Interactivity
Good designers, bad websites: a proposal
I want to discuss accessibility because it is the most important thing for making websites. Other A List Apart articles give you innovation and insight. This article will give you homework. These are just my personal views, but they’re pretty good.I want to start off with a couple of statements, and you will agree:Designers are good people. I have never heard a designer say, “I don’t care if somebody can’t read this text”, “Not my fault if somebody can’t use this device”, or “Who cares if this i
A Good Move is Grounded
When you approach a piece of product work, how do you tell if it's good? Better yet, since there will always be problems — how do you find where it needs the most work?Evaluating client work-in-flight, I start with four criteria to sense where the problems may lie. Consider each piece of work as one move in the game you're looking at. A good move is:Bounded(last week): composed of a set of steps; has a clear endpoint.Grounded (this week): targets concrete relationships; carries
Bottle your judgment, Chat is the wrong UI, Design.md
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.“Right now I’m helping build software whose whole job is to package how one particular person thinks. The point is not to have this product replace anyone’s thinking with hers, but to take the way she works through a hard decision, the method she’s spent a career building, and hand it to anyone.We are, in the plainest terms, productizing a person.If that gave you a little Black Mirror chill, good. This isn’t science fiction. It’s a muc
Why your clients aren’t buying and how to change that
You know it’s the right thing to do. The data screams it. Yet they still say no. Here’s the playbook that actually works.Continue reading on UX Collective »
The side of the egg
On the next hack for us, in the age of AIContinue reading on UX Collective »
The loom that raised its hand
90 years of loom engineering went into teaching machines to catch their mistakes.Continue reading on UX Collective »
Thinking outside the box (literally)
How AI agents started escaping their sandboxes, and why the next frontier may be outside language altogether.Image generated using Grok Imagine.In July, models developed by OpenAI escaped a cybersecurity evaluation environment, reached the public internet and eventually compromised the production infrastructure of Hugging Face, one of the largest platforms for open-source AI models and datasets. Days later, Anthropic disclosed that three Claude models had reached real organisations during suppos
Show HN: Prompt optimizer for vibe-coding with LLMs
I’ve been working on a small tool aimed at reducing prompt friction in vibe-coding workflows.In practice, a lot of iteration comes from underspecified prompts: missing constraints, unclear scope, implicit assumptions, or mixed intent. This tool takes a rough, natural-language description of what you want to build and rewrites it into a more explicit, structured prompt with clearer requirements and context before it’s sent to the model.The focus is on:Making intent, constraints, and assumptions e
Show HN: Choreo A free visual design tool for UI behavior and micro-interactions
Hi HN, I’m Anas. I’ve spent a decade as a Product design engineer. Recently I got laid off from my job (for the first time ever in my career) so in this free time, I decided to build Choreo because I noticed the handoff for UI motion is broken. Figma is great for structure and design, but for behavior, we usually resort to linear video timelines (like After Effects and Figma motion) or faking it in prototypes, leaving engineers to guess the keyframes. I wanted a native canvas where you design st
How the Best UX Design Teams Integrate Personas into Agile Workflows
You've seen it countless times: Agile teams racing through sprints while personas gather dust in forgotten folders (or never get created at all). The promise of user-centered design crashes into the reality of two-week deadlines. But what if you could harness both? Build at startup speed while truly understanding your users. Transform "as a user, I want..." into "Sarah needs this because..." and watch engagement soar, revenue climb, and churn vanish. Your products will become indispensable to us
How Baseline Can Help You Ship Less JavaScript
Most of us install a dependency once and never look at it again. It does its job, the tests pass, and we move on. But the web platform keeps moving too, and a surprising number of the libraries sitting in your package.json today are now built into the browser.In a typical mid-sized JavaScript app, you can often find somewhere between 60KB and 90KB (minified and gzipped) of dependencies that the platform can now handle on its own. Date and number formatting, HTTP requests, modals, tooltips, deep
What Star Trek got wrong about AI (so far)
