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UX & Thinking

36 stories curated in ux & thinking.

UX & Thinking
UX Collective
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Dieter Rams avoids computers. His ten rules still fit designing for AI.

Dieter Rams' ten design rules remain relevant for designing artificial intelligence systems.

19 hours ago
UX & Thinking
UX Collective
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AI design isn’t ugly. It’s fluent — and that’s the problem.

AI-generated designs often exhibit a consistent visual language due to their shared algorithms and data sources.

2 days ago
UX & Thinking
UX Collective
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AI has become the third wheel

Artificial intelligence is increasingly integrated into human interactions and relationships.

2 days ago
UX & Thinking
UX Collective
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You’re still archiving. Your files have already become substrate.

Files serve a second function with a different architecture.

3 days ago
UX & Thinking
UX Collective
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The psychological cost of moving too fast

Rapid progress can have negative psychological effects on individuals and teams.

4 days ago
UX & Thinking
UX Collective
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Employment expiry and the end of workplace loyalty

Workplace loyalty is declining as employment expiry becomes more common.

4 days ago
UX & Thinking
UX Collective
Thinking

Your user doesn’t care about your organization chart

Users are unaffected by internal organizational structure and its potential flaws.

4 days ago
UX & Thinking
UX Collective
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AI meets Sturgeon’s Law

Increased content creation does not necessarily lead to higher quality output, as seen in Sturgeon's Law.

1 Jun
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UX Collective
Thinking

Foreman, guardian, team builder: all this is a box

A moving company's box design reveals the long-lasting impact of subtle design decisions.

1 Jun
UX & Thinking
UX Collective
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The register shift

Designers consider the impact of the register shift on user experience.

1 Jun
UX & Thinking
UX Collective
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AI Token Scarcity and Arcade Economics

Rising computing costs prompt designers to reevaluate their expectations.

31 May
UX & Thinking
UX Collective
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Who is your content actually for?

Designers consider the intended audience for their content creations.

31 May
UX & Thinking
UX Collective
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Designing for AI means designing like it’s 1999

Designing for artificial intelligence today mirrors the user experience challenges of designing for the internet in 1999, emphasizing the need for foundational usability.

29 May
UX & Thinking
UX Collective
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We haven’t lost the battle for Empathy. Have we?

Designers must prioritize presence and understanding people before creating for them.

27 May
UX & Thinking
UX Collective
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The trust gap between AI and humans

Designers can improve AI onboarding to prevent brilliant AI from being abandoned by users early on.

27 May
UX & Thinking
UX Collective
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Solutions journalism needs better conflict, not less of it

Solutions journalism benefits from more nuanced conflict, rather than avoiding it altogether.

27 May
UX & Thinking
UX Collective
Thinking

The permalink problem in AI chat

AI chat interfaces currently lack a standardized permalink feature, hindering the reliable sharing, referencing, and long-term organization of specific conversational threads and their contained information.

25 May
UX & Thinking
UX Collective
Thinking

How Grok guided me through the new Adobe color interface

GenAI navigation faces challenges in the new Adobe color interface.

25 May
UX & Thinking
UX Collective
Thinking

Is hot coral a feature or a liability? A closer look at the colour of your bank card.

Hot coral bank card color is examined as a potential feature or liability.

25 May
UX & Thinking
UX Collective
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Should we be kind to machines (for our own sake, really)?

Treating machines with kindness may have benefits for human users themselves.

16 May
UX & Thinking
UX Collective
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How to write a DESIGN.md file Claude can actually use

A DESIGN.md file should tell a story of the product to be useful.

16 May
UX & Thinking
UX Collective
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Opening your place to the street

Designers consider opening channels to upstream conversations in the age of AI.

16 May
UX & Thinking
UX Collective
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The undo problem in AI products

AI products often struggle with implementing effective undo functions.

16 May
Small by Design: The Strength of Lean Design-System Teams
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Small by Design: The Strength of Lean Design-System Teams

Lean design-system teams, when deliberately structured, can achieve greater speed, sharper prioritization, and scaled impact by fostering cohesion and minimizing coordination overhead.

15 May·9 min read
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