diagnosing UX problems through Garrett’s Elements of User Experience.You walk into a doctor’s office with sharp stomach pain. You describe your symptoms in great detail, outlining all the issues and how they’re impacting you. The doctor patiently listens, then says, “I have just the thing. BRB.” After a few moments, the doc returns and hands you a little bottle. “Try this,” they say. “It works for most people.” You look at the bottle, and it’s a basic, over the counter pain killer.You leave with
AI needs a new UI
For AI to succeed, we’ll need to devise new interface patterns that support its capabilities rather than copy those patterns of the technology it seeks to replace.As the joke goes, the best place to hide a body is on the 2nd page of google results. No one clicks to the next page.The Google search paradigmGoogle built the paradigm for all of search around an extremely simple user experience: user asks a simple question (search query) and Google serves up relevant results in the first few entries.
Adapting the Value Proposition Canvas to Communicate Research Value
Photo by Headway on UnsplashWorking in UX has given me the opportunity to collaborate closely with teams across an organization to design and launch products. Along the way, I’ve learned some of the approaches my cross-functional colleagues use in their work. One such approach is the Value Proposition Canvas, a classic tool that helps teams define the unique value a product brings to a specific customer. Years later after learning about this tool, I found a unique way to adapt it to explain the
How to define a distinctive design language
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What can you do if your boss starts generating AI designs?
How to work with teams that turn to AI instead of UXContinue reading on UX Collective »
The 5-step AI UX playbook to deliver high-impact products
Strategic considerations when crafting AI experiences that drive material improvements for customers.With everyone rushing to create AI experiences, are products truly hitting the mark? As UX leaders, it’s a privilege to shape product direction. Part of that means thinking about how AI shows up in our experiences and what it actually means for our users.A recipe for launching transformative AIIt’s not enough to just have AI features anymore. It’s a costly endeavor and, when executed poorly, crea
How micro-interactions improve user experience
What are micro-interactions?
Framer X Microinteractions Animation for iOS Todoist Keyboard
Designing micro interactions in Framer X is easy and fast. It’s still a prototype but in a smaller world. Same principles apply. Frames…