The show imagined one of them. We built the other kind, by the million.We got something stranger — copyable, fluent, confidently wrong, and already in over a billion pockets. Here is where the fiction and the field diverged.Star Trek spent six decades building the culture’s most detailed picture of living with machine intelligence. Talking computers, synthetic crew members, ship minds that run the whole vessel. A lot of it landed — the communicator became the flip phone, the tricorder haunts eve
Design @ ACME
<div class="medium-feed-item"><p class="medium-feed-image"><a href="https://uxdesign.cc/design-acme-9d0cffa8af51?source=rss----138adf9c44c---4"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2496/1*AEeqcnWN85TwUoJJ-EAdLQ.png" width="2496"></a></p><p class="medium-feed-snippet">Be better</p><p class="medium-feed-link"><a href="https://uxdesign.cc/design-acme-9d0cffa8af51?source=rss----138adf9c44c---4">Continue reading on UX Collective »</a></p></div>
The cybernetic application
How can we build systems where information goes to live?Systems thinker Stafford Beer said that “The purpose of a system is what it does.” A purpose (among several) of our information systems is, therefore, to sow confusion and disorientation among our ideas, leaving them disorganized, lost, and abandoned. The cybernetic application is one that — by it’s nature — helps the user avoid such errors.To be more specific, applications for writing and organizing demand a tax in the form of confused, mi
Protecting your research does not mean breaking your relationships | Priyanka Kuvalekar, Microsoft
The difference between being a researcher people rely on and a researcher people build withI have spent a lot of my career being the person who shows up to the meeting, sits at the table, and somehow still feels like a guest at it. You know the version of this, where everyone is aware research exists, they will happily call you when something needs validating, and yet none of the actual product decisions seem to happen anywhere near you. I have come to think this is one of the quietest career tr
Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere
Hey y’all, Kartik, Ishaan, and Christian from Omnara (https://www.omnara.com/) here. We’re building a web and mobile agentic IDE for Claude Code and Codex that lets you run and interact with coding agents from anywhere. Omnara lets you run Claude Code and Codex sessions on your own machine, and exposes those sessions through a web and mobile interface so you can stay involved even when you’re away from your desk. Think of it like Claude Code Desktop or Conductor, except you can co
Show HN: Axletic – a local-first workout tracker for iPhone
Hi HN,I built Axletic, a native iPhone workout tracker focused on making workout logging feel quick and uncomplicated. I drew a lot of inspiration from clean, dark themed apps such as Linear. I felt like a lot of fitness apps out there were too complicated to get started with, messy UI, too many settings etc.This one is made for people that just want to log what they do and understand how it is going. Kinda like a notes app for workout tracking.The core idea is that recording a workout should no
The Limits of Today's AI Systems
Recently, I’ve increasingly come to believe that intelligence is no longer AI’s bottleneck. The systems we build around it are.
Input Paradox (1)
The first issue is the input paradox. When interacting with AI, if the prompt is highly detailed, the model tends to overfit to the user’s framing and assumptions. If it is too concise, the model lacks the context needed to generate something truly useful.
This creates a paradox: to preserve the model’s independent reasoning, you should say less — but
Show HN: SprintPulse – AI-powered retrospectives that drive action
Hi HN,I am the founder of SprintPulse. Like many of you, I used to dread retrospective meetings. They often turned into a repetitive cycle where we wrote down the same issues every sprint but never actually fixed them. "Better communication" was on our action item list for months.I built SprintPulse to fix that loop. It is a tool designed not just to collect feedback, but to make sure it leads to real change.When I looked at the tools available, I found they fell into two camps.On one
Show HN: Sushidata – automating the painful parts of competitor and VoC research
Hi HN,A few months ago we noticed a pattern. Every GTM, product, and marketing team we talked to had the same problem. They were drowning in external data from Reddit, Discord, Slack communities, competitor sites, and social channels. But turning all of that noise into something structured and useful took an enormous amount of time.We watched people spend days copying screenshots into spreadsheets, tagging posts, and checking competitor websites by hand. We were doing the same thing ourselves an